Tune a k-NN Model

The Amazon SageMaker AI k-nearest neighbors algorithm is a supervised algorithm. The algorithm consumes a test data set and emits a metric about the accuracy for a classification task or about the mean squared error for a regression task. These accuracy metrics compare the model predictions for their respective task to the ground truth provided by the empirical test data. To find the best model that reports the highest accuracy or lowest error on the test dataset, run a hyperparameter tuning job for k-NN.

Automatic model tuning, also known as hyperparameter tuning, finds the best version of a model by running many jobs that test a range of hyperparameters on your dataset. You choose the tunable hyperparameters, a range of values for each, and an objective metric. You choose the objective metric appropriate for the prediction task of the algorithm. Automatic model tuning searches the hyperparameters chosen to find the combination of values that result in the model that optimizes the objective metric. The hyperparameters are used only to help estimate model parameters and are not used by the trained model to make predictions.

For more information about model tuning, see Automatic model tuning with SageMaker AI.

Metrics Computed by the k-NN Algorithm

The k-nearest neighbors algorithm computes one of two metrics in the following table during training depending on the type of task specified by the predictor_type hyper-parameter.

Choose the predictor_type value appropriate for the type of task undertaken to calculate the relevant objective metric when tuning a model.

Tunable k-NN Hyperparameters

Tune the Amazon SageMaker AI k-nearest neighbor model with the following hyperparameters.