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The approximate nearest neighbor problem ($\epsilon$-ANN) in high dimensional Euclidean space has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which has polynomial dependence in the dimension, sublinear query time, but…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Evangelos Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros

We present a new locality sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm for $c$-approximate nearest neighbor search in $\ell_p$ with $1<p<2$. For a database of $n$ points in $\ell_p$, we achieve $O(dn^{\rho})$ query time and $O(dn+n^{1+\rho})$ space,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Huy L. Nguyen

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental technique for similarity search and similarity estimation in high-dimensional spaces. The basic idea is that similar objects should produce hash collisions with probability significantly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Joachim Gudmundsson , Rasmus Pagh

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental problem in many areas of machine learning and data mining. During the past decade, numerous hashing algorithms are proposed to solve this problem. Every proposed algorithm claims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Deng Cai

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

Near neighbor problems are fundamental in algorithms for high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. While classical approaches suffer from the curse of dimensionality, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) can effectively solve a-approximate r-near…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang

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

Locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental algorithmic toolkit used by data scientists for approximate nearest neighbour search problems that have been used extensively in many large scale data processing applications such as near…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Bhisham Dev Verma , Rameshwar Pratap

We show that approximate similarity (near neighbour) search can be solved in high dimensions with performance matching state of the art (data independent) Locality Sensitive Hashing, but with a guarantee of no false negatives. Specifically,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

Distributed frameworks are gaining increasingly widespread use in applications that process large amounts of data. One important example application is large scale similarity search, for which Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) has emerged as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Bahman Bahmani , Ashish Goel , Rajendra Shinde

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

Locality-sensitive hashing~[Indyk,Motwani'98] is a classical data structure for approximate nearest neighbor search. It allows, after a close to linear time preprocessing of the input dataset, to find an approximately nearest neighbor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Christian Sohler

We show an optimal data-dependent hashing scheme for the approximate near neighbor problem. For an $n$-point data set in a $d$-dimensional space our data structure achieves query time $O(d n^{\rho+o(1)})$ and space $O(n^{1+\rho+o(1)} +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Alexandr Andoni , Ilya Razenshteyn

We prove a tight lower bound for the exponent $\rho$ for data-dependent Locality-Sensitive Hashing schemes, recently used to design efficient solutions for the $c$-approximate nearest neighbor search. In particular, our lower bound matches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Alexandr Andoni , Ilya Razenshteyn

For a metric space $(X, d)$, a family $\mathcal{H}$ of locality sensitive hash functions is called $(r, cr, p_1, p_2)$ sensitive if a randomly chosen function $h\in \mathcal{H}$ has probability at least $p_1$ (at most $p_2$) to map any $a,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Kevin Lu , Feng Luo , Cheng Xin

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

We present a framework for similarity search based on Locality-Sensitive Filtering (LSF), generalizing the Indyk-Motwani (STOC 1998) Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) framework to support space-time tradeoffs. Given a family of filters,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Tobias Christiani

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

We present the first provable Least-Squares Value Iteration (LSVI) algorithms that have runtime complexity sublinear in the number of actions. We formulate the value function estimation procedure in value iteration as an approximate maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Anshumali Shrivastava , Zhao Song , Zhaozhuo Xu

LSH (locality sensitive hashing) had emerged as a powerful technique in nearest-neighbor search in high dimensions [IM98, HIM12]. Given a point set $P$ in a metric space, and given parameters $r$ and $\varepsilon > 0$, the task is to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Sariel Har-Peled , Sepideh Mahabadi