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Document valid `**kwds` options to pass to `pairwise_distances`

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#8,281 opened on Jun 22, 2026

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I think we should try to exhaustively document all additional metric-specific parameters as part of the metric doc-string or alternatively redirect to the right documentation. Otherwise it feels like we are just mentioning an example here, but are actually not fully documenting these additional parameters.

Originally posted by @csadorf in https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/8268#discussion_r3455192882

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Examine the pairwise distances function in the codebase to identify all metric specific keyword arguments and document them in the docstring.
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