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With the growing reliance on cloud services for large-scale data management, preserving the security and privacy of outsourced datasets has become increasingly critical. While encrypting data and queries can prevent direct content exposure,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zuan Wang , Juntao Lu , Jiazhuang Wu , Youliang Tian , Wei Song , Qiuxian Li , Duo Zhang

Locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental algorithmic toolkit used by data scientists for approximate nearest neighbour search problems that have been used extensively in many large scale data processing applications such as near…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Bhisham Dev Verma , Rameshwar Pratap

In this paper, we consider the problem of classification of $M$ high dimensional queries $y^1,\cdots,y^M\in B^S$ to $N$ high dimensional classes $x^1,\cdots,x^N\in A^S$ where $A$ and $B$ are discrete alphabets and the probabilistic model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Arash Gholami Davoodi , Sean Chang , Hyun Gon Yoo , Anubhav Baweja , Mihir Mongia , Hosein Mohimani

We study the Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) problem under a powerful adaptive adversary that controls both the dataset and a sequence of $Q$ queries. Primarily, for the high-dimensional regime of $d = \omega(\sqrt{Q})$, we introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Alexandr Andoni , Themistoklis Haris , Esty Kelman , Krzysztof Onak

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

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

The explosive growth in big data has attracted much attention in designing efficient indexing and search methods recently. In many critical applications such as large-scale search and pattern matching, finding the nearest neighbors to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Jun Wang , Wei Liu , Sanjiv Kumar , Shih-Fu Chang

The multichannel rendezvous problem (MRP) is a critical challenge for neighbor discovery in IoT applications, requiring two users to find each other by hopping among available channels over time. This paper addresses the MRP in scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi-Chia Cheng , Cheng-Shang Chang

Computing approximate nearest neighbors in high dimensional spaces is a central problem in large-scale data mining with a wide range of applications in machine learning and data science. A popular and effective technique in computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Lin Chen , Hossein Esfandiari , Thomas Fu , Vahab S. Mirrokni

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

The indexing algorithms for the high-dimensional nearest neighbor search (NNS) with the best worst-case guarantees are based on the randomized Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), and its derivatives. In practice, many heuristic approaches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Alexandr Andoni , Daniel Beaglehole

Context: Previous studies have shown that training data instance selection based on nearest neighborhood (NN) information can lead to better performance in cross project defect prediction (CPDP) by reducing heterogeneity in training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Seyedrebvar Hosseini , Burak Turhan

This work aims at making a comprehensive contribution in the general area of parametric inference for discretely observed diffusion processes. Established approaches for likelihood-based estimation invoke a time-discretisation scheme for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-30 Yuga Iguchi , Alexandros Beskos , Matthew M. Graham

Many large multimedia applications require efficient processing of nearest neighbor queries. Often, multimedia data are represented as a collection of important high-dimensional feature vectors. Existing Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH)…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Omid Jafari , Parth Nagarkar , Jonathan Montaño

This paper studies the $r$-range search problem for curves under the continuous Fr\'echet distance: given a dataset $S$ of $n$ polygonal curves and a threshold $r>0$, construct a data structure that, for any query curve $q$, efficiently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Matteo Ceccarello , Anne Driemel , Francesco Silvestri

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

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

Can we sense our location in an unfamiliar environment by taking a sublinear-size sample of our surroundings? Can we efficiently encrypt a message that only someone physically close to us can decrypt? To solve this kind of problems, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Elette Boyle , Itai Dinur , Niv Gilboa , Yuval Ishai , Nathan Keller , Ohad Klein

In this paper, we show a construction of locality-sensitive hash functions without false negatives, i.e., which ensure collision for every pair of points within a given radius $R$ in $d$ dimensional space equipped with $l_p$ norm when $p…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Andrzej Pacuk , Piotr Sankowski , Karol Wegrzycki , Piotr Wygocki

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