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We present SLASH (Sketched LocAlity Sensitive Hashing), an MPI (Message Passing Interface) based distributed system for approximate similarity search over terabyte scale datasets. SLASH provides a multi-node implementation of the popular…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Nicholas Meisburger , Anshumali Shrivastava

We consider the problem of designing locality sensitive hashes (LSH) for inner product similarity, and of the power of asymmetric hashes in this context. Shrivastava and Li argue that there is no symmetric LSH for the problem and propose an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-09 Behnam Neyshabur , Nathan Srebro

We consider a new construction of locality-sensitive hash functions for Hamming space that is \emph{covering} in the sense that is it guaranteed to produce a collision for every pair of vectors within a given radius $r$. The construction is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Rasmus Pagh

Among many solutions to the high-dimensional approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is known for its sub-linear query time and robust theoretical guarantee on query accuracy. Traditional LSH…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yao Tian , Xi Zhao , Xiaofang Zhou

We present NearBucket-LSH, an effective algorithm for similarity search in large-scale distributed online social networks organized as peer-to-peer overlays. As communication is a dominant consideration in distributed systems, we focus on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Naama Kraus , David Carmel , Idit Keidar , Meni Orenbach

Many large multimedia applications require efficient processing of nearest neighbor queries. Often, multimedia data are represented as a collection of important high-dimensional feature vectors. Existing Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH)…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Omid Jafari , Parth Nagarkar , Jonathan Montaño

Nearest neighbor (NN) search is inherently computationally expensive in high-dimensional spaces due to the curse of dimensionality. As a well-known solution, locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is able to answer c-approximate NN (c-ANN)…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Bolong Zheng , Xi Zhao , Lianggui Weng , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hang Liu , Christian S. Jensen

Hashing is very popular for remote sensing image search. This article proposes a multiview hashing with learnable parameters to retrieve the queried images for a large-scale remote sensing dataset. Existing methods always neglect that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wenyun Li , Guo Zhong , Xingyu Lu , Chi-Man Pun

Space partitions of $\mathbb{R}^d$ underlie a vast and important class of fast nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithms. Inspired by recent theoretical work on NNS for general metric spaces [Andoni, Naor, Nikolov, Razenshteyn, Waingarten…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Yihe Dong , Piotr Indyk , Ilya Razenshteyn , Tal Wagner

Relevance Models are well-known retrieval models and capable of producing competitive results. However, because they use query expansion they can be very slow. We address this slowness by incorporating two variants of locality sensitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Dominik Wurzer , Miles Osborne , Victor Lavrenko

This paper introduces "Multi-Level Spherical LSH": parameter-free, a multi-level, data-dependant Locality Sensitive Hashing data structure for solving the Approximate Near Neighbors Problem (ANN). This data structure uses a modified version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Teresa Nicole Brooks , Rania Almajalid

The Approximate Near Neighbor (ANN) problem is a cornerstone in high-dimensional data analysis, with applications ranging from information retrieval to data mining. Among the most successful paradigms for solving ANN in high-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Luca Becchetti , Andrea Clementi , Luciano Gualà , Emanuele Natale , Luca Pepè Sciarria , Alessandro Straziota

We focus on the problem of identifying samples in a set that do not conform to structured patterns represented by low-dimensional manifolds. An effective way to solve this problem is to embed data in a high dimensional space, called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Filippo Leveni , Luca Magri , Cesare Alippi , Giacomo Boracchi

Large-scale software systems generate vast volumes of system logs that are essential for monitoring, diagnosing, and performance optimization. However, the unstructured nature and ever-growing scale of these logs present significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shu-Wei Huang , Xingfang Wu , Heng Li

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a well-known solution for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional spaces due to its robust theoretical guarantee on query accuracy. Traditional LSH-based methods mainly focus on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jiuqi Wei , Botao Peng , Xiaodong Lee , Themis Palpanas

In this paper, we consider the problem of classification of $M$ high dimensional queries $y^1,\cdots,y^M\in B^S$ to $N$ high dimensional classes $x^1,\cdots,x^N\in A^S$ where $A$ and $B$ are discrete alphabets and the probabilistic model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Arash Gholami Davoodi , Sean Chang , Hyun Gon Yoo , Anubhav Baweja , Mihir Mongia , Hosein Mohimani

As data volumes continue to grow, clustering and outlier detection algorithms are becoming increasingly time-consuming. Classical index structures for neighbor search are no longer sustainable due to the "curse of dimensionality". Instead,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Li Wang

Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is one of the most popular methods for $c$-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search ($c$-ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces. In this paper, we propose a novel LSH scheme based on the Longest Circular Co-Substring…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yifan Lei , Qiang Huang , Mohan Kankanhalli , Anthony K. H. Tung

Hashing methods have been widely used for efficient similarity retrieval on large scale image database. Traditional hashing methods learn hash functions to generate binary codes from hand-crafted features, which achieve limited accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Jian Zhang , Yuxin Peng

Large scale agglomerative clustering is hindered by computational burdens. We propose a novel scheme where exact inter-instance distance calculation is replaced by the Hamming distance between Kernelized Locality-Sensitive Hashing (KLSH)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-17 Boyi Xie , Shuheng Zheng