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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

Cluster analysis which focuses on the grouping and categorization of similar elements is widely used in various fields of research. Inspired by the phenomenon of atomic fission, a novel density-based clustering algorithm is proposed in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Shizhan Lu

Clustering-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) organizes a set of points into partitions, and searches only a few of them to find the nearest neighbors of a query. Despite its popularity, there are virtually no analytical tools…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Thomas Vecchiato , Sebastian Bruch

Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-27 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

In the Euclidean TSP with neighborhoods (TSPN), we are given a collection of n regions (neighborhoods) and we seek a shortest tour that visits each region. As a generalization of the classical Euclidean TSP, TSPN is also NP-hard. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Adrian Dumitrescu , Joseph S. B. Mitchell

For approximate nearest neighbor search, graph-based algorithms have shown to offer the best trade-off between accuracy and search time. We propose the Dynamic Exploration Graph (DEG) which significantly outperforms existing algorithms in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Nico Hezel , Kai Uwe Barthel , Konstantin Schall , Klaus Jung

This paper presents a graph bundling algorithm that agglomerates edges taking into account both spatial proximity as well as user-defined criteria in order to reveal patterns that were not perceivable with previous bundling techniques. Each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Daniel C. Moura

While informal settlements lack focused development and are highly dynamic, the quality of spatial data for these places may be uncertain. This study evaluates the quality and biases of AI-generated Open Building Datasets (OBDs) generated…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Franz Okyere , Meng Lu , Ansgar Brunn

Approximate K Nearest Neighbor (AKNN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a critical yet challenging problem. In AKNN search, distance computation is the core task that dominates the runtime. Existing approaches typically use approximate…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mingyu Yang , Wentao Li , Jiabao Jin , Xiaoyao Zhong , Xiangyu Wang , Zhitao Shen , Wei Jia , Wei Wang

Boundary point detection aims to outline the external contour structure of clusters and enhance the inter-cluster discrimination, thus bolstering the performance of the downstream classification and clustering tasks. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Dehua Peng , Zhipeng Gui , Jie Gui , Huayi Wu

The problem of identifying geometric structure in heterogeneous, high-dimensional data is a cornerstone of representation learning. While there exists a large body of literature on the embeddability of canonical graphs, such as lattices or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Melanie Weber

Gadget3 is nowadays one of the most frequently used high performing parallel codes for cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Recent analyses have shown t\ hat the Neighbour Search process of Gadget3 is one of the most time-consuming…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Antonio Ragagnin , Nikola Tchipev , Michael Bader , Klaus Dolag , Nicolay J. Hammer

In recent years it has become popular to study machine learning problems in a setting of ordinal distance information rather than numerical distance measurements. By ordinal distance information we refer to binary answers to distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-25 Matthäus Kleindessner , Ulrike von Luxburg

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

Approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search has become a central task in modern data-intensive applications, particularly when operating on large, heterogeneous, or high-dimensional datasets. However, many existing ANN methods struggle in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Elena Garcia-Morato , Maria Jesus Algar , Cesar Alfaro , Felipe Ortega , Javier Gomez , Javier M. Moguerza

Binary code similarity detection is an important problem with applications in areas such as malware analysis, vulnerability research and license violation detection. This paper proposes a novel graph neural network architecture combined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Joshua Collyer , Tim Watson , Iain Phillips

When we have two data sets and want to find the nearest neighbour of each point in the first dataset among points in the second one, we need the all nearest neighbour operator. This is an operator in spatial databases that has many…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Nasrin Mazaheri Soudani , Ali Karami

DBSCAN is a typically used clustering algorithm due to its clustering ability for arbitrarily-shaped clusters and its robustness to outliers. Generally, the complexity of DBSCAN is O(n^2) in the worst case, and it practically becomes more…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Thapana Boonchoo , Xiang Ao , Qing He

Several researchers proposed using non-Euclidean metrics on point sets in Euclidean space for clustering noisy data. Almost always, a distance function is desired that recognizes the closeness of the points in the same cluster, even if the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Michael B. Cohen , Brittany Terese Fasy , Gary L. Miller , Amir Nayyeri , Donald R. Sheehy , Ameya Velingker

Most density-based clustering methods largely rely on how well the underlying density is estimated. However, density estimation itself is also a challenging problem, especially the determination of the kernel bandwidth. A large bandwidth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-08 Teng Qiu , Yongjie Li