Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSOC - Locality sensitive Hashing

2014-03-08 Thread Maheshakya Wijewardena
As a starter, I was thinking of implementing following plain LSH algorithm. But as Daniel Vainsencher has showed (In the other mailing thread) we can use LSH forest. In regular LSH, a particular setting of the number of hash functions per > index (k) and the number of indexes (L) essentially deter

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSOC - Locality sensitive Hashing

2014-02-26 Thread Maheshakya Wijewardena
> > I would also rather focus on non-binary representations. Even when using Random Projection method for hashing, only sign of the result of dot product is considered. So that, in that situation also, there will be a binary representation( or +1s and -1s). What is your idea about this method? N

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSOC - Locality sensitive Hashing

2014-02-26 Thread Andy
On 02/26/2014 10:13 AM, Maheshakya Wijewardena wrote: The method "Bit sampling for Hamming distance" is already included in "brute" algorithm as the metric "hamming" in Nearest neighbor search. Hence, I think that does not need to be implemented as a LSH algorithm I would also rather focus on n

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSOC - Locality sensitive Hashing

2014-02-26 Thread Maheshakya Wijewardena
The method "Bit sampling for Hamming distance" is already included in "brute" algorithm as the metric "hamming" in Nearest neighbor search. Hence, I think that does not need to be implemented as a LSH algorithm. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Maheshakya Wijewardena < pmaheshak...@gmail.com> wr

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSOC - Locality sensitive Hashing

2014-02-25 Thread Maheshakya Wijewardena
Approximating Nearest neighbor search is one of the application of locality sensitive hashing.There are five major methods. - Bit sampling for Hamming distance - Min-wise independent permutations - Nilsimsa Hash - Random projection - Stable distributions Bit sampling method is fair

[Scikit-learn-general] GSOC - Locality sensitive Hashing

2014-02-24 Thread Maheshakya Wijewardena
Hi, I have looked into this project idea. I have studied this method and I like to discuss further on this. I would like to know who the mentors for this project are and to get some insight on how to begin. Regards, Maheshakya, -- Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fac