K-D tree reference
.ml.clust.kd k-d tree functions
findLeaf Find the leaf node to which a datapoint belongs newTree Build a k-d tree nn Find the nearest neighbor for a datapoint
A k-dimensional tree (k-d tree) is a special case of a binary search tree, commonly used in computer science to organize data points in k-dimensional space. Each leaf node in the tree contains a set of k-dimensional points, while each non-leaf node generates a splitting hyperplane which divides the surrounding space.
At each non-leaf node, the dataset is split roughly in two. A splitting dimension is chosen to reflect the axis with highest variance, and the median value for the dataset is used to split the data along this axis. The placement of each node in the tree is determined by whether the node is less than (to the left of) or greater than (to the right of) the proceeding median value. This splitting process repeats recursively throughout the tree, until a small enough number of points remain to form a leaf.
.ml.clust.kd.findLeaf
Find the tree index of the leaf that a datapoint belongs to
.ml.clust.kd.findLeaf[tree;pt;node]Where
treeis a k-d tree tableptis the point to searchnodeis a node in the k-d tree to start the search
returns the index (row) of the kd-tree that the datapoint belongs to.
q)show data:2 10#20?10.
8.132478 1.291938 1.477547 2.74227 5.635053 8.83823 ...
5.426371 0.7757332 6.374637 9.761246 5.396816 7.162858...
q)show tree:.ml.clust.kd.newTree[data;2]
leaf left self parent children axis midval idxs
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0 0 0 1 4 0 6.718125 `long$()
0 1 1 0 2 3 1 5.396816 `long$()
1 1 2 1 `long$() 1 6
1 0 3 1 `long$() 2 3 4
0 0 4 0 5 6 1 6.568734 `long$()
1 1 5 4 `long$() 0 7
1 0 6 4 `long$() 5 8 9
q)// Point to search
q)show pt:2?10f
3.414991 9.516746
q).ml.clust.kd.findLeaf[tree;pt;first tree]
leaf | 1b
left | 0b
self | 3
parent | 1
children| `long$()
axis | 0N
midval | 0n
idxs | 2 3 4Both .ml.clust.kd.nn and .ml.clust.kd.findLeaf functions can use either q or C code in their implementations.
To switch between the implementations, .ml.clust.kd.qC[b] can be used, where b is a boolean indicating whether to use the q (1b) or C (0b) code. If the C code is not available, the function will default to q regardless of the input.
.ml.clust.kd.newTree
Build k-d tree
.ml.clust.kd.newTree[data;leafSize]Where
datarepresents the points being analyzed in matrix format, where each column is an individual datapointleafSizeis the minimum number of datapoints contained within each leaf of the tree.
returns a k-d tree table:
leaf whether this is a leaf in the tree (boolean)
left whether node/leaf is to the left of its parent node (boolean)
self tree index of current node
parent tree index of the parent node
children tree indexes of any child nodes
axis splitting dimension of current node (null if leaf node)
midval splitting value of current node (null if leaf node)
idxs indexes (column in data) of datapoints contained in a leafq)show data:2 10#20?10.
5.497936 1.958467 5.615261 0.7043811 2.124007 7.77882 ...
4.57328 0.08062521 1.039343 1.044512 3.380097 4.861546...
q).ml.clust.kd.newTree[data;2]
leaf left self parent children axis midval idxs
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0 0 0 1 4 1 4.57328 `long$()
0 1 1 0 2 3 0 2.124007 `long$()
1 1 2 1 `long$() 1 3
1 0 3 1 `long$() 2 4 9
0 0 4 0 5 6 0 5.497936 `long$()
1 1 5 4 `long$() 6 8
1 0 6 4 `long$() 0 5 7
q).ml.clust.kd.newTree[data;4]
leaf left self parent children axis midval idxs
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0 0 0 1 2 1 4.57328 `long$()
1 1 1 0 `long$() 1 2 3 4 9
1 0 2 0 `long$() 0 5 6 7 8The value of leafSize can affect the speed when searching for nearest neighbors.
.ml.clust.kd.nn
Find the nearest neighbor for a data point
.ml.clust.kd.nn[tree;data;df;xidxs;pt]Where
treeis a k-d treedatarepresents the points being analyzed in matrix format, where each column is an individual datapointdfis the distance function:e2distedistmdistxidxsare the indices (columns indata) to be excluded from the nearest-neighbor search (use()if any point can be chosen)ptis the floating data point to be searched
returns a dictionary containing the distance (closestDist) and the column index in data (closestPoint) of the nearest neighbor.
q)show data:2 10#20?10.
3.927524 5.170911 5.159796 4.066642 1.780839 3.017723 ..
4.931835 5.785203 0.8388858 1.959907 3.75638 6.137452 ..
q)show tree:.ml.clust.kd.newTree[data;3]
leaf left self parent children axis midval idxs
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0 0 0 1 2 1 5.294808 `long$()
1 1 1 0 `long$() 0 2 3 4 8
1 0 2 0 `long$() 1 5 6 7 9
q).ml.clust.kd.nn[tree;data;`e2dist;();1 2f]
closestPoint| 4
closestDist | 3.694579
q)// finds nearest neighbor excluding point 4
q).ml.clust.kd.nn[tree;data;`e2dist;4;1 2f]
closestPoint| 3
closestDist | 9.4059