Kernel Nearest-Neighbor Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Kai Yu;Liang Ji;Xuegong Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Institute of Information Processing, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, 100084. E-mail: yukai99 ...;Institute of Information Processing, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, 100084;State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Institute of Information Processing, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, 100084. E-mail: zc-sa@m ...

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The ‘kernel approach’ has attracted great attention with the development of support vector machine (SVM) and has been studied in a general way. It offers an alternative solution to increase the computational power of linear learning machines by mapping data into a high dimensional feature space. This ‘approach’ is extended to the well-known nearest-neighbor algorithm in this paper. It can be realized by substitution of a kernel distance metric for the original one in Hilbert space, and the corresponding algorithm is called kernel nearest-neighbor algorithm. Three data sets, an artificial data set, BUPA liver disorders database and USPS database, were used for testing. Kernel nearest-neighbor algorithm was compared with conventional nearest-neighbor algorithm and SVM Experiments show that kernel nearest-neighbor algorithm is more powerful than conventional nearest-neighbor algorithm, and it can compete with SVM.