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A privacy policy is a document that states how a company intends to handle and manage their customers' personal data. One of the problems that arises with these privacy policies is that their content might violate data privacy regulations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Amin Rabinia , Zane Nygaard

We introduce a new variant of the nearest neighbor search problem, which allows for some coordinates of the dataset to be arbitrarily corrupted or unknown. Formally, given a dataset of $n$ points $P=\{ x_1,\ldots, x_n\}$ in high-dimensions,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Sariel Har-Peled , Sepideh Mahabadi

For a given dataset $\mathcal{D}$ and structured label $f$, the goal of Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (FANNS) algorithms is to find top-$k$ points closest to a query that satisfy label constraints, while ensuring both recall…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jiayang Shi , Yuzheng Cai , Weiguo Zheng

User preference queries are very important in spatial databases. With the help of these queries, one can found best location among points saved in database. In many situation users evaluate quality of a location with its distance from its…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Nasrin Mazaheri Soudani , Ahmad Baraani-Dastgerdi

This paper reconsiders common benchmarking approaches to nearest neighbor search. It is shown that the concept of local intrinsic dimensionality (LID) allows to choose query sets of a wide range of difficulty for real-world datasets.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Martin Aumüller , Matteo Ceccarello

In location-based services(LBSs), it is promising for users to crowdsource and share their Point-of-Interest(PoI) information with each other in a common cache to reduce query frequency and preserve location privacy. Yet most studies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shu Hong , Lingjie Duan

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces is a pivotal challenge in the field of machine learning. In recent years, graph-based methods have emerged as the superior approach to ANNS, establishing a new state of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Kejing Lu , Chuan Xiao , Yoshiharu Ishikawa

Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services (LBSs). Although particularly useful, such queries raise serious privacy concerns. Exposing to a (potentially untrusted) LBS the client's position and…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-04-30 Kyriakos Mouratidis , Man Lung Yiu

We propose a Neighbourhood-Aware Differential Privacy (NADP) mechanism considering the neighbourhood of a word in a pretrained static word embedding space to determine the minimal amount of noise required to guarantee a specified privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Danushka Bollegala , Shuichi Otake , Tomoya Machide , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

We present SPARSI, a theoretical framework for partitioning sensitive data across multiple non-colluding adversaries. Most work in privacy-aware data sharing has considered disclosing summaries where the aggregate information about the data…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Theodoros Rekatsinas , Amol Deshpande , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven significant progress in Natural Language Interface to Database (NLIDB). However, the widespread adoption of LLMs has raised critical privacy and security concerns. During…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ruiheng Liu , XiaoBing Chen , Jinyu Zhang , Qiongwen Zhang , Yu Zhang , Bailong Yang

Nearest neighbor (NN) queries in trajectory databases have received significant attention in the past, due to their application in spatio-temporal data analysis. Recent work has considered the realistic case where the trajectories are…

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in natural language understanding by capturing hidden semantics in vector space. This process enriches the value of text embeddings for various downstream tasks, thereby fostering the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Peihua Mai , Ran Yan , Zhe Huang , Youjia Yang , Yan Pang

Text-attributed graphs (TAGs) present unique challenges for direct processing by Language Learning Models (LLMs), yet their extensive commonsense knowledge and robust reasoning capabilities offer great promise for node classification in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rui Li , Jiwei Li , Jiawei Han , Guoyin Wang

Nearest-neighbor search, which returns the nearest neighbor of a query point in a set of points, is an important and widely studied problem in many fields, and it has wide range of applications. In many of them, such as sensor databases,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Boris Aronov , Sariel Har-Peled , Jeff M. Philips , Ke Yi , Wuzhou Zhang

Hashing method maps similar high-dimensional data to binary hashcodes with smaller hamming distance, and it has received broad attention due to its low storage cost and fast retrieval speed. Pairwise similarity is easily obtained and widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Shifeng Zhang , Jianmin Li , Bo Zhang

Chan, Har-Peled, and Jones [SICOMP 2020] developed locality-sensitive orderings (LSO) for Euclidean space. A $(\tau,\rho)$-LSO is a collection $\Sigma$ of orderings such that for every $x,y\in\mathbb{R}^d$ there is an ordering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Arnold Filtser

The proliferation of location-based services and applications has brought significant attention to data and location privacy. While general secure computation and privacy-enhancing techniques can partially address this problem, one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ruoyang Guo , Jiarui Li , Shucheng Yu

Traditional route planning and k nearest neighbors queries only consider distance or travel time and ignore road safety altogether. However, many travellers prefer to avoid risky or unpleasant road conditions such as roads with high crime…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Punam Biswas , Tanzima Hashem , Muhammad Aamir Cheema

Characterizing large online social networks (OSNs) through node querying is a challenging task. OSNs often impose severe constraints on the query rate, hence limiting the sample size to a small fraction of the total network. Various ad-hoc…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Pinghui Wang , Bruno Ribeiro , Junzhou Zhao , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Xiaohong Guan