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Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is an effective method of indexing a set of items to support efficient nearest neighbors queries in high-dimensional spaces. The basic idea of LSH is that similar items should produce hash collisions with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Haim Kaplan , Jay Tenenbaum

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

Near neighbor problems are fundamental in algorithms for high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. While classical approaches suffer from the curse of dimensionality, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) can effectively solve a-approximate r-near…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH), introduced by Indyk and Motwani in STOC '98, has been an extremely influential framework for nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data sets. While theoretical work has focused on the approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Tobias Christiani , Rasmus Pagh , Mikkel Thorup

The $c$-approximate Near Neighbor problem in high dimensional spaces has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which offers polynomial dependence on the dimension, query time sublinear in the size of the dataset, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Georgia Avarikioti , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros , Georgios Samaras

Nearest-neighbor query processing is a fundamental operation for many image retrieval applications. Often, images are stored and represented by high-dimensional vectors that are generated by feature-extraction algorithms. Since tree-based…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Omid Jafari , Khandker Mushfiqul Islam , Parth Nagarkar

We show that approximate similarity (near neighbour) search can be solved in high dimensions with performance matching state of the art (data independent) Locality Sensitive Hashing, but with a guarantee of no false negatives. Specifically,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

We discuss the problem of performing similarity search over function spaces. To perform search over such spaces in a reasonable amount of time, we use {\it locality-sensitive hashing} (LSH). We present two methods that allow LSH functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Will Shand , Stephen Becker

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

The Indyk-Motwani Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) framework (STOC 1998) is a general technique for constructing a data structure to answer approximate near neighbor queries by using a distribution $\mathcal{H}$ over locality-sensitive hash…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Tobias Christiani

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

We provide a variant of cross-polytope locality sensitive hashing with respect to angular distance which is provably optimal in asymptotic sensitivity and enjoys $\mathcal{O}(d \ln d )$ hash computation time. Building on a recent result (by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Christopher Kennedy , Rachel Ward

The indexing algorithms for the high-dimensional nearest neighbor search (NNS) with the best worst-case guarantees are based on the randomized Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), and its derivatives. In practice, many heuristic approaches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Alexandr Andoni , Daniel Beaglehole

The explosive growth in big data has attracted much attention in designing efficient indexing and search methods recently. In many critical applications such as large-scale search and pattern matching, finding the nearest neighbors to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Jun Wang , Wei Liu , Sanjiv Kumar , Shih-Fu Chang

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 present a new algorithm for the approximate near neighbor problem that combines classical ideas from group testing with locality-sensitive hashing (LSH). We reduce the near neighbor search problem to a group testing problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Joshua Engels , Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Data similarity (or distance) computation is a fundamental research topic which fosters a variety of similarity-based machine learning and data mining applications. In big data analytics, it is impractical to compute the exact similarity of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Wei Wu , Bin Li

Locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is one of the widely-used approaches to approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces. The first work on LSH for the Euclidean distance, E2LSH, showed how ANNS can be solved…

We present a simple but powerful reinterpretation of kernelized locality-sensitive hashing (KLSH), a general and popular method developed in the vision community for performing approximate nearest-neighbor searches in an arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ke Jiang , Qichao Que , Brian Kulis

Locality-sensitive hashing~[Indyk,Motwani'98] is a classical data structure for approximate nearest neighbor search. It allows, after a close to linear time preprocessing of the input dataset, to find an approximately nearest neighbor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Christian Sohler