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Learning graph-structured data with graph neural networks (GNNs) has been recently emerging as an important field because of its wide applicability in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, social network analysis and data mining. Recent GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Cheolhyeong Kim , Haeseong Moon , Hyung Ju Hwang

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in computer science for which in-memory graph-based methods, such as Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW), perform exceptionally well. To scale beyond billions of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Manuel Widmoser , Daniel Kocher , Nikolaus Augsten

The k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) classification algorithm is one of the most widely-used lazy classifiers because of its simplicity and ease of implementation. It is considered to be an effective classifier and has many applications. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Stefanos Ougiaroglou , Georgios Evangelidis , Dimitris A. Dervos

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a core primitive in modern AI systems, and graph-based methods currently offer the best accuracy-efficiency trade-off at scale. The workload is fundamentally memory-bound: graph traversal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sitian Chen , Yusen Li , Yao Chen , Minwen Deng , Jintao Meng , Amelie Chi Zhou

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has become vital to modern AI infrastructure, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. Numerous in-browser ANNS engines have emerged to seamlessly integrate with popular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Mugeng Liu , Siqi Zhong , Qi Yang , Yudong Han , Xuanzhe Liu , Yun Ma

Nearest neighbor search on high-dimensional vectors is fundamental in modern AI and database systems. In many real-world applications, queries involve constraints on multiple numeric attributes, giving rise to range-filtering approximate…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuanhang Yu , Dawei Cheng , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

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

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 $k$ nearest neighbor (AKNN) search in high-dimensional space is a foundational problem in vector databases with widespread applications. Among the numerous AKNN indexes, Proximity Graph-based indexes achieve state-of-the-art…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Liuchang Jing , Mingyu Yang , Lei Li , Jianbin Qin , Wei Wang

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

Model-based methods for recommender systems have been studied extensively for years. Modern recommender systems usually resort to 1) representation learning models which define user-item preference as the distance between their embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Rihan Chen , Bin Liu , Han Zhu , Yaoxuan Wang , Qi Li , Buting Ma , Qingbo Hua , Jun Jiang , Yunlong Xu , Hongbo Deng , Bo Zheng

In this paper we propose an online approximate k-nn graph building algorithm, which is able to quickly update a k-nn graph using a flow of data points. One very important step of the algorithm consists in using the current distributed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Thibault Debatty , Pietro Michiardi , Wim Mees

Subgraph matching query is a fundamental problem in graph data management and has a variety of real-world applications. Several recent works utilize deep learning (DL) techniques to process subgraph matching queries. Most of them find…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bin Yang , Zhaonian Zou , Jianxiong Ye

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces finds extensive applications in databases, information retrieval, recommender systems, etc. While graph-based methods have emerged as the leading solution for ANNS due to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiancheng Ruan , Tingyang Chen , Renchi Yang , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to various fields for learning over graph-structured data. They have shown significant improvements over traditional heuristic methods in various tasks such as node classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Seongjun Yun , Seoyoon Kim , Junhyun Lee , Jaewoo Kang , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Similarity searches are a critical task in data mining. As data sets grow larger, exact nearest neighbor searches quickly become unfeasible, leading to the adoption of approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) searches. ANN has been studied for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alima Subedi , Sankalpa Pokharel , Satish Puri

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

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a crucial problem in information retrieval and AI applications. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in graph-based ANNS algorithms due to their superior efficiency and accuracy.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenxin Li , Shuibing He , Jiahao Guo , Xuechen Zhang , Xian-He Sun , Gang Chen

Graph similarity search is among the most important graph-based applications, e.g. finding the chemical compounds that are most similar to a query compound. Graph similarity computation, such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) and Maximum Common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Song Bian , Ting Chen , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional space is an essential operator in many online services, such as information retrieval and recommendation. Indices constructed by the state-of-the-art ANNS algorithms must be…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Kun Yu , Jiabao Jin , Xiaoyao Zhong , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen , Zhitao Shen , Jingkuan Song , Hengtao Shen , Xuemin Lin