Starting with a similarity function between objects, it is possible to define a distance metric (the kernel distance) on pairs of objects, and more generally on probability distr...
Sarang C. Joshi, Raj Varma Kommaraju, Jeff M. Phil...
We describe a technique for comparing distributions without the need for density estimation as an intermediate step. Our approach relies on mapping the distributions into a reprodu...
Alexander J. Smola, Arthur Gretton, Le Song, Bernh...
Background: The joint analysis of several categorical variables is a common task in many areas of biology, and is becoming central to systems biology investigations whose goal is ...
Corinne Dahinden, Giovanni Parmigiani, Mark C. Eme...
Background: Recently, Almeida and Vinga offered a new approach for the representation of arbitrary discrete sequences, referred to as Universal Sequence Maps (USM), and discussed ...
In recent years analysis of complexity of learning Gaussian mixture models from sampled data has received significant attention in computational machine learning and theory commun...