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a theory of similarity functions for learning and clustering

similarity functions are crucial in various machine learning tasks, particularly in clustering, classification, and information retrieval. they define how similar or dissimilar two data points are, which directly influences the performance of many algorithms.

key concepts

1. **similarity vs. dissimilarity**:
similarity functions return a higher value when two items are more alike.
dissimilarity functions (or distance functions) return lower values for more similar items.

2. **types of similarity functions**:
**cosine similarity**: measures the cosine of the angle between two non-zero vectors.
**euclidean distance**: the straight-line distance between two points in euclidean space.
**jaccard similarity**: used for comparing the similarity of two sets.
**manhattan distance**: the sum of the absolute differences of their coordinates.
**kernel functions**: used in support vector machines and other algorithms to transform data into higher dimensions.

3. **applications**:
clustering (e.g., k-means, hierarchical clustering).
nearest neighbor search.
collaborative filtering in recommendation systems.

code example

let’s implement a simple clustering algorithm using different similarity functions. we’ll use k-means clustering as an example.

python code example



explanation of the code

1. **data generation**: we generate synthetic data using `make_blobs`, which creates clusters of points.

2. **k-means clustering**:
we first apply k-means with the default euclidean distance.
we then normalize the data to unit vectors to perform clustering based on cosine similarity.

3. **plotting**: we define a `plot_clusters` function to visualize the clusters formed. the first plot shows clusters based on euclidean distance, while the second plot shows clusters based on cosine similarity.

choosing the right similarity function

the choice of similarity ...

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