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Boundary-Sensitive Approach for Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Classification

Authors Alejandro Flores-Velazco , David M. Mount

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
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  • approximate nearest-neighbor searching
  • nearest-neighbor classification
  • geometric data structures
  • space-time tradeoffs

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Abstract

The problem of nearest-neighbor classification is a fundamental technique in machine-learning. Given a training set P of n labeled points in ℝ^d, and an approximation parameter 0 < ε ≤ 1/2, any unlabeled query point should be classified with the class of any of its ε-approximate nearest-neighbors in P. Answering these queries efficiently has been the focus of extensive research, proposing techniques that are mainly tailored towards resolving the more general problem of ε-approximate nearest-neighbor search. While the latest can only hope to provide query time and space complexities dependent on n, the problem of nearest-neighbor classification accepts other parameters more suitable to its analysis. Such is the number k_ε of ε-border points, which describes the complexity of boundaries between sets of points of different classes.
This paper presents a new data structure called Chromatic AVD. This is the first approach for ε-approximate nearest-neighbor classification whose space and query time complexities are only dependent on ε, k_ε and d, while being independent on both n and Δ, the spread of P.

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Alejandro Flores-Velazco and David M. Mount. Boundary-Sensitive Approach for Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Classification. In 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 204, pp. 44:1-44:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.44

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Alejandro Flores-Velazco
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
David M. Mount
  • Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

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Research partially supported by NSF grant CCF-1618866.

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