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Table 1 Notations and definitions in hypergraph learning model

From: Attribute-enhanced metric learning for face retrieval

Notation

Definition

G=(V,E,ω)

Hypergraph of a face image set containing n images and m attributes.

V={v1,v2,…,v n }

The set of vertices.

E={e1,e2,…,e m }

The set of hyperedges.

ω(e i )

The weight of the hyperedge e i . \(\sum _{i=1}^{m} \omega (e_{i})=1\) and ω(e i )≥0.

W

The diagonal matrix of the hyperedge weights.

h(v i ,e i )

The incidence between a pair of vertex v i and hyperedge e i .

H

The incidence matrix of the hypergraph.

δ(e i )

The degree of the hyperedge e i .

D e

The diagonal matrix of the hyperedge degrees.

d(v i )

The degree of the vertex v i .

D v

The diagonal matrix of the vertex degrees.

Y={Y i,j ,1≤i,j≤n}

The source similarity matrix. Y i,j represents the distance between image i and image j. y k denotes a column of Y.

F={F i,j ,1≤i,j≤n}

The target similarity matrix. F i,j represents the reformed distance between image i and image j. f k denotes a column of F.