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Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) has emerged as the dominant algorithmic technique for similarity search with strong performance guarantees in high-dimensional spaces. A drawback of traditional LSH schemes is that they may have \emph{false…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ninh Pham , Rasmus Pagh

Locality sensitive hashing (LSH) was introduced by Indyk and Motwani (STOC `98) to give the first sublinear time algorithm for the c-approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) problem using only polynomial space. At a high level, an LSH family…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Daniel Dadush , Venkata Gandikota , Elena Grigorescu

For a metric space $(X, d)$, a family $\mathcal{H}$ of locality sensitive hash functions is called $(r, cr, p_1, p_2)$ sensitive if a randomly chosen function $h\in \mathcal{H}$ has probability at least $p_1$ (at most $p_2$) to map any $a,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Kevin Lu , Feng Luo , Cheng Xin

This work suggests faster and space-efficient index construction algorithms for LSH for Euclidean distance (\textit{a.k.a.}~\ELSH) and cosine similarity (\textit{a.k.a.}~\SRP). The index construction step of these LSHs relies on grouping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bhisham Dev Verma , Rameshwar Pratap

This paper introduces "Multi-Level Spherical LSH": parameter-free, a multi-level, data-dependant Locality Sensitive Hashing data structure for solving the Approximate Near Neighbors Problem (ANN). This data structure uses a modified version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Teresa Nicole Brooks , Rania Almajalid

We present a GPU-based Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) algorithm to speed up beam search for sequence models. We utilize the winner-take-all (WTA) hash, which is based on relative ranking order of hidden dimensions and thus resilient to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Xing Shi , Shizhen Xu , Kevin Knight

With the rapid development of GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) technologies and neural networks, we can explore more appropriate data structures and algorithms. Recent progress shows that neural networks can partly replace traditional data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Renyang Liu , Jun Zhao , Xing Chu , Yu Liang , Wei Zhou , Jing He

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

We consider a new construction of locality-sensitive hash functions for Hamming space that is \emph{covering} in the sense that is it guaranteed to produce a collision for every pair of vectors within a given radius $r$. The construction is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Rasmus Pagh

Dimension reduction is a key algorithmic tool with many applications including nearest-neighbor search, compressed sensing and linear algebra in the streaming model. In this work we obtain a {\em sparse} version of the fundamental tool in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Anirban Dasgupta , Ravi Kumar , Tamás Sarlós

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

Finding nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces is a fundamental operation in many diverse application domains. Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is one of the most popular techniques for finding approximate nearest neighbor searches in…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Omid Jafari , Preeti Maurya , Parth Nagarkar , Khandker Mushfiqul Islam , Chidambaram Crushev

Finding nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces is a fundamental operation in many multimedia retrieval applications. Exact tree-based indexing approaches are known to suffer from the notorious curse of dimensionality for…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Omid Jafari , Parth Nagarkar

Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is an effective method to index a set of points such that we can efficiently find the nearest neighbors of a query point. We extend this method to our novel Set-query LSH (SLSH), such that it can find the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Haim Kaplan , Jay Tenenbaum

In this paper we provide an $\tilde{O}(nd+d^{3})$ time randomized algorithm for solving linear programs with $d$ variables and $n$ constraints with high probability. To obtain this result we provide a robust, primal-dual…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jan van den Brand , Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford , Zhao Song

Among many solutions to the high-dimensional approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is known for its sub-linear query time and robust theoretical guarantee on query accuracy. Traditional LSH…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yao Tian , Xi Zhao , Xiaofang Zhou

We present a new data structure for the c-approximate near neighbor problem (ANN) in the Euclidean space. For n points in R^d, our algorithm achieves O(n^{\rho} + d log n) query time and O(n^{1 + \rho} + d log n) space, where \rho <=…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Alexandr Andoni , Piotr Indyk , Huy L. Nguyen , Ilya Razenshteyn

We investigate the problem of finding reverse nearest neighbors efficiently. Although provably good solutions exist for this problem in low or fixed dimensions, to this date the methods proposed in high dimensions are mostly heuristic. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-11-24 David Arthur , Steve Y. Oudot

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

The sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform is one of the central techniques in dimensionality reduction. It supports embedding a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $m=O(\varepsilon^{-2} \lg n)$ dimensions while preserving all pairwise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Mikael Møller Høgsgaard , Lion Kamma , Kasper Green Larsen , Jelani Nelson , Chris Schwiegelshohn