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We show the existence of a Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) family for the angular distance that yields an approximate Near Neighbor Search algorithm with the asymptotically optimal running time exponent. Unlike earlier algorithms with this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Alexandr Andoni , Piotr Indyk , Thijs Laarhoven , Ilya Razenshteyn , Ludwig Schmidt

Fast approximate nearest neighbor (NN) search in large databases is becoming popular. Several powerful learning-based formulations have been proposed recently. However, not much attention has been paid to a more fundamental question: how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Junfeng He , Sanjiv Kumar , Shih-Fu Chang

The approximate nearest neighbor problem ($\epsilon$-ANN) in high dimensional Euclidean space has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which has polynomial dependence in the dimension, sublinear query time, but…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Evangelos Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros

We present a new algorithm for the approximate near neighbor problem that combines classical ideas from group testing with locality-sensitive hashing (LSH). We reduce the near neighbor search problem to a group testing problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Joshua Engels , Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Nearest neighbor search aims to obtain the samples in the database with the smallest distances from them to the queries, which is a basic task in a range of fields, including computer vision and data mining. Hashing is one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Xiao Luo , Haixin Wang , Daqing Wu , Chong Chen , Minghua Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

This paper introduces "Multi-Level Spherical LSH": parameter-free, a multi-level, data-dependant Locality Sensitive Hashing data structure for solving the Approximate Near Neighbors Problem (ANN). This data structure uses a modified version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Teresa Nicole Brooks , Rania Almajalid

The nearest neighbor problem is defined as follows: Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in some metric space $(X,D)$, build a data structure that, given any point $q$, returns a point in $P$ that is closest to $q$ (its "nearest neighbor" in $P$).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Alexandr Andoni , Piotr Indyk , Ilya Razenshteyn

Given a collection of objects and an associated similarity measure, the all-pairs similarity search problem asks us to find all pairs of objects with similarity greater than a certain user-specified threshold. Locality-sensitive hashing…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Venu Satuluri , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is one of the most popular methods for $c$-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search ($c$-ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces. In this paper, we propose a novel LSH scheme based on the Longest Circular Co-Substring…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yifan Lei , Qiang Huang , Mohan Kankanhalli , Anthony K. H. Tung

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a well-known solution for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional spaces due to its robust theoretical guarantee on query accuracy. Traditional LSH-based methods mainly focus on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jiuqi Wei , Botao Peng , Xiaodong Lee , Themis Palpanas

The problem of finding K-nearest neighbors in the given dataset for a given query point has been worked upon since several years. In very high dimensional spaces the K-nearest neighbor search (KNNS) suffers in terms of complexity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pramod Vadiraja , Christoph Peter Balada

Similarity search methods are widely used as kernels in various machine learning applications. Nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithms are often used to retrieve similar entries, given a query. While there exist efficient techniques for…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Rajendra Shinde , Ashish Goel , Pankaj Gupta , Debojyoti Dutta

All pairs similarity search is a problem where a set of data objects is given and the task is to find all pairs of objects that have similarity above a certain threshold for a given similarity measure-of-interest. When the number of points…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Aniket Chakrabarti , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

The Approximate Near Neighbor (ANN) problem is a cornerstone in high-dimensional data analysis, with applications ranging from information retrieval to data mining. Among the most successful paradigms for solving ANN in high-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Luca Becchetti , Andrea Clementi , Luciano Gualà , Emanuele Natale , Luca Pepè Sciarria , Alessandro Straziota

We propose a new class of data-independent locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithms based on the fruit fly olfactory circuit. The fundamental difference of this approach is that, instead of assigning hashes as dense points in a low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Jaiyam Sharma , Saket Navlakha

Nearest neighbor search is a basic computational tool used extensively in almost research domains of computer science specially when dealing with large amount of data. However, the use of nearest neighbor search is restricted for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Suman Saha , S. P. Ghrera

We study the Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) problem under a powerful adaptive adversary that controls both the dataset and a sequence of $Q$ queries. Primarily, for the high-dimensional regime of $d = \omega(\sqrt{Q})$, we introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Alexandr Andoni , Themistoklis Haris , Esty Kelman , Krzysztof Onak

For a metric space $(X, d)$, a family $\mathcal{H}$ of locality sensitive hash functions is called $(r, cr, p_1, p_2)$ sensitive if a randomly chosen function $h\in \mathcal{H}$ has probability at least $p_1$ (at most $p_2$) to map any $a,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Kevin Lu , Feng Luo , Cheng Xin

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) has emerged as the dominant algorithmic technique for similarity search with strong performance guarantees in high-dimensional spaces. A drawback of traditional LSH schemes is that they may have \emph{false…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ninh Pham , Rasmus Pagh

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a well-known solution for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search with theoretical guarantees. Traditional LSH-based methods mainly focus on improving the efficiency and accuracy of query phase by…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiuqi Wei , Xiaodong Lee , Botao Peng , Quanqing Xu , Chuanhui Yang , Themis Palpanas