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Recommender systems inherently exhibit a low-rank structure in latent space. A key challenge is to define meaningful and measurable distances in the latent space to capture user-user, item-item, user-item relationships effectively. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zerui Zhang , Yumou Qiu

Fast k-Nearest Neighbor search over real-valued vector spaces (KNN) is an important algorithmic task for information retrieval and recommendation systems. We present a method for using reduced precision to represent vectors through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anthony Ko , Iman Keivanloo , Vihan Lakshman , Eric Schkufza

Graph-based algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in the nearest neighbor search (NN-Search) problem. These empirical successes urge the need for theoretical results that guarantee the search quality and efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Anshumali Shrivastava , Zhao Song , Zhaozhuo Xu

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

This work provides a computable, direct, and mathematically rigorous approximation to the differential geometry of class manifolds for high-dimensional data, along with nonlinear projections from input space onto these class manifolds. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Aaron Mahler , Tyrus Berry , Tom Stephens , Harbir Antil , Michael Merritt , Jeanie Schreiber , Ioannis Kevrekidis

The approximate nearest neighbor problem ($\epsilon$-ANN) in high dimensional Euclidean space has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which has polynomial dependence in the dimension, sublinear query time, but…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Evangelos Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros

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

k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation (kNN-MT) has been recently proposed as a non-parametric solution for domain adaptation in neural machine translation (NMT). It aims to alleviate the performance degradation of advanced MT systems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Dexin Wang , Kai Fan , Boxing Chen , Deyi Xiong

As large language models (LLMs) grow in scale and specialization, routing--selecting the best model for a given input--has become essential for efficient and effective deployment. While recent methods rely on complex learned routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yang Li

Neural Networks (NNs) are the method of choice for building learning algorithms. Their popularity stems from their empirical success on several challenging learning problems. However, most scholars agree that a convincing theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Ronald DeVore , Boris Hanin , Guergana Petrova

The approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem is fundamental to efficiently serving many real-world machine learning applications. A number of techniques have been developed for ANN search that are efficient, accurate, and scalable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Philip Sun , Ruiqi Guo , Sanjiv Kumar

The problem of finding K-nearest neighbors in the given dataset for a given query point has been worked upon since several years. In very high dimensional spaces the K-nearest neighbor search (KNNS) suffers in terms of complexity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pramod Vadiraja , Christoph Peter Balada

Recent works have proven the effectiveness of k-nearest-neighbor machine translation(a.k.a kNN-MT) approaches to produce remarkable improvement in cross-domain translations. However, these models suffer from heavy retrieve overhead on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiangyu Shi , Yunlong Liang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen

Nearest neighbor (NN) search is an essential operation in many applications, such as one/few-shot learning and image classification. As such, fast and low-energy hardware support for accurate NN search is highly desirable. Ternary…

As deep neural networks power increasingly critical applications, stealthy backdoor attacks, where poisoned training inputs trigger malicious model behaviour while appearing benign, pose a severe security risk. Many existing defences are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nam Le , Leo Yu Zhang , Kewen Liao , Shirui Pan , Wei Luo

Randomized neural networks (NNs) are an interesting alternative to conventional NNs that are more used for data modeling. The random vector functional-link (RVFL) network is an established and theoretically well-grounded randomized learning…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-24 Hien D. Nguyen , Dianhui Wang , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Nearest neighbor machine translation is a successful approach for fast domain adaption, which interpolates the pre-trained transformers with domain-specific token-level k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) retrieval without retraining. Despite kNN MT's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Hossam Amer , Abdelrahman Abouelenin , Mohamed Maher , Evram Narouz , Mohamed Afify , Hany Awadallah

The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classification rule has proven extremely successful in countless many computer vision applications. For example, image categorization often relies on uniform voting among the nearest prototypes in the space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-01-11 Paolo Piro , Richard Nock , Frank Nielsen , Michel Barlaud

We suggest a robust nearest-neighbor approach to classifying high-dimensional data. The method enhances sensitivity by employing a threshold and truncates to a sequence of zeros and ones in order to reduce the deleterious impact of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-02 Yao-ban Chan , Peter Hall

Among the extensions of twin support vector machine (TSVM), some scholars have utilized K-nearest neighbor (KNN) graph to enhance TSVM's classification accuracy. However, these KNN-based TSVM classifiers have two major issues such as high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 A. Mir , Jalal A. Nasiri