A graph-based semi-supervised k nearest-neighbor method for nonlinear manifold distributed data classification

Date
2016-11-01
Authors
Tu, E
Zhang, Y
Zhu, L
Yang, J
Kasabov, N
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Journal Article
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Elsevier Inc.
Abstract

k nearest neighbors (kNN) is one of the most widely used supervised learning algorithms to classify Gaussian distributed data, but it does not achieve good results when it is applied to nonlinear manifold distributed data, especially when a very limited amount of labeled samples are available. In this paper, we propose a new graph-based kNN algorithm which can effectively handle both Gaussian distributed data and nonlinear manifold distributed data. To achieve this goal, we first propose a constrained Tired Random Walk (TRW) by constructing an R-level nearest-neighbor strengthened tree over the graph, and then compute a TRW matrix for similarity measurement purposes. After this, the nearest neighbors are identified according to the TRW matrix and the class label of a query point is determined by the sum of all the TRW weights of its nearest neighbors. To deal with online situations, we also propose a new algorithm to handle sequential samples based a local neighborhood reconstruction. Comparison experiments are conducted on both synthetic data sets and real-world data sets to demonstrate the validity of the proposed new kNN algorithm and its improvements to other version of kNN algorithms. Given the widespread appearance of manifold structures in real-world problems and the popularity of the traditional kNN algorithm, the proposed manifold version kNN shows promising potential for classifying manifold-distributed data.

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Constrained tired random walk , k Nearest neighbors , Manifold classification , Semi-Supervised learning
Source
Information Sciences, vol.367-368, pp.673 - 688
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