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Subspace clustering algorithms are notorious for their scalability issues because building and processing large affinity matrices are demanding. In this paper, we introduce a method that simultaneously learns an embedding space along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Tong Zhang , Pan Ji , Mehrtash Harandi , Richard Hartley , Ian Reid

Locality Sensitive Filters are known for offering a quasi-linear space data structure with rigorous guarantees for the Approximate Near Neighbor search (ANN) problem. Building on Locality Sensitive Filters, we derive a simple data structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Martin Aumüller , Fabrizio Boninsegna , Francesco Silvestri

The Approximate Near Neighbor (ANN) problem is a cornerstone in high-dimensional data analysis, with applications ranging from information retrieval to data mining. Among the most successful paradigms for solving ANN in high-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Luca Becchetti , Andrea Clementi , Luciano Gualà , Emanuele Natale , Luca Pepè Sciarria , Alessandro Straziota

We consider convex optimization problems with a possibly nonsmooth objective function in the form of a mathematical expectation. The proposed framework (AN-SPS) employs Sample Average Approximations (SAA) to approximate the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Tijana Ostojić

Approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search is one of the most important problems in computer science fields such as data mining or computer vision. In this paper, we focus on ANN for high-dimensional binary vectors and we propose a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Michal Komorowski , Tomasz Trzcinski

Much recent work has been devoted to approximate nearest neighbor queries. Motivated by applications in recommender systems, we consider approximate furthest neighbor (AFN) queries and present a simple, fast, and highly practical data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Rasmus Pagh , Francesco Silvestri , Johan Sivertsen , Matthew Skala

Approximate nearest-neighbor search is a fundamental algorithmic problem that continues to inspire study due its essential role in numerous contexts. In contrast to most prior work, which has focused on point sets, we consider…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ahmed Abdelkader , David M. Mount

We present new approximation schemes for bin packing based on the following two approaches: (1) partitioning the given problem into mostly identical sub-problems of constant size and then construct a solution by combining the solutions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Srikrishnan Divakaran

We consider the fundamental problem of decomposing a large-scale approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) problem into smaller sub-problems. The goal is to partition the input points into neighborhood-preserving shards, so that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lars Gottesbüren , Laxman Dhulipala , Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Lacki

The in-memory algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) have achieved great success for fast high-recall search, but are extremely expensive when handling very large scale database. Thus, there is an increasing request for…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Qi Chen , Bing Zhao , Haidong Wang , Mingqin Li , Chuanjie Liu , Zengzhong Li , Mao Yang , Jingdong Wang

Advances in embedding models for text, image, audio, and video drive progress across multiple domains, including retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation systems, and others. Many of these applications require an efficient method to…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Patrick Iff , Paul Bruegger , Marcin Chrapek , David Kochergin , Maciej Besta , Torsten Hoefler

Two major bottlenecks to the solution of large-scale Bayesian inverse problems are the scaling of posterior sampling algorithms to high-dimensional parameter spaces and the computational cost of forward model evaluations. Yet incomplete or…

Computation · Statistics 2016-05-03 Tiangang Cui , Youssef M. Marzouk , Karen E. Willcox

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is fundamental to modern AI applications. Most existing solutions optimize query efficiency but fail to align with the practical requirements of modern workloads. In this paper, we outline six…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kejing Lu , Zhenpeng Pan , Jianbin Qin , Yoshiharu Ishikawa , Chuan Xiao

A subspace method is introduced to solve large-scale trace ratio problems. This approach is matrix-free, requiring only the action of the two matrices involved in the trace ratio. At each iteration, a smaller trace ratio problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-04 G. Ferrandi , M. E. Hochstenbach , M. R. Oliveira

A $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$NN) query determines the $k$ nearest points, using distance metrics, from a specific location. An all $k$-nearest neighbor (A$k$NN) query constitutes a variation of a $k$NN query and retrieves the $k$ nearest…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Nikolaos Nodarakis , Spyros Sioutas , Dimitrios Tsoumakos , Giannis Tzimas , Evaggelia Pitoura

Approximate near-neighbors search (\textsc{ANNS}) is a long-studied problem in computational geometry. %that has received considerable attention by researchers in the community. In this paper, we revisit the problem and propose the first…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Majid Mirzanezhad

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) has recently gained significant attention due to its many applications, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Such applications require ANNS algorithms that support dynamic data, so the ANNS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tomohiro Yamashita , Daichi Amagata , Yusuke Matsui

We study spectral algorithms for the high-dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search problem (NNS). In particular, we consider a semi-random setting where a dataset $P$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is chosen arbitrarily from an unknown subspace of low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Amirali Abdullah , Alexandr Andoni , Ravindran Kannan , Robert Krauthgamer

The increase in the dimensionality of neural embedding models has enhanced the accuracy of semantic search capabilities but also amplified the computational demands for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searches (ANNS). This complexity poses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jingjia Luo , Mingxing Zhang , Kang Chen , Xia Liao , Yingdi Shan , Jinlei Jiang , Yongwei Wu

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