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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

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is an important tool for managing high-dimensional noisy or uncertain data, for example in connection with data cleaning (similarity join) and noise-robust search (similarity search). However, for a number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Martin Aumüller , Tobias Christiani , Rasmus Pagh , Francesco Silvestri

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

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

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

A Locality-Sensitive Hash (LSH) function is called $(r,cr,p_1,p_2)$-sensitive, if two data-points with a distance less than $r$ collide with probability at least $p_1$ while data points with a distance greater than $cr$ collide with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

The simple approach of retrieving a closest match of a query image from one in the gallery, compares an image pair using sum of absolute difference in pixel or feature space. The process is computationally expensive, ill-posed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saket Singh , Debdoot Sheet , Mithun Dasgupta

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

Recent years have witnessed extensive attention in binary code learning, a.k.a. hashing, for nearest neighbor search problems. It has been seen that high-dimensional data points can be quantized into binary codes to give an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Hong Liu , Rongrong Ji , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang

The problem of fast items retrieval from a fixed collection is often encountered in most computer science areas, from operating system components to databases and user interfaces. We present an approach based on hash tables that focuses on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Dan Domnita , Ciprian Oprisa

Binary vector embeddings enable fast nearest neighbor retrieval in large databases of high-dimensional objects, and play an important role in many practical applications, such as image and video retrieval. We study the problem of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Fatih Cakir , Kun He , Sarah Adel Bargal , Stan Sclaroff

Locality sensitive hashing (LSH) was introduced by Indyk and Motwani (STOC `98) to give the first sublinear time algorithm for the c-approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) problem using only polynomial space. At a high level, an LSH family…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Daniel Dadush , Venkata Gandikota , Elena Grigorescu

Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is an effective method to index a set of points such that we can efficiently find the nearest neighbors of a query point. We extend this method to our novel Set-query LSH (SLSH), such that it can find the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Haim Kaplan , Jay Tenenbaum

Research on nearest-neighbor methods tends to focus somewhat dichotomously either on the statistical or the computational aspects -- either on, say, Bayes consistency and rates of convergence or on techniques for speeding up the proximity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Klim Efremenko , Aryeh Kontorovich , Moshe Noivirt

We focus on the problem of identifying samples in a set that do not conform to structured patterns represented by low-dimensional manifolds. An effective way to solve this problem is to embed data in a high dimensional space, called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Filippo Leveni , Luca Magri , Cesare Alippi , Giacomo Boracchi

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental technique for similarity search and similarity estimation in high-dimensional spaces. The basic idea is that similar objects should produce hash collisions with probability significantly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Joachim Gudmundsson , Rasmus Pagh

As data volumes continue to grow, searches in data are becoming increasingly time-consuming. Classical index structures for neighbor search are no longer sustainable due to the "curse of dimensionality". Instead, approximated index…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Li Wang , Lilon Wangner

Computing approximate nearest neighbors in high dimensional spaces is a central problem in large-scale data mining with a wide range of applications in machine learning and data science. A popular and effective technique in computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Lin Chen , Hossein Esfandiari , Thomas Fu , Vahab S. Mirrokni

Approximate nearest-neighbor search is a fundamental algorithmic problem that continues to inspire study due its essential role in numerous contexts. In contrast to most prior work, which has focused on point sets, we consider…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ahmed Abdelkader , David M. Mount

Hashing methods have been widely investigated for fast approximate nearest neighbor searching in large data sets. Most existing methods use binary vectors in lower dimensional spaces to represent data points that are usually real vectors of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Dayong Tian , Dacheng Tao