Learning Riemannian Metrics

10/19/2012

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by   Guy Lebanon, et al.

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We propose a solution to the problem of estimating a Riemannian metric associated with a given differentiable manifold. The metric learning problem is based on minimizing the relative volume of a given set of points. We derive the details for a family of metrics on the multinomial simplex. The resulting metric has applications in text classification and bears some similarity to TFIDF representation of text documents.