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Anomaly detection aims at identifying images that deviate significantly from the norm. We focus on algorithms that embed the normal training examples in space and when given a test image, detect anomalies based on the features distance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ori Nizan , Ayellet Tal

Graph-based algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in the nearest neighbor search (NN-Search) problem. These empirical successes urge the need for theoretical results that guarantee the search quality and efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Anshumali Shrivastava , Zhao Song , Zhaozhuo Xu

The traditional k nearest neighbor (kNN) approach uses a distance formula within a spherical region to determine the k closest training observations to a test sample point. However, this approach may not work well when test point is located…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-19 Amjad Ali , Zardad Khan , Dost Muhammad Khan , Saeed Aldahmani

In this technical note, we introduce and analyze AWNN: an adaptively weighted nearest neighbor method for performing matrix completion. Nearest neighbor (NN) methods are widely used in missing data problems across multiple disciplines such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 Tathagata Sadhukhan , Manit Paul , Raaz Dwivedi

In the k-nearest neighbor algorithm (k-NN), the determination of classes for test instances is usually performed via a majority vote system, which may ignore the similarities among data. In this research, the researcher proposes an approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jasper Kyle Catapang

This paper introduces the innovative Power Muirhead Mean K-Nearest Neighbors (PMM-KNN) algorithm, a novel data classification approach that combines the K-Nearest Neighbors method with the adaptive Power Muirhead Mean operator. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Kourosh Shahnazari , Seyed Moein Ayyoubzadeh

Nearest neighbors is a successful and long-standing technique for anomaly detection. Significant progress has been recently achieved by self-supervised deep methods (e.g. RotNet). Self-supervised features however typically under-perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Liron Bergman , Niv Cohen , Yedid Hoshen

Nearest neighbor is a popular class of classification methods with many desirable properties. For a large data set which cannot be loaded into the memory of a single machine due to computation, communication, privacy, or ownership…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-01 Xingye Qiao , Jiexin Duan , Guang Cheng

We present a simple few-shot named entity recognition (NER) system based on nearest neighbor learning and structured inference. Our system uses a supervised NER model trained on the source domain, as a feature extractor. Across several test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yi Yang , Arzoo Katiyar

The popularity of Artificial intelligence and machine learning have prompted researchers to use it in the recent researches. The proposed method uses K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) algorithm for segmentation of medical images, extracting of image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Ayesha Heena , Nagashettappa Biradar , Najmuddin M. Maroof , Surbhi Bhatia , Rashmi Agarwal , Kanta Prasad

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensions is an integral part of several computer vision systems and gains importance in deep learning with explicit memory representations. Since PQT, FAISS, and SONG started to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Fabian Groh , Lukas Ruppert , Patrick Wieschollek , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Computing $k$-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) is one of the core kernels used in many machine learning, data mining and scientific computing applications. Although kd-tree based $O(\log n)$ algorithms have been proposed for computing KNN, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish , Narayanan Sundaram , Jialin Liu , Peter Sadowski , Evan Racah , Suren Byna , Craig Tull , Wahid Bhimji , Prabhat , Pradeep Dubey

We consider machine learning in a comparison-based setting where we are given a set of points in a metric space, but we have no access to the actual distances between the points. Instead, we can only ask an oracle whether the distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-06 Siavash Haghiri , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Ulrike von Luxburg

Efficient index structures for fast approximate nearest neighbor queries are required in many applications such as recommendation systems. In high-dimensional spaces, many conventional methods suffer from excessive usage of memory and slow…

We suggest a robust nearest-neighbor approach to classifying high-dimensional data. The method enhances sensitivity by employing a threshold and truncates to a sequence of zeros and ones in order to reduce the deleterious impact of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-02 Yao-ban Chan , Peter Hall

The $k$-nearest neighbor graph (KNNG) on high-dimensional data is a data structure widely used in many applications such as similarity search, dimension reduction and clustering. Due to its increasing popularity, several methods under the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Liu Yingfan , Cheng Hong , Cui Jiangtao

Feature correspondence selection is pivotal to many feature-matching based tasks in computer vision. Searching for spatially k-nearest neighbors is a common strategy for extracting local information in many previous works. However, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Chen Zhao , Zhiguo Cao , Chi Li , Xin Li , Jiaqi Yang

Feature means countenance, remote sensing scene objects with similar characteristics, associated to interesting scene elements in the image formation process. They are classified into three types in image processing, that is low, middle and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-18 T. Dharani , I. Laurence Aroquiaraj

Consider a weighted or unweighted k-nearest neighbor graph that has been built on n data points drawn randomly according to some density p on R^d. We study the convergence of the shortest path distance in such graphs as the sample size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Morteza Alamgir , Ulrike von Luxburg

Neighborhood finders and nearest neighbor queries are fundamental parts of sampling based motion planning algorithms. Using different distance metrics or otherwise changing the definition of a neighborhood produces different algorithms with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Stav Ashur , Nancy M. Amato , Sariel Har-Peled