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k-nearest neighbor graph is a key data structure in many disciplines such as manifold learning, machine learning and information retrieval, etc. NN-Descent was proposed as an effective solution for the graph construction problem. However,…

Learned dense representations are a popular family of techniques for encoding queries and documents using high-dimensional embeddings, which enable retrieval by performing approximate k nearest-neighbors search (A-kNN). A popular technique…

Near neighbor search (NNS) is a powerful abstraction for data access; however, data indexing is troublesome even for approximate indexes. For intrinsically high-dimensional data, high-quality fast searches demand either indexes with…

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental operation in vector databases, enabling efficient similarity search in high-dimensional spaces. While dense ANNS has been optimized using specialized hardware accelerators, sparse…

As deep neural networks (DNNs) become deeper, the training time increases. In this perspective, multi-GPU parallel computing has become a key tool in accelerating the training of DNNs. In this paper, we introduce a novel methodology to…

We propose a novel application of coded computing to the problem of the nearest neighbor estimation using MatDot Codes [Fahim. et.al. 2017], that are known to be optimal for matrix multiplication in terms of recovery threshold under storage…

We present a variant of the hyper-quadtree that divides a multidimensional space according to the hyperplanes associated to the principal components of the data in each hyperquadrant. Each of the $2^\lambda$ hyper-quadrants is a data…

The analyses relying on 3D point clouds are an utterly complex task, often involving million of points, but also requiring computationally efficient algorithms because of many real-time applications; e.g. autonomous vehicle. However, point…

We present an algorithm that allows for building left-balanced and complete k-d trees over k-dimensional points in a trivially parallel and GPU friendly way. Our algorithm requires exactly one int per data point as temporary storage, and…

Distributed systems can be found in various applications, e.g., in robotics or autonomous driving, to achieve higher flexibility and robustness. Thereby, data flow centric applications such as Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference benefit…

A massively parallel order-N electronic structure theory was constructed by an interdisciplinary research between physics, applied mathematics and computer science. (1) A high parallel efficiency with ten-million-atom nanomaterials was…

We present a new approach for efficient approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensional spaces, extending the idea of Product Quantization. We propose a two-level product and vector quantization tree that reduces the number of…

K-nearest neighbors (KNN) is one of the earliest and most established algorithms in machine learning. For regression tasks, KNN averages the targets within a neighborhood which poses a number of challenges: the neighborhood definition is…

Approximate nearest neighbor algorithms are used to speed up nearest neighbor search in a wide array of applications. However, current indexing methods feature several hyperparameters that need to be tuned to reach an acceptable…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely deployed across diverse domains such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, the impressive accomplishments of DNNs have been realized alongside extensive computational…

$K$-NN classifier is one of the most famous classification algorithms, whose performance is crucially dependent on the distance metric. When we consider the distance metric as a parameter of $K$-NN, learning an appropriate distance metric…

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on various computer vision tasks. Despite the superior performance achieved, the efficiency and generality of existing methods are highly valued due to their…

The k-d tree was one of the first spatial data structures proposed for nearest neighbor search. Its efficacy is diminished in high-dimensional spaces, but several variants, with randomization and overlapping cells, have proved to be…

The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) algorithm is a popular and effective classification algorithm. Due to its large storage and computational requirements, it is suitable for cloud outsourcing. However, k-NN is often run on sensitive data such…

Meeting real-time constraints for high-performance Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search remains a critical challenge in remote sensing edge devices, which are essentially fusion systems like micro-satellites and UAVs, largely due to…