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Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

The overwhelming volume of data generated and indexed by search engines poses a significant challenge in retrieving documents from the index efficiently and effectively. Even with a well-crafted query, several relevant documents often get…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Aman Sinha , Priyanshu Raj Mall , Dwaipayan Roy

Many large-scale Web applications that require ranked top-k retrieval such as Web search and online advertising are implemented using inverted indices. An inverted index represents a sparse term-document matrix, where non-zero elements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-19 George Beskales , Marcus Fontoura , Maxim Gurevich , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Vanja Josifovski

Dense retrieval, which describes the use of contextualised language models such as BERT to identify documents from a collection by leveraging approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) techniques, has been increasing in popularity. Two families of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Craig Macdonald , Nicola Tonellotto

With the recent success of dense retrieval methods based on bi-encoders, studies have applied this approach to various interesting downstream retrieval tasks with good efficiency and in-domain effectiveness. Recently, we have also seen the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Wei Zhong , Jheng-Hong Yang , Yuqing Xie , Jimmy Lin

When two terms occur together in a document, the probability of a close relationship between them and the document itself is greater if they are in nearby positions. However, ranking functions including term proximity (TP) require larger…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Ju Yang , Jiancong Tong , Rebecca J. Stones , Zhaohua Zhang , Benjun Ye , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu

Search engines play a vital role in day to day life on internet. People use search engines to find content on internet. Cloud computing is the computing concept in which data is stored and accessed with the help of a third party server…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Simran Bijral , Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

There has been a significant effort by the research community to address the problem of providing methods to organize documentation with the help of information Retrieval methods. In this report paper, we present several experiments with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Rui Portocarrero Sarmento , Douglas O. Cardoso , João Gama , Pavel Brazdil

Due to the availability of references of research papers and the rich information contained in papers, various citation analysis approaches have been proposed to identify similar documents for scholar recommendation. Despite of the success…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Han Tian , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted many facets of natural language processing and information retrieval. Unlike previous encoder-based approaches, the enlarged context window of these generative models allows for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Andrew Parry , Sean MacAvaney , Debasis Ganguly

In this paper, we revisit the problem of indexing multi-dimensional data in memory for the efficient support of multi-dimensional range queries and nearest neighbor queries. This is a classic problem in main-memory databases, where there is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Achilleas Michalopoulos , Dimitrios Tsitsigkos , Nikos Mamoulis

We propose a computationally light method for estimating similarities between text documents, which we call the density similarity (DS) method. The method is based on a word embedding in a high-dimensional Euclidean space and on kernel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Ilia Rushkin

Nearest neighbor (NN) problem is an important scientific problem. The NN query, to find the closest one to a given query point among a set of points, is widely used in applications such as density estimation, pattern classification,…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yang Li , Gang Liu , Junbin Gao , Zhenwen He , Mingyuan Bai , Chengjun Li

Modeling sparse and dense image matching within a unified functional correspondence model has recently attracted increasing research interest. However, existing efforts mainly focus on improving matching accuracy while ignoring its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Dongli Tan , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Xingyu Chen , Chao Chen , Ruixin Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

The similarity between the question and indexed documents is a crucial factor in document retrieval for retrieval-augmented question answering. Although this is typically the only method for obtaining the relevant documents, it is not the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Neural embedding models are extensively employed in the table union search problem, which aims to find semantically compatible tables that can be merged with a given query table. In particular, multi-vector models, which represent a table…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yiming Xie , Hua Dai , Mingfeng Jiang , Pengyue Li , zhengkai Zhang , Bohan Li

We address the task of ranking objects (such as people, blogs, or verticals) that, unlike documents, do not have direct term-based representations. To be able to match them against keyword queries, evidence needs to be amassed from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Cross-lingual document search is an information retrieval task in which the queries' language differs from the documents' language. In this paper, we study the instability of neural document search models and propose a novel end-to-end…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jiapeng Liu , Xiao Zhang , Dan Goldwasser , Xiao Wang

Massive amount of data that are geo-tagged and associated with text information are being generated at an unprecedented scale in many emerging applications such as location based services and social networks. Due to their importance, a…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chengyuan Zhang , Lei Zhu , Weiren Yu , Jun Long , Fang Huang , Hongbo Zhao

Nearly all implementations of top-$k$ retrieval with dense vector representations today take advantage of hierarchical navigable small-world network (HNSW) indexes. However, the generation of vector representations and efficiently searching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jimmy Lin , Tommaso Teofili