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Hierarchical graph-based algorithms such as HNSW have achieved state-of-the-art performance for Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search in practice, yet they often lack theoretical guarantees on query time or recall due to their heavy use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mohsen Dehghankar , Abolfazl Asudeh

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

Relevance Models are well-known retrieval models and capable of producing competitive results. However, because they use query expansion they can be very slow. We address this slowness by incorporating two variants of locality sensitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Dominik Wurzer , Miles Osborne , Victor Lavrenko

Along with data on the web increasing dramatically, hashing is becoming more and more popular as a method of approximate nearest neighbor search. Previous supervised hashing methods utilized similarity/dissimilarity matrix to get semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Jinma Guo , Jianmin Li

Binary hashing is a well-known approach for fast approximate nearest-neighbor search in information retrieval. Much work has focused on affinity-based objective functions involving the hash functions or binary codes. These objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Ramin Raziperchikolaei

Due to the compelling efficiency in retrieval and storage, similarity-preserving hashing has been widely applied to approximate nearest neighbor search in large-scale image retrieval. However, existing methods have poor performance in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Qi Dai , Yupan Huang , Yilong Yin

Hashing has been widely researched to solve the large-scale approximate nearest neighbor search problem owing to its time and storage superiority. In recent years, a number of online hashing methods have emerged, which can update the hash…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Wenzhe Jia , Yuan Cao , Junwei Liu , Jie Gui

Hashing is very popular for remote sensing image search. This article proposes a multiview hashing with learnable parameters to retrieve the queried images for a large-scale remote sensing dataset. Existing methods always neglect that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wenyun Li , Guo Zhong , Xingyu Lu , Chi-Man Pun

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a key retrieval technique for vector database and many data center applications, such as person re-identification and recommendation systems. It is also fundamental to retrieval augmented…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yitu Wang , Shiyu Li , Qilin Zheng , Linghao Song , Zongwang Li , Andrew Chang , Hai "Helen" Li , Yiran Chen

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

The in-memory approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms have achieved great success for fast high-recall query processing, but are extremely inefficient when handling hybrid queries with unstructured (i.e., feature vectors) and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wei Wu , Junlin He , Yu Qiao , Guoheng Fu , Li Liu , Jin Yu

In this paper, we present an experimental comparison of various graph-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithms deployed on edge devices for real-time nearest neighbor search applications, such as smart city infrastructure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Ali Ganbarov , Jicheng Yuan , Anh Le-Tuan , Manfred Hauswirth , Danh Le-Phuoc

Approximate nearest neighbor search under universal L_p metrics (ANNS-U-L_p) is an important and challenging research problem, as it requires answering queries under all possible p (0<p <= 2) values simultaneously without building an index…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Huayi Wang , Jingfan Meng , Jun Xu

With the rapid growth of textual content on the Internet, efficient large-scale semantic text retrieval has garnered increasing attention from both academia and industry. Text hashing, which projects original texts into compact binary hash…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Liyang He , Zhenya Huang , Cheng Yang , Rui Li , Zheng Zhang , Kai Zhang , Zhi Li , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

With the explosive growth of users and items, Recommender Systems are facing unprecedented challenges in terms of retrieval efficiency and storage overhead. Learning to Hash techniques have emerged as a promising solution to these issues by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Fangyuan Luo , Yankai Chen , Jun Wu , Tong Li , Philip S. Yu , Xue Liu

A growing interest has been witnessed recently from both academia and industry in building nearest neighbor search (NNS) solutions on top of full-text search engines. Compared with other NNS systems, such solutions are capable of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Cun Mu , Jun Zhao , Guang Yang , Binwei Yang , Zheng Yan

LLM-powered search services have driven data integration as a significant trend. However, this trend's progress is fundamentally hindered, despite the fact that combining individual knowledge can significantly improve the relevance and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ruoyang Rykie Guo

The era of Big Data has spawned unprecedented interests in developing hashing algorithms for efficient storage and fast nearest neighbor search. Most existing work learn hash functions that are numeric quantizations of feature values in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Kai Li , Guojun Qi , Jun Ye , Kien A. Hua

To overcome the barrier of storage and computation, the hashing technique has been widely used for nearest neighbor search in multimedia retrieval applications recently. Particularly, cross-modal retrieval that searches across different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Sarawut Markchit , Chih-Yi Chiu

We introduce a new variant of the nearest neighbor search problem, which allows for some coordinates of the dataset to be arbitrarily corrupted or unknown. Formally, given a dataset of $n$ points $P=\{ x_1,\ldots, x_n\}$ in high-dimensions,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Sariel Har-Peled , Sepideh Mahabadi