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This paper studies the neural architecture search (NAS) problem for developing efficient generator networks. Compared with deep models for visual recognition tasks, generative adversarial network (GAN) are usually designed to conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jiahao Wang , Han Shu , Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Yunhe Wang

The neighbourhood matrix, $\mathcal{NM}(G)$, a novel representation of graphs proposed in \cite {ALPaper} is defined using the neighbourhood sets of the vertices. The matrix also exhibits a bijection between the product of two well-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Sivakumar Karunakaran , Lavanya Selvaganesh

k nearest neighbor join (kNN join), designed to find k nearest neighbors from a dataset S for every object in another dataset R, is a primitive operation widely adopted by many data mining applications. As a combination of the k nearest…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Wei Lu , Yanyan Shen , Su Chen , Beng Chin Ooi

In this article, we propose a new fast nearest neighbor search algorithm, based on vector quantization. Like many other branch and bound search algorithms [1,10], a preprocessing recursively partitions the data set into disjointed subsets…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-26 Sylvain Corlay

For an edge-weighted connected undirected graph, the minimum $k$-way cut problem is to find a subset of edges of minimum total weight whose removal separates the graph into $k$ connected components. The problem is NP-hard when $k$ is part…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Mingyu Xiao , Leizhen Cai , Andrew C. Yao

In this survey paper, we analyze image based graph neural networks and propose a three-step classification approach. We first convert the image into superpixels using the Quickshift algorithm so as to reduce 30% of the input data. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Usman Nazir , He Wang , Murtaza Taj

Range-filtering approximate $k$-nearest neighbor (RFAKNN) search takes as input a vector and a numeric value, returning $k$ points from a database of $N$ high-dimensional points. The returned points must satisfy two criteria: their numeric…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mingyu Yang , Wentao Li , Zhitao Shen , Chuan Xiao , Wei Wang

The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) is a basic machine learning (ML) algorithm, and several quantum versions of it, employing different distance metrics, have been presented in the last few years. Although the Euclidean distance is one of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) over high-dimensional vectors is a foundational problem in databases, where disk I/O often emerges as the dominant performance bottleneck at scale. To accelerate search, graph-based indexes rely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Huiling Li , Xin Huang , Byron Choi , Jianliang Xu

We consider alternate formulations of recently proposed hierarchical Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Process (NNGP) models (Datta et al., 2016a) for improved convergence, faster computing time, and more robust and reproducible Bayesian inference.…

We initiate the study of multi-attribute group fairness in $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) search over vector databases. Unlike prior work that optimizes efficiency or query filtering, fairness imposes count constraints to ensure proportional…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Thinh On , Senjuti Basu Roy , Baruch Schieber

We demonstrate that a graph-based search algorithm-relying on the construction of an approximate neighborhood graph-can directly work with challenging non-metric and/or non-symmetric distances without resorting to metric-space mapping…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Leonid Boytsov , Eric Nyberg

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional Euclidean space has a broad range of applications. Among existing ANN algorithms, graph-based methods have shown superior performance in terms of the time-accuracy trade-off.…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yutong Gou , Jianyang Gao , Yuexuan Xu , Cheng Long

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a key retrieval technique for vector database and many data center applications, such as person re-identification and recommendation systems. It is also fundamental to retrieval augmented…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yitu Wang , Shiyu Li , Qilin Zheng , Linghao Song , Zongwang Li , Andrew Chang , Hai "Helen" Li , Yiran Chen

We develop methods for accelerating metric similarity search that are effective on modern hardware. Our algorithms factor into easily parallelizable components, making them simple to deploy and efficient on multicore CPUs and GPUs. Despite…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lawrence Cayton

Though nearest neighbor Machine Translation ($k$NN-MT) \citep{khandelwal2020nearest} has proved to introduce significant performance boosts over standard neural MT systems, it is prohibitively slow since it uses the entire reference corpus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Xiayu Zheng , Fei Wu , Xiaofei Sun , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li

We revisit the moving k nearest neighbor (MkNN) query, which computes one's k nearest neighbor set and maintains it while at move. Existing MkNN algorithms are mostly safe region based, which lack efficiency due to either computing small…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Chuanwen Li , Yu Gu , Jianzhong Qi , Ge Yu , Rui Zhang , Qingxu Deng

Learning an algorithm from examples is a fundamental problem that has been widely studied. Recently it has been addressed using neural networks, in particular by Neural Turing Machines (NTMs). These are fully differentiable computers that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Łukasz Kaiser , Ilya Sutskever

Sorting is a fundamental operation in computer science and is a bottleneck in many important fields. Sorting is critical to database applications, online search and indexing,biomedical computing, and many other applications. The explosive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Dmitri I. Arkhipov , Di Wu , Keqin Li , Amelia C. Regan

The fastest indexes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search today are also the slowest to build: graph-based methods like HNSW and Vamana achieve state-of-the-art query performance but have large construction times due to relying on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tobias Rubel , Richard Wen , Laxman Dhulipala , Lars Gottesbüren , Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Łącki