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We develop methods for accelerating metric similarity search that are effective on modern hardware. Our algorithms factor into easily parallelizable components, making them simple to deploy and efficient on multicore CPUs and GPUs. Despite…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lawrence Cayton

Point cloud analytics has become a critical workload for embedded and mobile platforms across various applications. Farthest point sampling (FPS) is a fundamental and widely used kernel in point cloud processing. However, the heavy external…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Meng Han , Liang Wang , Limin Xiao , Hao Zhang , Chenhao Zhang , Xilong Xie , Shuai Zheng , Jin Dong

We study multi-finger binary search trees (BSTs), a far-reaching extension of the classical BST model, with connections to the well-studied $k$-server problem. Finger search is a popular technique for speeding up BST operations when a query…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Parinya Chalermsook , Mayank Goswami , László Kozma , Kurt Mehlhorn , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Many fundamental statistical methods have become critical tools for scientific data analysis yet do not scale tractably to modern large datasets. This paper will describe very recent algorithms based on computational geometry which have…

The $k^2$-tree is a successful compact representation of binary relations that exhibit sparseness and/or clustering properties. It can be extended to $d$ dimensions, where it is called a $k^d$-tree. The representation boils down to a long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Diego Arroyuelo , Guillermo de Bernardo , Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro

Dual-tree algorithms are a widely used class of branch-and-bound algorithms. Unfortunately, developing dual-tree algorithms for use with different trees and problems is often complex and burdensome. We introduce a four-part logical split:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Ryan R. Curtin , William B. March , Parikshit Ram , David V. Anderson , Alexander G. Gray , Charles L. Isbell

Optimization tasks over relational data, such as clustering, often suffer from the prohibitive cost of join operations, which are necessary to access the full dataset. While geometric data structures like BBD trees yield fast approximation…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

Random Indexing (RI) K-tree is the combination of two algorithms for clustering. Many large scale problems exist in document clustering. RI K-tree scales well with large inputs due to its low complexity. It also exhibits features that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Christopher M. De Vries , Lance De Vine , Shlomo Geva

Data intensive applications on clusters often require requests quickly be sent to the node managing the desired data. In many applications, one must look through a sorted tree structure to determine the responsible node for accessing or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xiaoqin Ma , Gene Cooperman

We consider the task of optimizing the B-tree data structure, used extensively in operating systems and databases, for sustainable usage on multi-level flash memory. Empirical evidence shows that this new flash memory tree, or FM Tree,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 James Clay , Kevin Wortman

In the reordering buffer problem (RBP), a server is asked to process a sequence of requests lying in a metric space. To process a request the server must move to the corresponding point in the metric. The requests can be processed slightly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Siddharth Barman , Shuchi Chawla , Seeun Umboh

Now a days many algorithms are invented or being inventing to find the solution for Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree, EMST, problem, as its applicability is increasing in much wide range of fields containing spatial or spatio temporal data…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Hazarath Munaga , Venkata Jarugumalli

The original description of the k-d tree recognized that rebalancing techniques, such as are used to build an AVL tree or a red-black tree, are not applicable to a k-d tree. Hence, in order to build a balanced k-d tree, it is necessary to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Russell A. Brown

Algorithms based on spatial tree traversal are widely regarded as among the most efficient and flexible approaches for many problems in CPU-based high-performance computing (HPC). However, directly transferring these algorithms to GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jens Stücker , Oliver Hahn , Lukas Winkler , Adrian Gutierrez Adame , Thomas Flöss

Computing fixed-radius near-neighbor graphs is an important first step for many data analysis algorithms. Near-neighbor graphs connect points that are close under some metric, endowing point clouds with a combinatorial structure. As…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Gabriel Raulet , Dmitriy Morozov , Aydin Buluc , Katherine Yelick

K-nearest neighbor (kNN) search has wide applications in many areas, including data mining, machine learning, statistics and many applied domains. Inspired by the success of ensemble methods and the flexibility of tree-based methodology, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-27 Donghui Yan , Yingjie Wang , Jin Wang , Honggang Wang , Zhenpeng Li

Range queries over multidimensional data are an important part of database workloads in many applications. Their execution may be accelerated by using multidimensional index structures (MDIS), such as kd-trees or R-trees. As for most index…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Stefan Sprenger , Patrick Schäfer , Ulf Leser

We present a novel distributed union-find algorithm that features asynchronous parallelism and k-d tree based load balancing for scalable visualization and analysis of scientific data. Applications of union-find include level set extraction…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Jiayi Xu , Hanqi Guo , Han-Wei Shen , Mukund Raj , Xueyun Wang , Xueqiao Xu , Zhehui Wang , Tom Peterka

Many data-based statistical algorithms require that one find \textit{near or nearest neighbors} to a given vector among a set of points in that vector space, usually with Euclidean topology. The k-d data structure and search algorithms are…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew B. Kennel

The problem of {\em efficiently} finding the best match for a query in a given set with respect to the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity has been extensively studied in literature. However, a closely related problem of efficiently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Parikshit Ram , Alexander G. Gray