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Online Estimation of Similarity Matrices with Incomplete Data

2 Jul 2023Thirty-Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2023 7archive 2025-07-28

Fangchen Yu, Yicheng Zeng, Jianfeng Mao, Wenye Li

The similarity matrix measures pairwise similarities between a set of data points and is an essential concept in data processing, routinely used in practical applications. Obtaining a similarity matrix is typically straightforward when data points are completely observed. However, incomplete observations can make it challenging to obtain a high-quality similarity matrix, which becomes even more complex in online data. To address this challenge, we propose matrix correction algorithms that leverage the positive semi-definiteness (PSD) of the similarity matrix to improve similarity estimation in both offline and online scenarios. Our approaches have a solid theoretical guarantee of performance and excellent potential for parallel execution on large-scale data. Empirical evaluations demonstrate their high effectiveness and efficiency with significantly improved results over classical imputation-based methods, benefiting downstream applications with superior performance. Our code is available at https://github.com/CUHKSZ-Yu/OnMC.

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