Question

What is KNN algorithm? Can you explain with an example? Thank you..

Answer 1

KNN which stand for K Nearest Neighbor is a Supervised Machine Learning algorithm that classifies a new data point into the target class, depending on the features of its neighboring data points. 

Let’s try to understand the KNN algorithm with a simple example. Let’s say we want a machine to distinguish between images of cats & dogs. To do this we must input a dataset of cat and dog images and we have to train our model to detect the animals based on certain features. For example, features such as pointy ears can be used to identify cats and similarly we can identify dogs based on their long ears.

After studying the dataset during the training phase, when a new image is given to the model, the KNN algorithm will classify it into either cats or dogs depending on the similarity in their features. So if the new image has pointy ears, it will classify that image as a cat because it is similar to the cat images. In this manner, the KNN algorithm classifies data points based on how similar they are to their neighboring data points.

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