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Efficient indexing and searching of high dimensional data has been an area of active research due to the growing exploitation of high dimensional data and the vulnerability of traditional search methods to the curse of dimensionality. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yu Zhong

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high dimensional spaces is crucial for many real-life applications (e.g., e-commerce, web, multimedia, etc.) dealing with an abundance of data. This paper proposes an end-to-end learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Abrar Fahim , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Muhammad Aamir Cheema

Existing methods for retrieving k-nearest neighbours suffer from the curse of dimensionality. We argue this is caused in part by inherent deficiencies of space partitioning, which is the underlying strategy used by most existing methods. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik

Our context of interest is how binary locality sensitive hash (LSH) functions can be used to solve the approximate near neighbour (ANN) problem, which seeks to find the k closest elements of some dataset X to some further point q presented…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ben Claydon , Richard Connor , Alan Dearle

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) based frameworks have been used efficiently to select weight vectors in a dense hidden layer with high cosine similarity to an input, enabling dynamic pruning. While this type of scheme has been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Tahseen Rabbani , Marco Bornstein , Furong Huang

Networks are ubiquitous in the real world. Link prediction, as one of the key problems for network-structured data, aims to predict whether there exists a link between two nodes. The traditional approaches are based on the explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Wei Wu , Bin Li , Chuan Luo , Wolfgang Nejdl

Recently, hashing methods have been widely used in large-scale image retrieval. However, most existing hashing methods did not consider the hierarchical relation of labels, which means that they ignored the rich information stored in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Dan Wang , Heyan Huang , Chi Lu , Bo-Si Feng , Liqiang Nie , Guihua Wen , Xian-Ling Mao

How data is represented and operationalized is critical for building computational solutions that are both effective and efficient. A common approach is to represent data objects as binary vectors, denoted \textit{hash codes}, which require…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Casper Hansen

Hashing has been widely used for large-scale search due to its low storage cost and fast query speed. By using supervised information, supervised hashing can significantly outperform unsupervised hashing. Recently, discrete supervised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Qing-Yuan Jiang , Xue Cui , Wu-Jun Li

We propose a new algorithm for fast approximate nearest neighbor search based on the properties of ordered vectors. Data vectors are classified based on the index and sign of their largest components, thereby partitioning the space in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Luisa Verdoliva , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi

Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) is a fundamental problem in data structures with wide-ranging applications, such as web search, recommendation systems, and, more recently, retrieval-augmented generations (RAG). In such recent applications, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siddharth Barman , Nirjhar Das , Shivam Gupta , Kirankumar Shiragur

Image hashing is a popular technique applied to large scale content-based visual retrieval due to its compact and efficient binary codes. Our work proposes a new end-to-end deep network architecture for supervised hashing which directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Dang-Khoa Le Tan , Thanh-Toan Do , Ngai-Man Cheung

In large scale systems, approximate nearest neighbour search is a crucial algorithm to enable efficient data retrievals. Recently, deep learning-based hashing algorithms have been proposed as a promising paradigm to enable data dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Jo Schlemper , Jose Caballero , Andy Aitken , Joost van Amersfoort

This work proposes deep network models and learning algorithms for unsupervised and supervised binary hashing. Our novel network design constrains one hidden layer to directly output the binary codes. This addresses a challenging issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Thanh-Toan Do , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ngai-Man Cheung

This paper proposes a binarization scheme for vectors of high dimension based on the recent concept of anti-sparse coding, and shows its excellent performance for approximate nearest neighbor search. Unlike other binarization schemes, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Hervé Jégou , Teddy Furon , Jean-Jacques Fuchs

Hashing has been widely used for efficient similarity search based on its query and storage efficiency. To obtain better precision, most studies focus on designing different objective functions with different constraints or penalty terms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Yilong Yin

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

Nearest Neighbor(s) search is the fundamental computational primitive to tackle massive dataset. Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) has been a bracing tool for Nearest Neighbor(s) search in high dimensional spaces. However, traditional LSH…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Nan Zhu , Wenbo He , Xue Liu , Yu Hua

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in computer science for which in-memory graph-based methods, such as Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW), perform exceptionally well. To scale beyond billions of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Manuel Widmoser , Daniel Kocher , Nikolaus Augsten

Approximate nearest-neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms are a key part of the modern deep learning stack due to enabling efficient similarity search over high-dimensional vector space representations (i.e., embeddings) of data. Among various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Magdalen Dobson Manohar , Zheqi Shen , Guy E. Blelloch , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri , Yihan Sun