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Himanshu Pandey commented on MADLIB-1059:
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[~njayaram], 

When the user is passing the function in fn_dist, shall we check everytime that 
the fn_dist should contain following functions?

{code}
dist_norm1
dist_norm2 
squared_dist_norm2
dist_angle 
dist_tanimoto 
{code}


So far, I am checking if fn_dist has the signature format of (DOUBLE 
PRECISION[]  , DOUBLE PRECISION[] )   and returning DOUBLE PRECISION.

> Add additional distance metrics for k-NN
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MADLIB-1059
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MADLIB-1059
>             Project: Apache MADlib
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: k-NN
>            Reporter: Frank McQuillan
>            Assignee: Himanshu Pandey
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: starter
>             Fix For: v1.13
>
>
> Follow on from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MADLIB-927
> which supports one distance function.  This JIRA is to 
> (1)
> add additional distance metrics.  The model is follow is
> http://madlib.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/group__grp__kmeans.html
> fn_dist (optional)
> TEXT, default: squared_dist_norm2'. The name of the function to use to 
> calculate the distance between data points.
> The following distance functions can be used (computation of barycenter/mean 
> in parentheses):
> dist_norm1: 1-norm/Manhattan (element-wise median [Note that MADlib does not 
> provide a median aggregate function for support and performance reasons.])
> dist_norm2: 2-norm/Euclidean (element-wise mean)
> squared_dist_norm2: squared Euclidean distance (element-wise mean)
> dist_angle: angle (element-wise mean of normalized points)
> dist_tanimoto: tanimoto (element-wise mean of normalized points [5])
> user defined function with signature DOUBLE PRECISION[] x, DOUBLE PRECISION[] 
> y -> DOUBLE PRECISION
> and also check of there are other distance functions under
> http://madlib.apache.org/docs/latest/group__grp__linalg.html
> that might make sense to include while you are at it, in addition to the ones 
> listed above
> (2) Add an option for weighted average in the voting.



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