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We present the first sublinear memory sketch that can be queried to find the nearest neighbors in a dataset. Our online sketching algorithm compresses an N element dataset to a sketch of size $O(N^b \log^3 N)$ in $O(N^{(b+1)} \log^3 N)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Benjamin Coleman , Richard G. Baraniuk , Anshumali Shrivastava

Most natural language processing tasks can be formulated as the approximated nearest neighbor search problem, such as word analogy, document similarity, machine translation. Take the question-answering task as an example, given a question…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Jing Wang

We present a new algorithm for the approximate near neighbor problem that combines classical ideas from group testing with locality-sensitive hashing (LSH). We reduce the near neighbor search problem to a group testing problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Joshua Engels , Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) assumes that neighbor points lie in the same category (neighbor assumption), and points in different clusters belong to various categories (cluster assumption). Existing methods usually rely on similarity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-08 Shuyang Liu , Ruiqiu Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Xing Sun , Zhou Yu , Shaohui Lin

Similarity search (nearest neighbor search) is a problem of pursuing the data items whose distances to a query item are the smallest from a large database. Various methods have been developed to address this problem, and recently a lot of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Jingdong Wang , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song , Jianqiu Ji

The $c$-approximate Near Neighbor problem in high dimensional spaces has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which offers polynomial dependence on the dimension, query time sublinear in the size of the dataset, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Georgia Avarikioti , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros , Georgios Samaras

Approximate Nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is fundamental and essential operation in applications from many domains, such as databases, machine learning, multimedia, and computer vision. Although many algorithms have been continuously…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Wen Li , Ying Zhang , Yifang Sun , Wei Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

In a Public Safety (PS) situation, agents may require critical and personally identifiable information. Therefore, not only does context and location-aware information need to be available, but also the privacy of such information should be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hamidreza Ghafghazi , Amr ElMougy , Hussein T. Mouftah , Carlisle Adams

LLM-powered search services have driven data integration as a significant trend. However, this trend's progress is fundamentally hindered, despite the fact that combining individual knowledge can significantly improve the relevance and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ruoyang Rykie Guo

The problem of nearest-neighbor (NN) condensation aims to reduce the size of a training set of a nearest-neighbor classifier while maintaining its classification accuracy. Although many condensation techniques have been proposed, few bounds…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Alejandro Flores-Velazco , David Mount

Nearest Neighbor(s) search is the fundamental computational primitive to tackle massive dataset. Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) has been a bracing tool for Nearest Neighbor(s) search in high dimensional spaces. However, traditional LSH…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Nan Zhu , Wenbo He , Xue Liu , Yu Hua

Traditional Neighbor Discovery (ND) and Secure Neighbor Discovery (SND) are key elements for network functionality. SND is a hard problem, satisfying not only typical security properties (authentication, integrity) but also verification of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Ahmed Mohamed Hussain , Panos Papadimitratos

Machine learning promotes the continuous development of signal processing in various fields, including network traffic monitoring, EEG classification, face identification, and many more. However, massive user data collected for training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Fuyi Wang , Leo Yu Zhang , Lei Pan , Shengshan Hu , Robin Doss

Approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search is an essential component of search engines, recommendation systems, etc. Many recent works focus on learning-based data-distribution-dependent hashing and achieve good retrieval performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Kim Yong Tan , Yueming Lyu , Yew Soon Ong , Ivor W. Tsang

We study the problem of approximating Hamming distance in sublinear time under property-preserving hashing (PPH), where only hashed representations of inputs are available. Building on the threshold evaluation framework of Fleischhacker,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Dongfang Zhao

Similarity search is the task of retrieving data items that are similar to a given query. In this paper, we introduce the time-sensitive notion of similarity search over endless data-streams (SSDS), which takes into account data quality and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Naama Kraus , David Carmel , Idit Keidar

A Locality-Sensitive Hash (LSH) function is called $(r,cr,p_1,p_2)$-sensitive, if two data-points with a distance less than $r$ collide with probability at least $p_1$ while data points with a distance greater than $cr$ collide with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

This work introduces the \emph{Secure and Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (SPSSR)} problem. In SPSSR, a user wishes to retrieve one subset from an arbitrary family of size-$D$ subsets from $K$ messages replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

The explosive growth in big data has attracted much attention in designing efficient indexing and search methods recently. In many critical applications such as large-scale search and pattern matching, finding the nearest neighbors to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Jun Wang , Wei Liu , Sanjiv Kumar , Shih-Fu Chang

We study the $r$-near neighbors reporting problem ($r$-NN), i.e., reporting \emph{all} points in a high-dimensional point set $S$ that lie within a radius $r$ of a given query point $q$. Our approach builds upon on the locality-sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Ninh Pham