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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

$K$-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 K-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier is one of the simplest and most common classifiers, yet its performance competes with the most complex classifiers in the literature. The core of this classifier depends mainly on measuring the…

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

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

Large margin nearest neighbor (LMNN) is a metric learner which optimizes the performance of the popular $k$NN classifier. However, its resulting metric relies on pre-selected target neighbors. In this paper, we address the feasibility of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Babak Hosseini , Barbara Hammer

High dimensionality, i.e. data having a large number of variables, tends to be a challenge for most machine learning tasks, including classification. A classifier usually builds a model representing how a set of inputs explain the outputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Francisco J. Pulgar , Francisco Charte , Antonio J. Rivera , María J. del Jesus

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

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

This paper presents a novel quantum K-nearest neighbors (QKNN) algorithm, which offers improved performance over the classical k-NN technique by incorporating quantum computing (QC) techniques to enhance classification accuracy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Asif Akhtab Ronggon , Md. Saifur Rahman

Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbour (NBNN) is a simple and effective framework which addresses many of the pitfalls of K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) classification. It has yielded competitive results on several computer vision benchmarks. Its central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Graham W. Taylor

Distance metric learning is a successful way to enhance the performance of the nearest neighbor classifier. In most cases, however, the distribution of data does not obey a regular form and may change in different parts of the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Hossein Rajabzadeh , Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi , Mohammad Sadegh Zare , Mostafa Fakhrahmad

The ability to detect intent in dialogue systems has become increasingly important in modern technology. These systems often generate a large amount of unlabeled data, and manually labeling this data requires substantial human effort.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Nicholas Botzer , David Vasquez , Tim Weninger , Issam Laradji

The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) is a basic machine learning (ML) algorithm, and several quantum versions of it, employing different distance metrics, have been presented in the last few years. Although the Euclidean distance is one of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

Various kinds of k-nearest neighbor (KNN) based classification methods are the bases of many well-established and high-performance pattern-recognition techniques, but both of them are vulnerable to their parameter choice. Essentially, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Ji Feng , Qingsheng Zhu , Jinlong Huang , Lijun Yang

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

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

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 method for local distance metric learning based on sample similarity as side information. These local metrics, which utilize conical combinations of metric weight matrices, are learned from the pooled spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 YInjie Huang , Cong Li , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

This paper presents a hybrid system for intuitive item similarity search that combines a Large Language Model (LLM) with a custom K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm. Unlike black-box dense vector systems, this architecture provides…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ana Rodrigues , João Mata , Rui Rego
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