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The $c$-approximate Near Neighbor problem in high dimensional spaces has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which offers polynomial dependence on the dimension, query time sublinear in the size of the dataset, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Georgia Avarikioti , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros , Georgios Samaras

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH), introduced by Indyk and Motwani in STOC '98, has been an extremely influential framework for nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data sets. While theoretical work has focused on the approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Tobias Christiani , Rasmus Pagh , Mikkel Thorup

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

In this paper, we show a construction of locality-sensitive hash functions without false negatives, i.e., which ensure collision for every pair of points within a given radius $R$ in $d$ dimensional space equipped with $l_p$ norm when $p…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Andrzej Pacuk , Piotr Sankowski , Karol Wegrzycki , Piotr Wygocki

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 fundamental algorithmic toolkit used by data scientists for approximate nearest neighbour search problems that have been used extensively in many large scale data processing applications such as near…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Bhisham Dev Verma , Rameshwar Pratap

Space partitions of $\mathbb{R}^d$ underlie a vast and important class of fast nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithms. Inspired by recent theoretical work on NNS for general metric spaces [Andoni, Naor, Nikolov, Razenshteyn, Waingarten…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Yihe Dong , Piotr Indyk , Ilya Razenshteyn , Tal Wagner

Near neighbor problems are fundamental in algorithms for high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. While classical approaches suffer from the curse of dimensionality, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) can effectively solve a-approximate r-near…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental problem in many areas of machine learning and data mining. During the past decade, numerous hashing algorithms are proposed to solve this problem. Every proposed algorithm claims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Deng Cai

The indexing algorithms for the high-dimensional nearest neighbor search (NNS) with the best worst-case guarantees are based on the randomized Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), and its derivatives. In practice, many heuristic approaches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Alexandr Andoni , Daniel Beaglehole

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

While the problem of approximate nearest neighbor search has been well-studied for Euclidean space and $\ell_1$, few non-trivial algorithms are known for $\ell_p$ when ($2 < p < \infty$). In this paper, we revisit this fundamental problem…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Yair Bartal , Lee-Ad Gottlieb

[See the paper for the full abstract.] We show tight upper and lower bounds for time-space trade-offs for the $c$-Approximate Near Neighbor Search problem. For the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space and $n$-point datasets, we develop a data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Alexandr Andoni , Thijs Laarhoven , Ilya Razenshteyn , Erik Waingarten

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

Given a metric space $(X,d_X)$, $c\ge 1$, $r>0$, and $p,q\in [0,1]$, a distribution over mappings $\h:X\to \mathbb N$ is called a $(r,cr,p,q)$-sensitive hash family if any two points in $X$ at distance at most $r$ are mapped by $\h$ to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rajeev Motwani , Assaf Naor , Rina Panigrahy

Approximate nearest neighbor search under universal L_p metrics (ANNS-U-L_p) is an important and challenging research problem, as it requires answering queries under all possible p (0<p <= 2) values simultaneously without building an index…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Huayi Wang , Jingfan Meng , Jun Xu

Locality-sensitive hashing~[Indyk,Motwani'98] is a classical data structure for approximate nearest neighbor search. It allows, after a close to linear time preprocessing of the input dataset, to find an approximately nearest neighbor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Christian Sohler

Nearest Neighbor(s) search is the fundamental computational primitive to tackle massive dataset. Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) has been a bracing tool for Nearest Neighbor(s) search in high dimensional spaces. However, traditional LSH…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Nan Zhu , Wenbo He , Xue Liu , Yu Hua

We study the $r$-near neighbors reporting problem ($r$-NN), i.e., reporting \emph{all} points in a high-dimensional point set $S$ that lie within a radius $r$ of a given query point $q$. Our approach builds upon on the locality-sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Ninh Pham

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