AI RESEARCH

Nearest-Neighbor Radii under Dependent Sampling

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.14343v1 Announce Type: new Nearest-neighbor methods are fundamental to classical and modern machine learning, yet their geometric properties are typically analyzed under independent sampling. In this paper, we study the nearest-neighbor radii under dependent sampling. We consider strong mixing dependent observations and ask whether dependence changes the scale of nearest-neighbor neighborhoods. We establish distribution-free almost sure convergence under polynomial mixing and sharp non-asymptotic moment bounds under geometric mixing.