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SUBMITTER: Yu YW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4591002 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Y William YW Daniels Noah M NM Danko David Christian DC Berger Bonnie B
Cell systems 20150801 2
Many data sets exhibit well-defined structure that can be exploited to design faster search tools, but it is not always clear when such acceleration is possible. Here we introduce a framework for similarity search based on characterizing a data set's entropy and fractal dimension. We prove that searching scales in time with metric entropy (number of covering hyperspheres), if the fractal dimension of the data set is low, and scales in space with the sum of metric entropy and information-theoreti ...[more]