k-Nearest Neighbour Classifiers - A Tutorial

Perhaps the most straightforward classifier in the arsenal or Machine Learning techniques is the Nearest Neighbour Classifier—classification is achieved by identifying the nearest neighbours to a query example and using those neighbours to determine the class of the query. Sections on similarity measures for time-series, retrieval speedup, and intrinsic dimensionality have been added.

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• 1 This approach to classification is of particular importance, because issues of poor runtime performance is not such a problem these days with the computational power that is available.
• 2 This article presents an overview of techniques for Nearest Neighbour classification focusing on: mechanisms for assessing similarity (distance), computational issues in identifying nearest neighbours, and mechanisms for reducing the dimension of the data.
• 3 This article is the second edition of a paper previously published as a technical report .

This research advances how AI systems learn, reason, and solve problems — with direct implications for automation and scientific discovery.

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