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The nearest neighbor problem is defined as follows: Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in some metric space $(X,D)$, build a data structure that, given any point $q$, returns a point in $P$ that is closest to $q$ (its "nearest neighbor" in $P$).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Alexandr Andoni , Piotr Indyk , Ilya Razenshteyn

The nearest neighbor (NN) technique is very simple, highly efficient and effective in the field of pattern recognition, text categorization, object recognition etc. Its simplicity is its main advantage, but the disadvantages can't be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-02 Nitin Bhatia , Vandana

The recent improvements of graphics processing units (GPU) offer to the computer vision community a powerful processing platform. Indeed, a lot of highly-parallelizable computer vision problems can be significantly accelerated using GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-04-10 Vincent Garcia , Eric Debreuve , Michel Barlaud

Community is a universal structure in various complex networks, and community detection is a fundamental task for network analysis. With the rapid growth of network scale, networks are massive, changing rapidly and could naturally be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yanhao Yang , Meng Wang , David Bindel , Kun He

Graph Neural Networks have shown excellent performance on semi-supervised classification tasks. However, they assume access to a graph that may not be often available in practice. In the absence of any graph, constructing k-Nearest Neighbor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Vijay Lingam , Arun Iyer , Rahul Ragesh

Learning graph-structured data with graph neural networks (GNNs) has been recently emerging as an important field because of its wide applicability in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, social network analysis and data mining. Recent GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Cheolhyeong Kim , Haeseong Moon , Hyung Ju Hwang

Consider a weighted or unweighted k-nearest neighbor graph that has been built on n data points drawn randomly according to some density p on R^d. We study the convergence of the shortest path distance in such graphs as the sample size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Morteza Alamgir , Ulrike von Luxburg

Range-filtered approximate nearest neighbor (RFANN) search is a fundamental operation in modern data systems. Given a set of objects, each with a vector and a numerical attribute, an RFANN query retrieves the nearest neighbors to a query…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiqiu Zou , Ziqi Yin , Rong-Hua Li , Hongchao Qin , Qiangqiang Dai , Guoren Wang

Graph similarity search is among the most important graph-based applications, e.g. finding the chemical compounds that are most similar to a query compound. Graph similarity computation, such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) and Maximum Common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Song Bian , Ting Chen , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

The $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) algorithm is one of the most popular methods for nonparametric classification. However, a relevant limitation concerns the definition of the number of neighbors $k$. This parameter exerts a direct impact on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Alexandre Luís Magalhães Levada , Frank Nielsen , Michel Ferreira Cardia Haddad

In the era of big data, k-means clustering has been widely adopted as a basic processing tool in various contexts. However, its computational cost could be prohibitively high as the data size and the cluster number are large. It is well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Cheng-Hao Deng , Wan-Lei Zhao

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

Given a collection of points in R^3, KD-Tree and R-Tree are well-known nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithms that rely on space partitioning and spatial indexing techniques. However, when the query point is far from the data points or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Pengfei Wang , Jiantao Song , Shiqing Xin , Shuangmin Chen , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang , Jiaye Wang

In this paper, we propose a new data structure for approximate nearest neighbor search. This structure augments the neighborhood graph with a bridge graph. We propose to exploit Cartesian concatenation to produce a large set of vectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Jingdong Wang , Jing Wang , Gang Zeng , Rui Gan , Shipeng Li , Baining Guo

Nearest neighbor search is a basic computational tool used extensively in almost research domains of computer science specially when dealing with large amount of data. However, the use of nearest neighbor search is restricted for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Suman Saha , S. P. Ghrera

$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$Recent work showed how to construct nearest-neighbor graphs of linear size, on a given set $P$ of $n$ points in $\Re^d$, such that one can answer approximate nearest-neighbor queries in logarithmic time in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jeff Giliberti , Sariel Har-Peled , Jonas Sauer , Ali Vakilian

k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search is a fundamental primitive in geometry processing and computer graphics. While spatial partitioning structures such as kd-trees are standard, they are often manifold-blind, failing to exploit the intrinsic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Wang , Qinghao Guo , Haisen Zhao , Shiqing Xin , Shuangmin Chen , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) search is a fundamental algorithm in artificial intelligence software with applications in robotics, and autonomous vehicles. These wide-ranging applications utilize KNN either directly for simple classification or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Aryan Naim , Joseph Bowkett , Sisir Karumanchi , Peyman Tavallali , Brett Kennedy

Nearest neighbor (k-NN) graphs are widely used in machine learning and data mining applications, and our aim is to better understand what they reveal about the cluster structure of the unknown underlying distribution of points. Moreover, is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-05-06 Samory Kpotufe , Ulrike von Luxburg

Subgraph queries also known as subgraph isomorphism search is a fundamental problem in querying graph-like structured data. It consists to enumerate the subgraphs of a data graph that match a query graph. This problem arises in many…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-11 C. Nabti , T. Mecharnia , S. E. Boukhetta , H. Seba , K. Amrouche