1. K nearest neighbor classification Presented by Vipin Kumar University of Minnesota kumar@cs.umn.edu Based on discussion in "Intro to Data Mining" by Tan, Steinbach, Kumar

2. ICDM: Top Ten Data Mining Algorithms K nearest neighbor classification December, 2006 2 Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers l Requires three things –The set of stored records –Distance metric to compute distance between records –The value of k, the number of nearest neighbors to retrieve l To classify an unknown record: –Compute distance to other training records –Identify k nearest neighbors –Use class labels of nearest neighbors to determine the class label of unknown record (e.g., by taking majority vote)

3. ICDM: Top Ten Data Mining Algorithms K nearest neighbor classification December, 2006 3 Nearest Neighbor Classification l Compute distance between two points: –Example: Euclidean distance –Other distance measures are often better l Determine the class from nearest neighbor list –take the majority vote of class labels among the k-nearest neighbors –Weigh the vote according to distance  weight factor, w = 1/d 2

4. ICDM: Top Ten Data Mining Algorithms K nearest neighbor classification December, 2006 4 Nearest Neighbor Classification… l Choosing the value of k: –If k is too small, sensitive to noise points –If k is too large, neighborhood may include points from other classes

5. ICDM: Top Ten Data Mining Algorithms K nearest neighbor classification December, 2006 5 Nearest Neighbor Classification… l Scaling issues –Attributes may have to be scaled to prevent distance measures from being dominated by one of the attributes –Example:  height of a person may vary from 1.5m to 1.8m  weight of a person may vary from 90lb to 300lb  income of a person may vary from $10K to $1M

6. ICDM: Top Ten Data Mining Algorithms K nearest neighbor classification December, 2006 6 Nearest neighbor Classification… l k-NN classifiers are lazy learners –Models are not build explicitly unlike eager learners (e.g., decision trees, SVM, etc) –Building model is cheap –Classifying unknown records are relatively expensive  Requires computation of k-nearest neighbors

7. ICDM: Top Ten Data Mining Algorithms K nearest neighbor classification December, 2006 7 Impact of K Nearest Neighbor Classification l Simple technique that is easily implemented l Well suited for –multi-modal classes –Records with multiple class labels l Can sometimes be the best method –Michihiro Kuramochi and George Karypis, Gene Classification using Expression Profiles: A Feasibility Study, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 641- 660, 2005 –K nearest neighbor outperformed SVM for protein function prediction using expression profiles

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