Unverified
2026
Landmark Distance-Profile Adapter
Add a metric-aware front end that represents an arbitrary object x by its distances to a fixed set of reference objects rather than forcing x into a Euclidean or Hilbert embedding. Feed the resulting profile through a learned projection and concatenate it with the ordinary neural representation. This should be useful for graphs, trees, distributions, and sets where generic vectorization loses geometry or requires an expensive object-specific encoder.
Paper: Distance Profile Embedding for Independence and Conditional Independence Testing of Random Objects
arXiv:2607.28981