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Probabilistic k-nearest neighbour (PKNN) classification has been introduced to improve the performance of original k-nearest neighbour (KNN) classification algorithm by explicitly modelling uncertainty in the classification of each feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Ji Won Yoon , Nial Friel

K-nearest neighbors (KNN) is one of the earliest and most established algorithms in machine learning. For regression tasks, KNN averages the targets within a neighborhood which poses a number of challenges: the neighborhood definition is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Youssef Nader , Leon Sixt , Tim Landgraf

The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) is a basic machine learning (ML) algorithm, and several quantum versions of it, employing different distance metrics, have been presented in the last few years. Although the Euclidean distance is one of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

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

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

The k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) query over moving objects on road networks is essential for location-based services. Recently, this problem has been studied under road networks with distance as the metric, overlooking fluctuating travel costs.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mingjin Tao , Kailin Jiao , Yawen Li , Wei Liu , Ziqiang Yu

Near neighbor search (NNS) is a powerful abstraction for data access; however, data indexing is troublesome even for approximate indexes. For intrinsically high-dimensional data, high-quality fast searches demand either indexes with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Eric S. Tellez , Guillermo Ruiz , Edgar Chavez , Mario Graff

Our aim is to develop dynamic data structures that support $k$-nearest neighbors ($k$-NN) queries for a set of $n$ point sites in the plane in $O(f(n) + k)$ time, where $f(n)$ is some polylogarithmic function of $n$. The key component is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Sarita de Berg , Frank Staals

The problem of identifying the k-Nearest Neighbors (kNNS) of a point has proven to be very useful both as a standalone application and as a subroutine in larger applications. Given its far-reaching applicability in areas such as machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Vani Nagarajan , Durga Mandarapu , Milind Kulkarni

Perhaps the most straightforward classifier in the arsenal or machine learning techniques is the Nearest Neighbour Classifier -- classification is achieved by identifying the nearest neighbours to a query example and using those neighbours…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Padraig Cunningham , Sarah Jane Delany

Demands for minimum parameter setup in machine learning models are desirable to avoid time-consuming optimization processes. The $k$-Nearest Neighbors is one of the most effective and straightforward models employed in numerous problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Danilo Samuel Jodas , Leandro Aparecido Passos , Ahsan Adeel , João Paulo Papa

The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classification rule has proven extremely successful in countless many computer vision applications. For example, image categorization often relies on uniform voting among the nearest prototypes in the space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-01-11 Paolo Piro , Richard Nock , Frank Nielsen , Michel Barlaud

Nearest neighbor search has found numerous applications in machine learning, data mining and massive data processing systems. The past few years have witnessed the popularity of the graph-based nearest neighbor search paradigm because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hongya Wang , Zhizheng Wang , Wei Wang , Yingyuan Xiao , Zeng Zhao , Kaixiang Yang

k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search is a fundamental primitive in geometry processing and computer graphics. While spatial partitioning structures such as kd-trees are standard, they are often manifold-blind, failing to exploit the intrinsic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Wang , Qinghao Guo , Haisen Zhao , Shiqing Xin , Shuangmin Chen , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

In machine learning, crowdsourcing is an economical way to label a large amount of data. However, the noise in the produced labels may deteriorate the accuracy of any classification method applied to the labelled data. We propose an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jiexin Duan , Xingye Qiao , Guang Cheng

Recommendation systems aim to provide personalized predictions by identifying items that are most appealing to individual users. Among various recommendation approaches, k-nearest-neighbor (kNN)-based collaborative filtering (CF) remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongyu Wang

Aggregating different image features for image retrieval has recently shown its effectiveness. While highly effective, though, the question of how to uplift the impact of the best features for a specific query image persists as an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Leulseged Tesfaye Alemu , Marcello Pelillo

Developing increasingly efficient and accurate algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search is a paramount goal in modern information retrieval. A primary approach to addressing this question is clustering, which involves partitioning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Thomas Vecchiato

A critical piece of the modern information retrieval puzzle is approximate nearest neighbor search. Its objective is to return a set of $k$ data points that are closest to a query point, with its accuracy measured by the proportion of exact…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Thomas Vecchiato , Claudio Lucchese , Franco Maria Nardini , Sebastian Bruch

In many scientific disciplines structures in high-dimensional data have to be found, e.g., in stellar spectra, in genome data, or in face recognition tasks. In this work we present a novel approach to non-linear dimensionality reduction. It…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-09-27 Oliver Kramer