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hemimetric

noun

Etymology

From hemi- + metric.

  1. derived from metricus
  2. derived from métrique
  3. prefixed as hemimetric — “hemi + metric”

Definitions

  1. An abstraction of distance

    An abstraction of distance; a function, d, with two arguments that satisfies d(x,x) = 0 and d(x, y) + d(y,z) ≥ d(x,z) (the triangle inequality) for all x,y,z in the domain.

    • Without exploiting structural constraints of the hemimetric polytope, learning the distances between each pair of items requires #92;Theta(n²) queries.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hemimetric. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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