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Weighted minwise hashing is a standard dimensionality reduction technique with applications to similarity search and large-scale kernel machines. We introduce a simple algorithm that takes a weighted set $x \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}^{d}$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Tobias Christiani

We develop a scalable algorithm to learn binary hash codes for indexing large-scale datasets. Near-isometric binary hashing (NIBH) is a data-dependent hashing scheme that quantizes the output of a learned low-dimensional embedding to obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Amirali Aghazadeh , Andrew Lan , Anshumali Shrivastava , Richard Baraniuk

Deep hashing has shown promising performance in large-scale image retrieval. However, latent codes extracted by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) will inevitably lose semantic information during the binarization process, which damages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Chengyin Xu , Zenghao Chai , Zhengzhuo Xu , Hongjia Li , Qiruyi Zuo , Lingyu Yang , Chun Yuan

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

We study the problem of computing similarity joins under edit distance on a set of strings. Edit similarity joins is a fundamental problem in databases, data mining and bioinformatics. It finds important applications in data cleaning and…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Haoyu Zhang , Qin Zhang

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

Learning from set-structured data is an essential problem with many applications in machine learning and computer vision. This paper focuses on non-parametric and data-independent learning from set-structured data using approximate nearest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yuzhe Lu , Xinran Liu , Andrea Soltoggio , Soheil Kolouri

The facility location problem is widely used for summarizing large datasets and has additional applications in sensor placement, image retrieval, and clustering. One difficulty of this problem is that submodular optimization algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-09 Erik M. Lindgren , Shanshan Wu , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Deep hashing has been widely adopted for large-scale image retrieval, with numerous strategies proposed to optimize hash function learning. Pairwise-based methods are effective in learning hash functions that preserve local similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xiaoxu Ma , Runhao Li , Zhenyu Weng

With the adoption of multiple digital devices in everyday life, the cyber-attack surface has increased. Adversaries are continuously exploring new avenues to exploit them and deploy malware. On the other hand, detection approaches typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Aink Acrie Soe Thein , Nikolaos Pitropakis , Pavlos Papadopoulos , Sam Grierson , Sana Ullah Jan

We present a new locality sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm for $c$-approximate nearest neighbor search in $\ell_p$ with $1<p<2$. For a database of $n$ points in $\ell_p$, we achieve $O(dn^{\rho})$ query time and $O(dn+n^{1+\rho})$ space,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Huy L. Nguyen

A function $f : U \to \{0,\ldots,n-1\}$ is a minimal perfect hash function for a set $S \subseteq U$ of size $n$, if $f$ bijectively maps $S$ into the first $n$ natural numbers. These functions are important for many practical applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Roberto Trani

In Near-Neighbor Search (NNS), a new client queries a database (held by a server) for the most similar data (near-neighbors) given a certain similarity metric. The Privacy-Preserving variant (PP-NNS) requires that neither server nor the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-18 M. Sadegh Riazi , Beidi Chen , Anshumali Shrivastava , Dan Wallach , Farinaz Koushanfar

Context: Previous studies have shown that training data instance selection based on nearest neighborhood (NN) information can lead to better performance in cross project defect prediction (CPDP) by reducing heterogeneity in training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Seyedrebvar Hosseini , Burak Turhan

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

We present a framework for similarity search based on Locality-Sensitive Filtering (LSF), generalizing the Indyk-Motwani (STOC 1998) Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) framework to support space-time tradeoffs. Given a family of filters,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Tobias Christiani

Hashing has been widely used for large-scale approximate nearest neighbor search because of its storage and search efficiency. Recent work has found that deep supervised hashing can significantly outperform non-deep supervised hashing in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Qing-Yuan Jiang , Wu-Jun Li

One way to find closest pairs in large datasets is to use hash functions. In recent years locality-sensitive hash functions for various metrics have been given: projecting an n-cube onto k bits is simple hash function that performs well. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Daniel M. Gordon , Victor Miller , Peter Ostapenko

Learning-based hashing algorithms are ``hot topics" because they can greatly increase the scale at which existing methods operate. In this paper, we propose a new learning-based hashing method called ``fast supervised discrete hashing"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jie Gui , Tongliang Liu , Zhenan Sun , Dacheng Tao , Tieniu Tan

All-pairs set similarity is a widely used data mining task, even for large and high-dimensional datasets. Traditionally, similarity search has focused on discovering very similar pairs, for which a variety of efficient algorithms are known.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Cyrus Rashtchian , Aneesh Sharma , David P. Woodruff