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Code clones can detrimentally impact software maintenance and manually detecting them in very large codebases is impractical. Additionally, automated approaches find detection of Type 3 and Type 4 (inexact) clones very challenging. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Muslim Chochlov , Gul Aftab Ahmed , James Vincent Patten , Guoxian Lu , Wei Hou , David Gregg , Jim Buckley

Aptamer researchers face a literature landscape scattered across publications, supplements, and databases, with each search consuming hours that could be spent at the bench. AptaFind transforms this navigation problem through a three-tier…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Geoffrey Taghon

The chemical sciences are producing an unprecedented amount of large, high-dimensional data sets containing chemical structures and associated properties. However, there are currently no algorithms to visualize such data while preserving…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Daniel Probst , Jean-Louis Reymond

Nowadays, data is represented by vectors. Retrieving those vectors, among millions and billions, that are similar to a given query is a ubiquitous problem, known as similarity search, of relevance for a wide range of applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Cecilia Aguerrebere , Ishwar Bhati , Mark Hildebrand , Mariano Tepper , Ted Willke

The problem of {\em efficiently} finding the best match for a query in a given set with respect to the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity has been extensively studied in literature. However, a closely related problem of efficiently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Parikshit Ram , Alexander G. Gray

Similarity search is a key to a variety of applications including content-based search for images and video, recommendation systems, data deduplication, natural language processing, computer vision, databases, computational biology, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Vincent T. Lee , Amrita Mazumdar , Carlo C. del Mundo , Armin Alaghi , Luis Ceze , Mark Oskin

The main approach of traditional information retrieval (IR) is to examine how many words from a query appear in a document. A drawback of this approach, however, is that it may fail to detect relevant documents where no or only few words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sun Kim , Nicolas Fiorini , W. John Wilbur , Zhiyong Lu

This paper demonstrates the utility of organized numerical representations of genes in research involving flat string gene formats (i.e., FASTA/FASTQ5). FASTA/FASTQ files have several current limitations, such as their large file sizes,…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-11 Daniel H. Um , David A. Knowles , Gail E. Kaiser

Data series similarity search is an important operation and at the core of several analysis tasks and applications related to data series collections. Despite the fact that data series indexes enable fast similarity search, all existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Michele Linardi , Themis Palpanas

In this paper, a new and novel data structure is proposed to dynamically insert and delete segments. Unlike the standard segment trees[3], the proposed data structure permits insertion of a segment with interval range beyond the interval…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-01-15 K. S. Easwarakumar , T. Hema

Causation discovery without manipulation is considered a crucial problem to a variety of applications. The state-of-the-art solutions are applicable only when large numbers of samples are available or the problem domain is sufficiently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Ruichu Cai , Zhenjie Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

Vector data is prevalent across business and scientific applications, and its popularity is growing with the proliferation of learned embeddings. Vector data collections often reach billions of vectors with thousands of dimensions, thus,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ilias Azizi , Karima Echihab , Themis Palpanas , Vassilis Christophides

DNA-encoded small molecule libraries (DELs) have enabled discovery of novel inhibitors for many distinct protein targets of therapeutic value through screening of libraries with up to billions of unique small molecules. We demonstrate a new…

Progress in natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDB) has been slow mainly due to linguistic issues (such as language ambiguity) and domain portability. Moreover, the lack of a large corpus to be used as a standard benchmark has made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Florin Brad , Radu Iacob , Ionel Hosu , Traian Rebedea

The Binary Search Tree (BST) is average in computer science which supports a compact data structure in memory and oneself even conducts a row of quick algorithms, by which people often apply it in dynamical circumstance. Besides these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Yong Tan

As the structural databases continue to expand, efficient methods are required to search similar structures of the query structure from the database. There are many previous works about comparing protein 3D structures and scanning the…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Gook-Pil Roh , Seung-won Hwang , Byoung-Kee Yi

A set of molecular descriptors whose length is independent of molecular size is developed for machine learning models that target thermodynamic and electronic properties of molecules. These features are evaluated by monitoring performance…

Component-based synthesis (CBS) aims to generate loop-free programs from a set of libraries whose methods are annotated with specifications and whose output must satisfy a set of logical constraints, expressed as a query. The effectiveness…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ashish Mishra , Suresh Jagannathan

Similarity query is the family of queries based on some similarity metrics. Unlike the traditional database queries which are mostly based on value equality, similarity queries aim to find targets "similar enough to" the given data objects,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifan Wang

Test-time scaling improves large language models (LLMs) on long-horizon reasoning tasks by allocating more compute at inference. LLM inference via tree search (LITS) achieves strong performance but is highly inefficient. We propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xinzhe Li