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The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) algorithm is a popular and effective classification algorithm. Due to its large storage and computational requirements, it is suitable for cloud outsourcing. However, k-NN is often run on sensitive data such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Frank Li , Richard Shin , Vern Paxson

The k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) classifier is a fundamental non-parametric machine learning algorithm. However, it is well known that it suffers from the curse of dimensionality, which is why in practice one often applies a kNN classifier on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Luka Rimanic , Cedric Renggli , Bo Li , Ce Zhang

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

Estimating entropy and mutual information consistently is important for many machine learning applications. The Kozachenko-Leonenko (KL) estimator (Kozachenko & Leonenko, 1987) is a widely used nonparametric estimator for the entropy of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Shashank Singh , Barnabás Póczos

KNN has the reputation to be the word simplest but efficient supervised learning algorithm used for either classification or regression. KNN prediction efficiency highly depends on the size of its training data but when this training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jude Tchaye-Kondi , Yanlong Zhai , Liehuang Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable innovative applications of machine learning like image recognition, machine translation, or malware detection. However, deep learning is often criticized for its lack of robustness in adversarial settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel

Recent literature has shown that symbolic data, such as text and graphs, is often better represented by points on a curved manifold, rather than in Euclidean space. However, geometrical operations on manifolds are generally more complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Max Aalto , Nakul Verma

The search task is one of the most difficult when it comes to execution speed, and reducing the latter is important both when working with large data and with small samples, if they need to be processed frequently and in a limited time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Karina Zakharova

Analyzing high-dimensional data with manifold learning algorithms often requires searching for the nearest neighbors of all observations. This presents a computational bottleneck in statistical manifold learning when observations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Fan Cheng , Anastasios Panagiotelis , Rob J Hyndman

In this paper we propose an algorithm for the approximate k-Nearest-Neighbors problem. According to the existing researches, there are two kinds of approximation criterion. One is the distance criteria, and the other is the recall criteria.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Hengzhao Ma , Jianzhong Li

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

The estimation of quantum entropies and distance measures, such as von Neumann entropy, R\'{e}nyi entropy, Tsallis entropy, trace distance, and fidelity-induced distances such as the Bures distance, has been a key area of research in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Myeongjin Shin , Seungwoo Lee , Junseo Lee , Mingyu Lee , Donghwa Ji , Hyeonjun Yeo , Kabgyun Jeong

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

We propose a new finding $k$-minima algorithm and prove that its query complexity is $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{kN})$, where $N$ is the number of data indices. Though the complexity is equivalent to that of an existing method, the proposed is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Kohei Miyamoto , Masakazu Iwamura , Koichi Kise

Geometric Machine Learning (GML) has shown that respecting non-Euclidean geometry in data spaces can significantly improve performance over naive Euclidean assumptions. In parallel, Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has emerged as a promising…

In the current era, quantum resources are extremely limited, and this makes difficult the usage of quantum machine learning (QML) models. Concerning the supervised tasks, a viable approach is the introduction of a quantum locality…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

Motivated by the increasing availability of low- and mixed-precision arithmetic on modern hardware, we develop mixed-precision variants of Lloyd's algorithm for k-means clustering. The main ingredient is a family of mixed-precision kernels…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Erin Carson , Xinye Chen , Xiaobo Liu

We study the k nearest neighbors problem in the plane for general, convex, pairwise disjoint sites of constant description complexity such as line segments, disks, and quadrilaterals and with respect to a general family of distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chih-Hung Liu

The choice of good distances and similarity measures between objects is important for many machine learning methods. Therefore, many metric learning algorithms have been developed in recent years, mainly for Euclidean data in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Yacouba Kaloga , Pierre Borgnat , Amaury Habrard

Approximate K nearest neighbor (AKNN) search is a fundamental and challenging problem. We observe that in high-dimensional space, the time consumption of nearly all AKNN algorithms is dominated by that of the distance comparison operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jianyang Gao , Cheng Long