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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

Fixed-radius near neighbor search is a fundamental data operation that retrieves all data points within a user-specified distance to a query point. There are efficient algorithms that can provide fast approximate query responses, but they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xinye Chen , Stefan Güttel

Nearest neighbor (NN) graph based visual re-ranking has emerged as a powerful approach for improving retrieval accuracy, offering the advantages of effectively exploring high-dimensional manifolds without requiring additional fine-tuning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jaeyoon Kim , Yoonki Cho , Taeyoung Kim , Sung-Eui Yoon

$k$ Nearest Neighbors ($k$NN) is one of the most widely used supervised learning algorithms to classify Gaussian distributed data, but it does not achieve good results when it is applied to nonlinear manifold distributed data, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Enmei Tu , Yaqian Zhang , Lin Zhu , Jie Yang , Nikola Kasabov

Similarity search is a fundamental building block for information retrieval on a variety of datasets. The notion of a neighbor is often based on binary considerations, such as the k nearest neighbors. However, considering that data is often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Cole Foster , Berk Sevilmis , Benjamin Kimia

The $k$-NN graph has played a central role in increasingly popular data-driven techniques for various learning and vision tasks; yet, finding an efficient and effective way to construct $k$-NN graphs remains a challenge, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Jingdong Wang , Jing Wang , Gang Zeng , Zhuowen Tu , Rui Gan , Shipeng Li

Proximity graphs (PG) have gained increasing popularity as the state-of-the-art solutions to $k$-approximate nearest neighbor ($k$-ANN) search on high-dimensional data, which serves as a fundamental function in various fields, e.g.,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuo Yang , Jiadong Xie , Yingfan Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Xiyue Gao , Qianru Wang , Yanguo Peng , Jiangtao Cui

Graph-based approaches are empirically shown to be very successful for the nearest neighbor search (NNS). However, there has been very little research on their theoretical guarantees. We fill this gap and rigorously analyze the performance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Aleksandr Shekhovtsov

Similarity graphs are an active research direction for the nearest neighbor search (NNS) problem. New algorithms for similarity graph construction are continuously being proposed and analyzed by both theoreticians and practitioners.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Dmitry Baranchuk , Artem Babenko

Nearest neighbor is a popular class of classification methods with many desirable properties. For a large data set which cannot be loaded into the memory of a single machine due to computation, communication, privacy, or ownership…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-01 Xingye Qiao , Jiexin Duan , Guang Cheng

Customizable contraction hierarchies are one of the most popular route planning frameworks in practice, due to their simplicity and versatility. In this work, we present a novel algorithm for finding k-nearest neighbors in customizable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Valentin Buchhold , Dorothea Wagner

Nearest neighbor search is a fundamental data structure problem with many applications in machine learning, computer vision, recommendation systems and other fields. Although the main objective of the data structure is to quickly report…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Piyush Anand , Piotr Indyk , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Sepideh Mahabadi , Vikas C. Raykar , Kirankumar Shiragur , Haike Xu

Nearest neighbor (NN) problem is an important scientific problem. The NN query, to find the closest one to a given query point among a set of points, is widely used in applications such as density estimation, pattern classification,…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yang Li , Gang Liu , Junbin Gao , Zhenwen He , Mingyuan Bai , Chengjun Li

Graph search is one of the most successful algorithmic trends in near neighbor search. Several of the most popular and empirically successful algorithms are, at their core, a simple walk along a pruned near neighbor graph. Such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Benjamin Coleman , Santiago Segarra , Anshumali Shrivastava , Alex Smola

K-nearest neighbor search is one of the fundamental tasks in various applications and the hierarchical navigable small world (HNSW) has recently drawn attention in large-scale cloud services, as it easily scales up the database while…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeo-Reum Park , Jaeyoung Do , Soo-Young Ji , Joo-Young Kim

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANN) is a common way to retrieve relevant search results, especially now in the context of large language models and retrieval augmented generation. One of the most widely used algorithms for ANN is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nina Mishra , Yonatan Naamad , Tal Wagner , Lichen Zhang

Nearest neighbor (kNN) methods have been gaining popularity in recent years in light of advances in hardware and efficiency of algorithms. There is a plethora of methods to choose from today, each with their own advantages and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Daniel Zoran , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Charles Blundell

Nearest neighbor search (NNS) has a wide range of applications in information retrieval, computer vision, machine learning, databases, and other areas. Existing state-of-the-art algorithm for nearest neighbor search, Hierarchical Navigable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ishita Doshi , Dhritiman Das , Ashish Bhutani , Rajeev Kumar , Rushi Bhatt , Niranjan Balasubramanian

K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) joins are used in scientific domains for data analysis, and are building blocks of several well-known algorithms. KNN-joins find the KNN of all points in a dataset. This paper focuses on a hybrid CPU/GPU approach…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Michael Gowanlock

The $k$-nearest neighbor graph (KNNG) on high-dimensional data is a data structure widely used in many applications such as similarity search, dimension reduction and clustering. Due to its increasing popularity, several methods under the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Liu Yingfan , Cheng Hong , Cui Jiangtao