Speculate-Correct Error Bounds for k-Nearest Neighbor Classifiers
arXiv:1410.2500v61 citations
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This provides theoretical guarantees for a widely used but poorly understood classifier, addressing a foundational issue in machine learning theory.
The paper tackled the problem of deriving error bounds for k-nearest neighbor classifiers, showing that they have exponential error bounds with an O(sqrt((k + ln n) / n)) range for n in-sample examples.
We introduce the speculate-correct method to derive error bounds for local classifiers. Using it, we show that k nearest neighbor classifiers, in spite of their famously fractured decision boundaries, have exponential error bounds with O(sqrt((k + ln n) / n)) error bound range for n in-sample examples.