Glossary term
Glossary term
Evaluation and Benchmarks
A measure of the relative similarity of two distributions. The lower the earth mover's distance, the more similar the distributions.
Created for this library
A research team uses earth mover's distance to compare predicted and ground-truth probability distributions over ordered classes like risk tiers.
A computer vision team uses earth mover's distance as a loss function for color histogram matching in style transfer.
An NLP team uses earth mover's distance to compare document topic distributions across two corpora.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License