Lipschitz Continuity of Mahalanobis Distances and Bilinear Forms

4 Apr 2016  ·  Valentina Zantedeschi, Rémi Emonet, Marc Sebban ·

Many theoretical results in the machine learning domain stand only for functions that are Lipschitz continuous. Lipschitz continuity is a strong form of continuity that linearly bounds the variations of a function. In this paper, we derive tight Lipschitz constants for two families of metrics: Mahalanobis distances and bounded-space bilinear forms. To our knowledge, this is the first time the Mahalanobis distance is formally proved to be Lipschitz continuous and that such tight Lipschitz constants are derived.

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