# nearest neighbor search

> (as a form of proximity search (metric space)) optimization problem of finding the point in a given set that is closest (or most similar) to a given point

**Wikidata**: [Q608751](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q608751)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest_neighbor_search)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/nearest-neighbor-search


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. Quora
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)