Euclidean distance with weights

Question

I am currently using SciPy to calculate the euclidean distance

dis = scipy.spatial.distance.euclidean(A,B)

where; A, B are 5-dimension bit vectors. It works fine now, but if I add weights for each dimension then, is it still possible to use scipy?

What I have now: sqrt((a1-b1)^2 + (a2-b2)^2 +...+ (a5-b5)^2)

What I want: sqrt(w1(a1-b1)^2 + w2(a2-b2)^2 +...+ w5(a5-b5)^2) using scipy or numpy or any other efficient way to do this.

Thanks

Answer 1

The suggestion of writing your own weighted L2 norm is a good one, but the calculation provided in this answer is incorrect. If the intention is to calculate

then this should do the job:

def weightedL2(a,b,w):
    q = a-b
    return np.sqrt((w*q*q).sum())

Answer 2

Simply define it yourself. Something like this should do the trick:

def mynorm(A, B, w):
    import numpy as np
    q = np.matrix(w * (A - B))
    return np.sqrt((q * q.T).sum())