K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm

A Breakdown of Classification With KNN

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Overview

K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) is a classification and regression algorithm which uses nearby points to generate predictions. It takes a point, finds the K-nearest points, and predicts a label for that point, K being user defined, e.g., 1,2,6. For classification, the algorithm uses the most frequent class of the…