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Describe your change:

  • Add an algorithm?
  • Fix a bug or typo in an existing algorithm?
  • Add or change doctests? -- Note: Please avoid changing both code and tests in a single pull request.
  • Documentation change?

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  • I have read CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • This pull request is all my own work -- I have not plagiarized.
  • I know that pull requests will not be merged if they fail the automated tests.
  • This PR only changes one algorithm file. To ease review, please open separate PRs for separate algorithms.
  • All new Python files are placed inside an existing directory.
  • All function and variable names follow Python naming conventions.
  • All function parameters and return values are annotated with Python type hints.
  • All functions have doctests that pass the automated testing.
  • The algorithm includes references to Wikipedia and the original MinHash paper.

Summary

Adds a dependency-free MinHash implementation for estimating Jaccard similarity from token sets. The implementation uses seeded BLAKE2b-derived permutations for deterministic signatures, validates inputs, and documents the algorithm with references.

MinHash is useful for near-duplicate detection, similarity search, and information-retrieval experiments where exact set comparisons are expensive.

Validation

  • python3 -m doctest -v machine_learning/min_hash.py — 7 tests passed.

@algorithms-keeper algorithms-keeper Bot added the require tests Tests [doctest/unittest/pytest] are required label Jul 25, 2026

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from collections.abc import Iterable, Sequence


def _token_hash(token: str, seed: int, permutation: int) -> int:

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As there is no test file in this pull request nor any test function or class in the file machine_learning/min_hash.py, please provide doctest for the function _token_hash

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from collections.abc import Iterable, Sequence


def _token_hash(token: str, seed: int, permutation: int) -> int:

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As there is no test file in this pull request nor any test function or class in the file machine_learning/min_hash.py, please provide doctest for the function _token_hash

@algorithms-keeper algorithms-keeper Bot added the tests are failing Do not merge until tests pass label Jul 25, 2026
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