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Approximate $k$-nearest neighbor search (A$k$-NNS) is a core operation in vector databases, underpinning applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and image retrieval. In these scenarios, users often prefer diverse result…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jiachen Zhao , Xiao Yan , Eric Lo

The k-nearest neighbors (kNN) algorithm is a cornerstone of non-parametric classification in artificial intelligence, yet its deployment in large-scale applications is persistently constrained by the computational trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jiaye Li , Gang Chen , Hang Xu , Shichao Zhang

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

K-Nearest Neighbours (k-NN) is a popular classification and regression algorithm, yet one of its main limitations is the difficulty in choosing the number of neighbours. We present a Bayesian algorithm to compute the posterior probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Giuseppe Nuti

Big data mining is well known to be an important task for data science, because it can provide useful observations and new knowledge hidden in given large datasets. Proximity-based data analysis is particularly utilized in many real-life…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Daichi Amagata , Yusuke Arai , Sumio Fujita , Takahiro Hara

$K$-NN classifier is one of the most famous classification algorithms, whose performance is crucially dependent on the distance metric. When we consider the distance metric as a parameter of $K$-NN, learning an appropriate distance metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kun Song

The reverse $k$ nearest neighbor query finds all points that have the query point as one of their $k$ nearest neighbors, where the $k$NN query finds the $k$ closest points to its query point. Based on conics, we propose an efficent R$k$NN…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Lixin Ye

Searching for the $k$-nearest neighbors (KNN) in multimodal data retrieval is computationally expensive, particularly due to the inherent difficulty in comparing similarity measures across different modalities. Recent advances in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Chengyu Gong , Gefei Shen , Luanzheng Guo , Nathan Tallent , Dongfang Zhao

Reverse k nearest neighbor (RkNN) queries are fundamental in spatial databases, location-based analytics, and recommendation systems. Existing state-of-the-art techniques rely on spatial pruning supported by R-trees and their variants.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhengyang Bai , Peng Chen , Mohamed Wahib

Fast k-Nearest Neighbor search over real-valued vector spaces (KNN) is an important algorithmic task for information retrieval and recommendation systems. We present a method for using reduced precision to represent vectors through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anthony Ko , Iman Keivanloo , Vihan Lakshman , Eric Schkufza

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

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

In recent years, many deep-learning based models are proposed for text classification. This kind of models well fits the training set from the statistical point of view. However, it lacks the capacity of utilizing instance-level information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Zhiguo Wang , Wael Hamza , Linfeng Song

Image classification is an important task in the field of machine learning and image processing. However, the usually used classification method --- the K Nearest-Neighbor algorithm has high complexity, because its two main processes:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yijie Dang , Nan Jiang , Hao Hu , Zhuoxiao Ji , Wenyin Zhang

Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) is a nonparametric method for estimating the shape of a density function, given a set of samples from the distribution. Recently, locality-sensitive hashing, originally proposed as a tool for nearest neighbor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Matti Karppa , Martin Aumüller , Rasmus Pagh

The $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) algorithm is one of the most popular methods for nonparametric classification. However, a relevant limitation concerns the definition of the number of neighbors $k$. This parameter exerts a direct impact on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Alexandre Luís Magalhães Levada , Frank Nielsen , Michel Ferreira Cardia Haddad

In the era of big data, k-means clustering has been widely adopted as a basic processing tool in various contexts. However, its computational cost could be prohibitively high as the data size and the cluster number are large. It is well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Cheng-Hao Deng , Wan-Lei Zhao

Motivated by applications in computer vision and databases, we introduce and study the Simultaneous Nearest Neighbor Search (SNN) problem. Given a set of data points, the goal of SNN is to design a data structure that, given a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Piotr Indyk , Robert Kleinberg , Sepideh Mahabadi , Yang Yuan

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

The recent improvements of graphics processing units (GPU) offer to the computer vision community a powerful processing platform. Indeed, a lot of highly-parallelizable computer vision problems can be significantly accelerated using GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-04-10 Vincent Garcia , Eric Debreuve , Michel Barlaud