Efficient Sketches for Earth-Mover Distance, with Applications
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Author(s) • • •
Indyk, Piotr
Woodruff, David
Do Ba, Khanh
Andoni, Alexandr
Date Issued
March 2010
Journal
50th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2009. FOCS '09
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
Andoni, A. et al. “Efficient Sketches for Earth-Mover Distance, with Applications.” Foundations of Computer Science, 2009. FOCS '09. 50th Annual IEEE Symposium on. 2009. 324-330. © 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Abstract
We provide the first sub-linear sketching algorithm for estimating the planar Earth-Mover Distance with a constant approximation. For sets living in the two-dimensional grid [Δ][superscript 2], we achieve space ΔE for approximation O(1/E), for any desired 0 < E < 1. Our sketch has immediate applications to the streaming and nearest neighbor search problems.
Subjects
Earth-Mover Distance
embedding
sketching
streaming
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/focs.2009.25