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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

Interpretability techniques in NLP have mainly focused on understanding individual predictions using attention visualization or gradient-based saliency maps over tokens. We propose using k nearest neighbor (kNN) representations to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Nazneen Fatema Rajani , Ben Krause , Wengpeng Yin , Tong Niu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

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

We present the methodology for deriving accurate and reliable cosmological constraints from non-linear scales (<50Mpc/h) with k-th nearest neighbor (kNN) statistics. We detail our methods for choosing robust minimum scale cuts and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Sihan Yuan , Tom Abel , Risa H. Wechsler

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

In this abstract paper, we introduce a new kernel learning method by a nonparametric density estimator. The estimator consists of a group of k-centroids clusterings. Each clustering randomly selects data points with randomly selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Xiao-Lei Zhang

Identifying local structural motifs and packing patterns of molecular solids is a challenging task for both simulation and experiment. We demonstrate two novel approaches to characterize local environments in different polymorphs of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-02 Daisuke Kuroshima , Michael Kilgour , Mark E. Tuckerman , Jutta Rogal

Machine learning (ML) tools such as encoder-decoder convolutional neural networks (CNN) can represent incredibly complex nonlinear functions which map between combinations of images and scalars. For example, CNNs can be used to map…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Alexander Scheinker

The use of machine learning is becoming ubiquitous in astronomy, but remains rare in the study of the atmospheres of exoplanets. Given the spectrum of an exoplanetary atmosphere, a multi-parameter space is swept through in real time to find…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-12 Pablo Marquez-Neila , Chloe Fisher , Raphael Sznitman , Kevin Heng

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

Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

Nuclear star clusters represent some of the most extreme collisional environments in the Universe. A nuclear star cluster like that of the Milky Way harbors a supermassive black hole at its center, which accelerates stars to high speeds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-03 Sanaea C. Rose , James C. Lombardi, , Elena González Prieto , Fulya Kıroğlu , Frederic A. Rasio

The popularity of Artificial intelligence and machine learning have prompted researchers to use it in the recent researches. The proposed method uses K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) algorithm for segmentation of medical images, extracting of image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Ayesha Heena , Nagashettappa Biradar , Najmuddin M. Maroof , Surbhi Bhatia , Rashmi Agarwal , Kanta Prasad

We propose a novel clustering approach for point-cloud segmentation based on supervised contrastive metric learning (CML). Rather than predicting cluster assignments or object-centric variables, the method learns a latent representation in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-25 Max Marriott-Clarke , Lazar Novakovic , Elizabeth Ratzer , Robert J. Bainbridge , Loukas Gouskos , Benedikt Maier

Determining the aqueous solubility of molecules is a vital step in many pharmaceutical, environmental, and energy storage applications. Despite efforts made over decades, there are still challenges associated with developing a solubility…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-05 Gihan Panapitiya , Michael Girard , Aaron Hollas , Vijay Murugesan , Wei Wang , Emily Saldanha

Natural language processing often involves computations with semantic or syntactic graphs to facilitate sophisticated reasoning based on structural relationships. While convolution kernels provide a powerful tool for comparing graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Sahil Garg , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

A novel approach is presented for the solution of instantaneous chemical equilibrium problems. The chemical equilibrium can be considered, due to its intrinsically local character, as a mapping of the three-dimensional parameter space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Asensio Ramos , H. Socas-Navarro

Machine learning (ML) in the representation of molecular-orbital-based (MOB) features has been shown to be an accurate and transferable approach to the prediction of post-Hartree-Fock correlation energies. Previous applications of MOB-ML…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Lixue Cheng , Nikola B. Kovachki , Matthew Welborn , Thomas F. Miller

The study of structure-spectrum relationships is essential for spectral interpretation, impacting structural elucidation and material design. Predicting spectra from molecular structures is challenging due to their complex relationships.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Fanjie Xu , Wentao Guo , Feng Wang , Lin Yao , Hongshuai Wang , Fujie Tang , Zhifeng Gao , Linfeng Zhang , Weinan E , Zhong-Qun Tian , Jun Cheng

Augmenting neural machine translation with external memory at decoding time, in the form of k-nearest neighbors machine translation ($k$-NN MT), is a well-established strategy for increasing translation performance. $k$-NN MT retrieves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Evgeniia Tokarchuk , Sergey Troshin , Vlad Niculae