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k-Nearest Neighbors is a simple algorithm based on finding nearest neighbors of data points in a metric feature space according to a specified distance function. It is considered one of the canonical algorithms of data science. It is a nonparametric method, which makes it applicable to a lot of real-world problems where the data doesn’t satisfy particular distribution assumptions. It can also be implemented as a lazy algorithm, which means there is no training phase where information in the data is condensed into coefficients, but there is a costly testing phase where all data (or some subset) is used to make predictions.
This JIRA involves implementing the naïve approach - i.e. compute the k nearest neighbors by going through all points.
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