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The neighbor-joining algorithm is a popular phylogenetics method for constructing trees from dissimilarity maps. The neighbor-net algorithm is an extension of the neighbor-joining algorithm and is used for constructing split networks. We…

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We define and investigate the problem of $\textit{c-approximate window search}$: approximate nearest neighbor search where each point in the dataset has a numeric label, and the goal is to find nearest neighbors to queries within arbitrary…

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Developing increasingly efficient and accurate algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search is a paramount goal in modern information retrieval. A primary approach to addressing this question is clustering, which involves partitioning…

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The state of the art in approximation algorithms for facility location problems are complicated combinations of various techniques. In particular, the currently best 1.488-approximation algorithm for the uncapacitated facility location…

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Large-scale eigenvalue problems arise in various fields of science and engineering and demand computationally efficient solutions. In this study, we investigate the subspace approximation for parametric linear eigenvalue problems, aiming to…

This application for learning APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM has been designed in Java which will make user comfortable in learning the very complex subject "NP-Completeness" and the solution to NP-Complete problem using approximation algorithm.

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We investigate the problem of finding reverse nearest neighbors efficiently. Although provably good solutions exist for this problem in low or fixed dimensions, to this date the methods proposed in high dimensions are mostly heuristic. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-11-24 David Arthur , Steve Y. Oudot

With the growing integration of structured and unstructured data, new methods have emerged for performing similarity searches on vectors while honoring structured attribute constraints, i.e., a process known as Filtering Approximate Nearest…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mocheng Li , Xiao Yan , Baotong Lu , Yue Zhang , James Cheng , Chenhao Ma

Memory-based collaborative filtering methods like user or item k-nearest neighbors (kNN) are a simple yet effective solution to the recommendation problem. The backbone of these methods is the estimation of the empirical similarity between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Farhan Khawar , Nevin L. Zhang

We consider the \emph{smallest superpolyomino problem}: given a set of colored polyominoes, find the smallest polyomino containing each input polyomino as a subshape. This problem is shown to be NP-hard, even when restricted to a set of…

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We survey results on the hardness of approximating combinatorial optimization problems.

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A non-parametric k-nearest neighbour based entropy estimator is proposed. It improves on the classical Kozachenko-Leonenko estimator by considering non-uniform probability densities in the region of k-nearest neighbours around each sample…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Damiano Lombardi , Sanjay Pant

When training automated systems, it has been shown to be beneficial to adapt the representation of data by learning a problem-specific metric. This metric is global. We extend this idea and, for the widely used family of k nearest neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Jan Philip Göpfert , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer

Importance weighting is widely applicable in machine learning in general and in techniques dealing with data covariate shift problems in particular. A novel, direct approach to determine such importance weighting is presented. It relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Marco Loog

The $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) algorithm is one of the most popular methods for nonparametric classification. However, a relevant limitation concerns the definition of the number of neighbors $k$. This parameter exerts a direct impact on…

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K-nearest neighbor classification algorithm is one of the most basic algorithms in machine learning, which determines the sample's category by the similarity between samples. In this paper, we propose a quantum K-nearest neighbor…

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We study the problem of approximating the level set of an unknown function by sequentially querying its values. We introduce a family of algorithms called Bisect and Approximate through which we reduce the level set approximation problem to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 François Bachoc , Tommaso Cesari , Sébastien Gerchinovitz

The first result in this paper provides a very general $\epsilon$-removal argument for the multilinear restriction estimate. The second result provides a refinement of the multilinear restriction estimate in the case when some terms have…

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The $K$-nearest neighbors is a basic problem in machine learning with numerous applications. In this problem, given a (training) set of $n$ data points with labels and a query point $p$, we want to assign a label to $p$ based on the labels…

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Estimator algorithms in learning automata are useful tools for adaptive, real-time optimization in computer science and engineering applications. This paper investigates theoretical convergence properties for a special case of estimator…

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