We mentioned earlier in Section 52.3 that the nearest-neighbor (NN) rule for classification and clustering treats equally all attributes within each feature vector, hn∈RM. If, for example, some attributes are more relevant to the classification task than other attributes, then this aspect is ignored by the NN classifier because all entries of the feature vector will contribute similarly to the calculation of Euclidean distances and the determination of neighborhoods.
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