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Many existing covariate shift adaptation methods estimate sample weights given to loss values to mitigate the gap between the source and the target distribution. However, estimating the optimal weights typically involves computationally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-01 François Portier , Lionel Truquet , Ikko Yamane

The k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classification approach is conceptually simple - yet widely applied since it often performs well in practical applications. However, using a global constant k does not always provide an optimal solution, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mark Kibanov , Martin Becker , Juergen Mueller , Martin Atzmueller , Andreas Hotho , Gerd Stumme

The nearest neighbor (NN) technique is very simple, highly efficient and effective in the field of pattern recognition, text categorization, object recognition etc. Its simplicity is its main advantage, but the disadvantages can't be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-02 Nitin Bhatia , Vandana

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

k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) method is a simple and popular statistical method for classification and regression. For both classification and regression problems, existing works have shown that, if the distribution of the feature vector has…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Puning Zhao , Lifeng Lai

Nearest neighbor is a popular nonparametric method for classification and regression with many appealing properties. In the big data era, the sheer volume and spatial/temporal disparity of big data may prohibit centrally processing and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Jiexin Duan , Xingye Qiao , Guang Cheng

k is the most important parameter in a text categorization system based on k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm (kNN).In the classification process, k nearest documents to the test one in the training set are determined firstly. Then, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Baoli Li , Shiwen Yu , Qin Lu

The k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) classification algorithm is one of the most widely-used lazy classifiers because of its simplicity and ease of implementation. It is considered to be an effective classifier and has many applications. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Stefanos Ougiaroglou , Georgios Evangelidis , Dimitris A. Dervos

Nonparametric learning is a fundamental concept in machine learning that aims to capture complex patterns and relationships in data without making strong assumptions about the underlying data distribution. Owing to simplicity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Amartya Banerjee , Christopher J. Hazard , Jacob Beel , Cade Mack , Jack Xia , Michael Resnick , Will Goddin

Trustworthiness in model predictions is crucial for safety-critical applications in the real world. However, deep neural networks often suffer from the issues of uncertainty estimation, such as miscalibration. In this study, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Wataru Hashimoto , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) is one of the most used ML classifiers. However, if we observe closely, standard distance-weighted KNN and relative variants assume all 'k' neighbors are equally reliable. In heterogeneous feature space, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Kumarjit Pathak , Karthik K , Sachin Madan , Jitin Kapila

The K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm is widely used for classification and regression; however, it suffers from limitations, including the equal treatment of all samples. We propose Information-Modified KNN (IM-KNN), a novel approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Mohammad Ali Vahedifar , Azim Akhtarshenas , Mohammad Mohammadi Rafatpanah , Maryam Sabbaghian

The $k$-nearest neighbour ($k$-NN) classifier is one of the oldest and most important supervised learning algorithms for classifying datasets. Traditionally the Euclidean norm is used as the distance for the $k$-NN classifier. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-02 Stan Hatko

This paper presents a new solution for choosing the K parameter in the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm, the solution depending on the idea of ensemble learning, in which a weak KNN classifier is used each time with a different K,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Ahmad Basheer Hassanat , Mohammad Ali Abbadi , Ghada Awad Altarawneh , Ahmad Ali Alhasanat

Nearest Neighbors Algorithm is a Lazy Learning Algorithm, in which the algorithm tries to approximate the predictions with the help of similar existing vectors in the training dataset. The predictions made by the K-Nearest Neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Chandrasekaran Anirudh Bhardwaj , Megha Mishra , Kalyani Desikan

In this paper we introduce a simple and intuitive adaptive k nearest neighbours classifier, and explore its utility within the context of bootstrap aggregating ("bagging"). The approach is based on finding discriminant subspaces which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 David P. Hofmeyr

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

This paper proposes an inexpensive way to learn an effective dissimilarity function to be used for $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) classification. Unlike Mahalanobis metric learning methods that map both query (unlabeled) objects and labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Yutaro Shigeto , Masashi Shimbo , Yuji Matsumoto

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

A non-parametric k-nearest neighbour based entropy estimator is proposed. It improves on the classical Kozachenko-Leonenko estimator by considering non-uniform probability densities in the region of k-nearest neighbours around each sample…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Damiano Lombardi , Sanjay Pant