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Nearest neighbor search is fundamental to a wide range of applications. Since the exact nearest neighbor search suffers from the "curse of dimensionality", approximate approaches, such as Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH), are widely used to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Huan Hu , Jianzhong Li

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

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a well-known solution for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional spaces due to its robust theoretical guarantee on query accuracy. Traditional LSH-based methods mainly focus on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jiuqi Wei , Botao Peng , Xiaodong Lee , Themis Palpanas

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

Nearest neighbor (NN) search is inherently computationally expensive in high-dimensional spaces due to the curse of dimensionality. As a well-known solution, locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is able to answer c-approximate NN (c-ANN)…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Bolong Zheng , Xi Zhao , Lianggui Weng , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hang Liu , Christian S. Jensen

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) constitutes an important operation in a multitude of applications, including recommendation systems, information retrieval, and pattern recognition. In the past decade, graph-based ANNS algorithms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mengzhao Wang , Xiaoliang Xu , Qiang Yue , Yuxiang Wang

Similarity search is a fundamental algorithmic primitive, widely used in many computer science disciplines. Given a set of points $S$ and a radius parameter $r>0$, the $r$-near neighbor ($r$-NN) problem asks for a data structure that, given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Martin Aumüller , Sariel Har-Peled , Sepideh Mahabadi , Rasmus Pagh , Francesco Silvestri

Similarity searches are a critical task in data mining. As data sets grow larger, exact nearest neighbor searches quickly become unfeasible, leading to the adoption of approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) searches. ANN has been studied for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alima Subedi , Sankalpa Pokharel , Satish Puri

The problem of landmark recognition has achieved excellent results in small-scale datasets. When dealing with large-scale retrieval, issues that were irrelevant with small amount of data, quickly become fundamental for an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Federico Magliani , Tomaso Fontanini , Andrea Prati

KNN has the reputation to be the word simplest but efficient supervised learning algorithm used for either classification or regression. KNN prediction efficiency highly depends on the size of its training data but when this training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jude Tchaye-Kondi , Yanlong Zhai , Liehuang Zhu

The approximate nearest neighbor problem ($\epsilon$-ANN) in high dimensional Euclidean space has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which has polynomial dependence in the dimension, sublinear query time, but…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Evangelos Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros

Many large multimedia applications require efficient processing of nearest neighbor queries. Often, multimedia data are represented as a collection of important high-dimensional feature vectors. Existing Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH)…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Omid Jafari , Parth Nagarkar , Jonathan Montaño

Similarity search is a fundamental algorithmic primitive, widely used in many computer science disciplines. There are several variants of the similarity search problem, and one of the most relevant is the $r$-near neighbor ($r$-NN) problem:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Martin Aumüller , Rasmus Pagh , Francesco Silvestri

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

Learning hash functions/codes for similarity search over multi-view data is attracting increasing attention, where similar hash codes are assigned to the data objects characterizing consistently neighborhood relationship across views.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lin Wu , Yang Wang

Hashing technology has been widely used in image retrieval due to its computational and storage efficiency. Recently, deep unsupervised hashing methods have attracted increasing attention due to the high cost of human annotations in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Qinghong Lin , Xiaojun Chen , Qin Zhang , Shangxuan Tian , Yudong Chen

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

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

Approximate k-Nearest Neighbour (ANN) methods are often used for mining information and aiding machine learning on large scale high-dimensional datasets. ANN methods typically differ in the index structure used for accelerating searches,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ben Harwood , Amir Dezfouli , Iadine Chades , Conrad Sanderson

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…