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We explore the applicability of quantum annealing to the approximation task of curve fitting. To this end, we consider a function that shall approximate a given set of data points and is written as a finite linear combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Philipp Isserstedt , Daniel Jaroszewski , Wolfgang Mergenthaler , Felix Paul , Bastian Harrach

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) query in high-dimensional Euclidean space is a key operator in database systems. For this query, quantization is a popular family of methods developed for compressing vectors and reducing memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jianyang Gao , Yutong Gou , Yuexuan Xu , Yongyi Yang , Cheng Long , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Approximate K nearest neighbor (AKNN) search is a fundamental and challenging problem. We observe that in high-dimensional space, the time consumption of nearly all AKNN algorithms is dominated by that of the distance comparison operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jianyang Gao , Cheng Long

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) constitutes an important operation in a multitude of applications, including recommendation systems, information retrieval, and pattern recognition. In the past decade, graph-based ANNS algorithms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mengzhao Wang , Xiaoliang Xu , Qiang Yue , Yuxiang Wang

Spectral clustering became a popular choice for data clustering for its ability of uncovering clusters of different shapes. However, it is not always preferable over other clustering methods due to its computational demands. One of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mashaan Alshammari , John Stavrakakis , Masahiro Takatsuka

We consider a general model for representing and manipulating parametric curves, in which a curve is specified by a black box mapping a parameter value between 0 and 1 to a point in Euclidean d-space. In this model, we consider the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ilya Baran , Erik D. Demaine

Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search and Approximate Kernel Density Estimation (A-KDE) are fundamental problems at the core of modern machine learning, with broad applications in data analysis, information systems, and large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ved Danait , Srijan Das , Sujoy Bhore

A recent series of papers by Andoni, Naor, Nikolov, Razenshteyn, and Waingarten (STOC 2018, FOCS 2018) has given approximate near neighbour search (NNS) data structures for a wide class of distance metrics, including all norms. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Deepanshu Kush , Aleksandar Nikolov , Haohua Tang

Constrained shortest distance (CSD) querying is one of the fundamental graph query primitives, which finds the shortest distance from an origin to a destination in a graph with a constraint that the total cost does not exceed a given…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Meng Shen , Baoli Ma , Liehuang Zhu , Rashid Mijumbi , Xiaojiang Du , Jiankun Hu

The $c$-approximate Near Neighbor problem in high dimensional spaces has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which offers polynomial dependence on the dimension, query time sublinear in the size of the dataset, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Georgia Avarikioti , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros , Georgios Samaras

We study the problem of approximate near neighbor (ANN) search and show the following results: - An improved framework for solving the ANN problem using locality-sensitive hashing, reducing the number of evaluations of locality-sensitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Tobias Christiani

In this paper we revisit the kernel density estimation problem: given a kernel $K(x, y)$ and a dataset of $n$ points in high dimensional Euclidean space, prepare a data structure that can quickly output, given a query $q$, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Moses Charikar , Michael Kapralov , Navid Nouri , Paris Siminelakis

We study the Approximate Nearest Neighbor problem for metric spaces where the query points are constrained to lie on a subspace of low doubling dimension, while the data is high-dimensional. We show that this problem can be solved…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Sariel Har-Peled , Nirman Kumar

We study the Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) problem under a powerful adaptive adversary that controls both the dataset and a sequence of $Q$ queries. Primarily, for the high-dimensional regime of $d = \omega(\sqrt{Q})$, we introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Alexandr Andoni , Themistoklis Haris , Esty Kelman , Krzysztof Onak

Cross-encoder models, which jointly encode and score a query-item pair, are prohibitively expensive for direct k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search. Consequently, k-NN search typically employs a fast approximate retrieval (e.g. using BM25 or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Nishant Yadav , Nicholas Monath , Manzil Zaheer , Andrew McCallum

We propose sublinear algorithms for probabilistic testing of the discrete and continuous Fr\'echet distance - a standard similarity measure for curves. We assume the algorithm is given access to the input curves via a query oracle: a query…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Peyman Afshani , Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Marena Richter , Sampson Wong

The similarity of two polygonal curves can be measured using the Fr\'echet distance. We introduce the notion of a more robust Fr\'echet distance, where one is allowed to shortcut between vertices of one of the curves. This is a natural…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Anne Driemel , Sariel Har-Peled

Efficient Nearest Neighbor (NN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a foundation of many multimedia retrieval systems. A common approach is to rely on Product Quantization, which allows the storage of large vector databases in memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Fabien André , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Nowadays, face recognition and more generally image recognition have many applications in the modern world and are widely used in our daily tasks. This paper aims to propose a distributed approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Aysan Aghazadeh , Maryam Amirmazlaghani

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) on high-dimensional vectors has become a fundamental and essential component in various machine learning tasks. Recently, with the rapid development of deep learning models and the applications of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zeyu Wang , Haoran Xiong , Qitong Wang , Zhenying He , Peng Wang , Themis Palpanas , Wei Wang