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Approximate K nearest neighbor (AKNN) search is a fundamental and challenging problem. We observe that in high-dimensional space, the time consumption of nearly all AKNN algorithms is dominated by that of the distance comparison operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jianyang Gao , Cheng Long

We present the first systematic investigation of graph reordering effects for graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) on a GPU. While graph-based ANNS has become the dominant paradigm for modern AI applications, recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yutaro Oguri , Mai Nishimura , Yusuke Matsui

This paper studies the compact coding approach to approximate nearest neighbor search. We introduce a composite quantization framework. It uses the composition of several ($M$) elements, each of which is selected from a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Jingdong Wang , Ting Zhang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental operation in vector databases, enabling efficient similarity search in high-dimensional spaces. While dense ANNS has been optimized using specialized hardware accelerators, sparse…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tianqi Zhang , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS), as the core of vector databases (VectorDBs), has become widely used in modern AI and ML systems, powering applications from information retrieval to bio-informatics. While graph-based ANNS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dingyi Kang , Dongming Jiang , Hanshen Yang , Hang Liu , Bingzhe Li

In Domain Adaptation (DA), where the feature distributions of the source and target domains are different, various distance-based methods have been proposed to minimize the discrepancy between the source and target domains to handle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Zhixiong Yue , Pengxin Guo , Yu Zhang

A novel learnable dictionary encoding layer is proposed in this paper for end-to-end language identification. It is inline with the conventional GMM i-vector approach both theoretically and practically. We imitate the mechanism of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-03 Weicheng Cai , Zexin Cai , Xiang Zhang , Xiaoqi Wang , Ming Li

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) has recently gained significant attention due to its many applications, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Such applications require ANNS algorithms that support dynamic data, so the ANNS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tomohiro Yamashita , Daichi Amagata , Yusuke Matsui

Locality Sensitive Filters are known for offering a quasi-linear space data structure with rigorous guarantees for the Approximate Near Neighbor search (ANN) problem. Building on Locality Sensitive Filters, we derive a simple data structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Martin Aumüller , Fabrizio Boninsegna , Francesco Silvestri

Filtered approximate nearest neighbor search (FANNS), an extension of approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) that incorporates scalar filters, has been widely applied to constrained retrieval of vector data. Despite its growing…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yanjun Lin , Kai Zhang , Zhenying He , Yinan Jing , X. Sean Wang

Image enhancement is an important image processing technique that processes images suitably for a specific application e.g. image editing. The conventional solutions of image enhancement are grouped into two categories which are spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Hui Li , Xiaomeng Wang , Weifeng Liu , Yanjiang Wang

Quantization has been an effective technology in ANN (approximate nearest neighbour) search due to its high accuracy and fast search speed. To meet the requirement of different applications, there is always a trade-off between retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Jingkuan Song , Xiaosu Zhu , Lianli Gao , Xin-Shun Xu , Wu Liu , Heng Tao Shen

Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a key technique in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enabling rapid identification of the most relevant high-dimensional embeddings from massive vector databases. Modern ANNS engines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Tianqi Zhang , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is essential for various data-intensive applications, including recommendation systems, image retrieval, and machine learning. Scaling ANNS to handle billions of high-dimensional vectors on a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Qian Xu , Feng Zhang , Chengxi Li , Lei Cao , Zheng Chen , Jidong Zhai , Xiaoyong Du

Discovering fine-grained categories from coarsely labeled data is a practical and challenging task, which can bridge the gap between the demand for fine-grained analysis and the high annotation cost. Previous works mainly focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Wenkai Shi , Yan Chen , Qinghua Zheng , QianYing Wang , Ping Chen

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

Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search technique for high-dimensional feature indexing and retrieval is the crux of large-scale image retrieval. A recent promising technique is Product Quantization, which attempts to index…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Qingqun Ning , Jianke Zhu , Zhiyuan Zhong , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chun Chen

Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) is a nonparametric method for estimating the shape of a density function, given a set of samples from the distribution. Recently, locality-sensitive hashing, originally proposed as a tool for nearest neighbor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Matti Karppa , Martin Aumüller , Rasmus Pagh

Nowadays, face recognition and more generally image recognition have many applications in the modern world and are widely used in our daily tasks. This paper aims to propose a distributed approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Aysan Aghazadeh , Maryam Amirmazlaghani

Evolutionary artificial neural networks (EANNs) refer to a special class of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in which evolution is another fundamental form of adaptation in addition to learning. Evolutionary algorithms are used to adapt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ajith Abraham