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K-nearest neighbor classification algorithm is one of the most basic algorithms in machine learning, which determines the sample's category by the similarity between samples. In this paper, we propose a quantum K-nearest neighbor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Jing Li , Song Lin , Yu Kai , Gongde Guo

In this work we introduce a quantum sorting algorithm with adaptable requirements of memory and circuit depth, and then use it to develop a new quantum version of the classical machine learning algorithm known as k-nearest neighbors (k-NN).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 L. F. Quezada , Guo-Hua Sun , Shi-Hai Dong

Learning a robust classifier from a few samples remains a key challenge in machine learning. A major thrust of research has been focused on developing $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) based algorithms combined with metric learning that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-17 Shixiang Zhu , Liyan Xie , Minghe Zhang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

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

In the $k$-nearest neighborhood model ($k$-NN), we are given a set of points $P$, and we shall answer queries $q$ by returning the $k$ nearest neighbors of $q$ in $P$ according to some metric. This concept is crucial in many areas of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Dennis Rohde

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 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

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

Nearest neighbors (NN) are traditionally used to compute final decisions, e.g., in Support Vector Machines or k-NN classifiers, and to provide users with explanations for the model's decision. In this paper, we show a novel utility of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Giang , Nguyen , Valerie Chen , Mohammad Reza Taesiri , Anh Totti Nguyen

The k-nearest-neighbor method performs classification tasks for a query sample based on the information contained in its neighborhood. Previous studies into the k-nearest-neighbor algorithm usually achieved the decision value for a class by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Chengsheng Mao , Bin Hu , Lei Chen , Philip Moore , Xiaowei Zhang

We construct a hybrid quantum-classical approach for the $K$-Nearest Neighbour algorithm, where the information is embedded in a phase-distributed multimode coherent state with the assistance of a single photon. The task of finding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Vivek Mehta , Francesco Petruccione , Utpal Roy

Data-driven neighborhood definitions and graph constructions are often used in machine learning and signal processing applications. k-nearest neighbor~(kNN) and $\epsilon$-neighborhood methods are among the most common methods used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

Neural network classifiers have become the de-facto choice for current "pre-train then fine-tune" paradigms of visual classification. In this paper, we investigate k-Nearest-Neighbor (k-NN) classifiers, a classical model-free learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Menglin Jia , Bor-Chun Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Claire Cardie , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

$k$ Nearest Neighbors ($k$NN) is one of the most widely used supervised learning algorithms to classify Gaussian distributed data, but it does not achieve good results when it is applied to nonlinear manifold distributed data, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Enmei Tu , Yaqian Zhang , Lin Zhu , Jie Yang , Nikola Kasabov

This paper proposes a soft range limited K nearest neighbours (SRL-KNN) localization fingerprinting algorithm. The conventional KNN determines the neighbours of a user by calculating and ranking the fingerprint distance measured at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Minh Tu Hoang , Yizhou Zhu , Brosnan Yuen , Tyler Reese , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Robert Westendorp , Michael Xie

kNN is a very effective Instance based learning method, and it is easy to implement. Due to heterogeneous nature of data, noises from different possible sources are also widespread in nature especially in case of large-scale databases. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Joydip Dhar , Ashaya Shukla , Mukul Kumar , Prashant Gupta

k-nearest neighbour (kNN) is one of the most prominent, simple and basic algorithm used in machine learning and data mining. However, kNN has limited prediction ability, i.e., kNN cannot predict any instance correctly if it does not belong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Muhammad Asim , Muaaz Zakria

k-nearest neighbor graph is a fundamental data structure in many disciplines such as information retrieval, data-mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning, etc. In the literature, considerable research has been focusing on how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wan-Lei Zhao , Hui Wang , Peng-Cheng Lin , Chong-Wah Ngo

This paper proposes a spatial k-nearest neighbor method for nonparametric prediction of real-valued spatial data and supervised classification for categorical spatial data. The proposed method is based on a double nearest neighbor rule…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Mohamed-Salem Ahmed , Mamadou N'diaye , Mohammed Kadi Attouch , Sophie Dabo-Niang