Do all roads lead to Rome? Studying distance measures in the context of machine learning

This work has been supported by the National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation of the Spanish Government (Grant PID2019-109238GB, subprojects C21 and C22), by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant FPI PRE2020-092608), and by the Xunta de Galicia (Grant ED431C 2022/44) with the European Union ERDF funds. CITIC, as Research Center accredited by Galician University System, is funded by “Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidades from Xunta de Gali- cia”, supported in an 80% through ERDF Funds, ERDF Operational Programme Galicia 2014-2020, and the remaining 20% by “Secretaría Xeral de Universidades” (Grant ED431G 2019/01).