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hubness

hubness noun: the tendency of high-dimensional data to contain points (hubs) that frequently occur in k-nearest-neighbor lists of other points.

Noun

hubness

  1. The tendency of high-dimensional data to contain points (hubs) that frequently occur in k-nearest-neighbor lists of other points.

Origin of hubness

From hub + -ness.

Questions about hubness

What does hubness mean?
Hubness means the tendency of high-dimensional data to contain points (hubs) that frequently occur in k-nearest-neighbor lists of other points.
What part of speech is hubness?
Hubness is a noun.

Words near hubness in the dictionary

  1. hubmaking
  2. Hubner
  3. hubnerite
  4. hubnerites
  5. Hubners
  6. hubness
  7. hubnode
  8. hubnodes
  9. hubodometer
  10. hubodometers
  11. hubometer

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