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Retrieval pipelines commonly rely on a term-based search to obtain candidate records, which are subsequently re-ranked. Some candidates are missed by this approach, e.g., due to a vocabulary mismatch. We address this issue by replacing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Leonid Boytsov , David Novak , Yury Malkov , Eric Nyberg

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) plays a critical role in various disciplines spanning data mining and artificial intelligence, from information retrieval and computer vision to natural language processing and recommender systems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Hiroyuki Ootomo , Akira Naruse , Corey Nolet , Ray Wang , Tamas Feher , Yong Wang

Search engines and recommendation systems are built to efficiently display relevant information from those massive amounts of candidates. Typically a three-stage mechanism is employed in those systems: (i) a small collection of items are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Weijie Zhao , Shulong Tan , Ping Li

Approximate k-Nearest Neighbor (AKNN) search is widely used in vector databases. When vectors carry additional attributes (e.g., labels or numerical values), filtered AKNN search retrieves the nearest vectors to a query vector under…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Wenxuan Xia , Mingyu Yang , Wentao Li , Wei Wang

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) plays an indispensable role in a wide variety of applications, including recommendation systems, information retrieval, and semantic search. Among the cutting-edge ANNS algorithms, graph-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Weihong Xu , Junwei Chen , Po-Kai Hsu , Jaeyoung Kang , Minxuan Zhou , Sumukh Pinge , Shimeng Yu , Tajana Rosing

This paper presents a novel nearest neighbor search algorithm achieving TPU (Google Tensor Processing Unit) peak performance, outperforming state-of-the-art GPU algorithms with similar level of recall. The design of the proposed algorithm…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Felix Chern , Blake Hechtman , Andy Davis , Ruiqi Guo , David Majnemer , Sanjiv Kumar

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

Data-intensive workloads and applications, such as machine learning (ML), are fundamentally limited by traditional computing systems based on the von-Neumann architecture. As data movement operations and energy consumption become key…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Mehdi Hassanpour , Marc Riera , Antonio González

K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) search is a fundamental algorithm in artificial intelligence software with applications in robotics, and autonomous vehicles. These wide-ranging applications utilize KNN either directly for simple classification or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Aryan Naim , Joseph Bowkett , Sisir Karumanchi , Peyman Tavallali , Brett Kennedy

Motivated by applications in computer vision and databases, we introduce and study the Simultaneous Nearest Neighbor Search (SNN) problem. Given a set of data points, the goal of SNN is to design a data structure that, given a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Piotr Indyk , Robert Kleinberg , Sepideh Mahabadi , Yang Yuan

In-memory computing is an emerging computing paradigm that overcomes the limitations of exiting Von-Neumann computing architectures such as the memory-wall bottleneck. In such paradigm, the computations are performed directly on the data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Mohammed E. Fouda , Hasan Erdem Yantir , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Fadi Kurdahi

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) constitutes an important operation in a multitude of applications, including recommendation systems, information retrieval, and pattern recognition. In the past decade, graph-based ANNS algorithms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mengzhao Wang , Xiaoliang Xu , Qiang Yue , Yuxiang Wang

We develop methods for accelerating metric similarity search that are effective on modern hardware. Our algorithms factor into easily parallelizable components, making them simple to deploy and efficient on multicore CPUs and GPUs. Despite…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lawrence Cayton

The approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem is fundamental to efficiently serving many real-world machine learning applications. A number of techniques have been developed for ANN search that are efficient, accurate, and scalable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Philip Sun , Ruiqi Guo , Sanjiv Kumar

Similarity search in high-dimentional spaces is a pivotal operation found a variety of database applications. Recently, there has been an increase interest in similarity search for online content-based multimedia services. Those services,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-09-04 George Teodoro , Eduardo Valle , Nathan Mariano , Ricardo Torres , Wagner Meira , Joel H. Saltz

The k-nearest neighbors (kNN) algorithm is a cornerstone of non-parametric classification in artificial intelligence, yet its deployment in large-scale applications is persistently constrained by the computational trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jiaye Li , Gang Chen , Hang Xu , Shichao Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNN) has been successfully applied to operate on the graph-structured data. Given a specific scenario, rich human expertise and tremendous laborious trials are usually required to identify a suitable GNN architecture.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixiong Zhou , Qingquan Song , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

The data-driven computing paradigm initially introduced by Kirchdoerfer and Ortiz (2016) enables finite element computations in solid mechanics to be performed directly from material data sets, without an explicit material model. From a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Robert Eggersmann , Laurent Stainier , Michael Ortiz , Stefanie Reese

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a widely applied technique in modern intelligent applications, such as recommendation systems and vector databases. Therefore, efficient and high-throughput execution of ANN search has become…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zihan Liu , Wentao Ni , Jingwen Leng , Yu Feng , Cong Guo , Quan Chen , Chao Li , Minyi Guo , Yuhao Zhu

The complexity of nearest-neighbor search dominates the asymptotic running time of many sampling-based motion-planning algorithms. However, collision detection is often considered to be the computational bottleneck in practice. Examining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Michal Kleinbort , Oren Salzman , Dan Halperin