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We study the problem of approximating Hamming distance in sublinear time under property-preserving hashing (PPH), where only hashed representations of inputs are available. Building on the threshold evaluation framework of Fleischhacker,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Dongfang Zhao

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

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

Approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search is one of the most important problems in computer science fields such as data mining or computer vision. In this paper, we focus on ANN for high-dimensional binary vectors and we propose a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Michal Komorowski , Tomasz Trzcinski

We present a new algorithm for the $c$--approximate nearest neighbor search without false negatives for $l_2^d$. We enhance the dimension reduction method presented in \cite{wygos_red} and combine it with the standard results of Indyk and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Piotr Wygocki

KNN has the reputation to be the word simplest but efficient supervised learning algorithm used for either classification or regression. KNN prediction efficiency highly depends on the size of its training data but when this training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jude Tchaye-Kondi , Yanlong Zhai , Liehuang Zhu

Nearest-neighbor search, which returns the nearest neighbor of a query point in a set of points, is an important and widely studied problem in many fields, and it has wide range of applications. In many of them, such as sensor databases,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Boris Aronov , Sariel Har-Peled , Jeff M. Philips , Ke Yi , Wuzhou Zhang

Motivated by Johnson--Lindenstrauss dimension reduction, amplitude encoding, and the view of measurements as hash-like primitives, one might hope to compress an $n$-point approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) data structure into $O(\log n)$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Sajjad Hashemian

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental algorithmic technique widely employed in large-scale data processing applications, such as nearest-neighbor search, entity resolution, and clustering. However, its applicability in some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Runhui Wang , Luyang Kong , Yefan Tao , Andrew Borthwick , Davor Golac , Henrik Johnson , Shadie Hijazi , Dong Deng , Yongfeng Zhang

Similarity search is critical for many database applications, including the increasingly popular online services for Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval (CBMR). These services, which include image search engines, must handle an overwhelming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Thiago S. F. X. Teixeira , George Teodoro , Eduardo Valle , Joel H. Saltz

A number of recent works have studied algorithms for entrywise $\ell_p$-low rank approximation, namely, algorithms which given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$ (with $n \geq d$), output a rank-$k$ matrix $B$ minimizing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Frank Ban , Vijay Bhattiprolu , Karl Bringmann , Pavel Kolev , Euiwoong Lee , David P. Woodruff

Let $k$ be a nonnegative integer. In the approximate $k$-flat nearest neighbor ($k$-ANN) problem, we are given a set $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points in $d$-dimensional space and a fixed approximation factor $c > 1$. Our goal is to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Wolfgang Mulzer , Huy L. Nguyen , Paul Seiferth , Yannik Stein

Due to the compelling efficiency in retrieval and storage, similarity-preserving hashing has been widely applied to approximate nearest neighbor search in large-scale image retrieval. However, existing methods have poor performance in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Qi Dai , Yupan Huang , Yilong Yin

We take a first step towards a rigorous asymptotic analysis of graph-based approaches for finding (approximate) nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces, by analyzing the complexity of (randomized) greedy walks on the approximate near…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Thijs Laarhoven

Near neighbor search (NNS) is a powerful abstraction for data access; however, data indexing is troublesome even for approximate indexes. For intrinsically high-dimensional data, high-quality fast searches demand either indexes with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Eric S. Tellez , Guillermo Ruiz , Edgar Chavez , Mario Graff

We present a data structure for *spherical range reporting* on a point set $S$, i.e., reporting all points in $S$ that lie within radius $r$ of a given query point $q$. Our solution builds upon the Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) framework…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Thomas D. Ahle , Martin Aumüller , Rasmus Pagh

In this paper we show how the complexity of performing nearest neighbor (NNS) search on a metric space is related to the expansion of the metric space. Given a metric space we look at the graph obtained by connecting every pair of points…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-05 Rina Panigrahy , Kunal Talwar , Udi Wieder

Distributed frameworks are gaining increasingly widespread use in applications that process large amounts of data. One important example application is large scale similarity search, for which Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) has emerged as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Bahman Bahmani , Ashish Goel , Rajendra Shinde

In this paper, we propose a method for density-based clustering in high-dimensional spaces that combines Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) with the Quick Shift algorithm. The Quick Shift algorithm, known for its hierarchical clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sajjad Hashemian

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces is a pivotal challenge in the field of machine learning. In recent years, graph-based methods have emerged as the superior approach to ANNS, establishing a new state of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Kejing Lu , Chuan Xiao , Yoshiharu Ishikawa