Title
Improving the k-Nearest Neighbour Rule by an Evolutionary Voting Approach
Abstract
This work presents an evolutionary approach to modify the voting system of the k-Nearest Neighbours (kNN). The main novelty of this article lies on the optimization process of voting regardless of the distance of every neighbour. The calculated real-valued vector through the evolutionary process can be seen as the relative contribution of every neighbour to select the label of an unclassified example. We have tested our approach on 30 datasets of the UCI repository and results have been compared with those obtained from other 6 variants of the kNN predictor, resulting in a realistic improvement statistically supported.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-07617-1_27
HAIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
evolutionary computation,fuzzy knn,knn voting
Nearest neighbour,Voting,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Evolutionary computation,Artificial intelligence,Fuzzy knn,Novelty,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8480
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
14
3