Machine learning/Classification algorithms
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Classification is a subcategory of supervised learning problems.
k-nearest neighbor
[edit | edit source]- a simple classification algorithm
- Intuition: Find the majority vote in the training data
- This is a discriminative model, meaning that there is no way to generate the training data points
Algorithm
[edit | edit source]- Define some distance metric or similarity metric. The simplest case is Euclidean distance.
- Given some input point , find the 'th nearest neighbors from the training set.
- Do a majority vote between these nearest neighbor list and classify the input point as the category with highest number of vote.
Probabilistic interpretation
[edit | edit source]Consider the classification output as a random variable . Define probability of given input and training data is
The output of the classification is
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