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Let $k$ be a nonnegative integer. In the approximate $k$-flat nearest neighbor ($k$-ANN) problem, we are given a set $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points in $d$-dimensional space and a fixed approximation factor $c > 1$. Our goal is to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Wolfgang Mulzer , Huy L. Nguyen , Paul Seiferth , Yannik Stein

Given a collection of points in R^3, KD-Tree and R-Tree are well-known nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithms that rely on space partitioning and spatial indexing techniques. However, when the query point is far from the data points or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Pengfei Wang , Jiantao Song , Shiqing Xin , Shuangmin Chen , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang , Jiaye Wang

The k Nearest Neighbors (kNN) method has received much attention in the past decades, where some theoretical bounds on its performance were identified and where practical optimizations were proposed for making it work fairly well in high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Aleksander Lodwich , Faisal Shafait , Thomas Breuel

A k nearest neighbor (kNN) query on road networks retrieves the k closest points of interest (POIs) by their network distances from a given location. Today, in the era of ubiquitous mobile computing, this is a highly pertinent query. While…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Tenindra Abeywickrama , Muhammad Aamir Cheema , David Taniar

In this article, we propose a new fast nearest neighbor search algorithm, based on vector quantization. Like many other branch and bound search algorithms [1,10], a preprocessing recursively partitions the data set into disjointed subsets…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-26 Sylvain Corlay

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

GPS enables mobile devices to continuously provide new opportunities to improve our daily lives. For example, the data collected in applications created by Uber or Public Transport Authorities can be used to plan transportation routes,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Sheng Wang , Zhifeng Bao , J. Shane Culpepper , Timos Sellis , Gao Cong

We are given a directed graph $G = (V,E)$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, with positive weights on the edges, and a parameter $k >0$. We show how to compute, for every vertex $v \in V$, its $k$ nearest-neighbors. The algorithm runs in $O(…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Sariel Har-Peled

One of the simplest and most effective classical machine learning algorithms is the $k$-nearest neighbors algorithm ($k$NN) which classifies an unknown test state by finding the $k$ nearest neighbors from a set of $M$ train states. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Afrad Basheer , A. Afham , Sandeep K. Goyal

Nearest neighbor search is known as a challenging issue that has been studied for several decades. Recently, this issue becomes more and more imminent in viewing that the big data problem arises from various fields. In this paper, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Wan-Lei Zhao , Jie Yang , Cheng-Hao Deng

Traditional route planning and k nearest neighbors queries only consider distance or travel time and ignore road safety altogether. However, many travellers prefer to avoid risky or unpleasant road conditions such as roads with high crime…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Punam Biswas , Tanzima Hashem , Muhammad Aamir Cheema

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

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

Given a reference set $R$ of $n$ points and a query set $Q$ of $m$ points in a metric space, this paper studies an important problem of finding $k$-nearest neighbors of every point $q \in Q$ in the set $R$ in a near-linear time. In the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yury Elkin , Vitaliy Kurlin

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

Exact nearest neighbor search is a computationally intensive process, and even its simpler sibling -- vector retrieval -- can be computationally complex. This is exacerbated when retrieving vectors which have high-dimension $d$ relative to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Richard Zhu

Range-filtering approximate $k$-nearest neighbor (RFAKNN) search takes as input a vector and a numeric value, returning $k$ points from a database of $N$ high-dimensional points. The returned points must satisfy two criteria: their numeric…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mingyu Yang , Wentao Li , Zhitao Shen , Chuan Xiao , Wei Wang

K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) search is a fundamental algorithm in artificial intelligence software with applications in robotics, and autonomous vehicles. These wide-ranging applications utilize KNN either directly for simple classification or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Aryan Naim , Joseph Bowkett , Sisir Karumanchi , Peyman Tavallali , Brett Kennedy

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

$k$-nearest neighbour ($k$-NN) is one of the simplest and most widely-used methods for supervised classification, that predicts a query's label by taking weighted ratio of observed labels of $k$ objects nearest to the query. The weights and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-12 Akifumi Okuno , Hidetoshi Shimodaira