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k-nearest neighbors: a standalone construct

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Machine learning

classifying a point by the labels of its closest training examples, with an error bounded by twice the Bayes error in the limit.

In machine learning, k-nearest neighbors refers to classifying a point by the labels of its closest training examples, with an error bounded by twice the Bayes error in the limit. This meaning comes from Cover (1967) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.[1]

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References

Cover, T., & Hart, P. (1967). Nearest neighbor pattern classification. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 13(1), 21-27. https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1967.1053964

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