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In this paper we show how the complexity of performing nearest neighbor (NNS) search on a metric space is related to the expansion of the metric space. Given a metric space we look at the graph obtained by connecting every pair of points…
Traditionally, an artificial neural network (ANN) is trained slowly by a gradient descent algorithm such as the backpropagation algorithm since a large number of hyperparameters of the ANN need to be fine-tuned with many training epochs. To…
We formulate and optimally solve a new generalized Set Similarity Search problem, which assumes the size of the database and query sets are known in advance. By creating polylog copies of our data-structure, we optimally solve any symmetric…
We suggest a novel classification algorithm that is based on local approximations and explain its connections with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Nearest Neighbour classifiers. We illustrate it on the datasets MNIST and EMNIST of…
We present a novel search optimization solution for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search on resource-constrained edge devices. Traditional ANN approaches fall short in meeting the specific demands of real-world scenarios, e.g., skewed…
Networks are ubiquitous in the real world. Link prediction, as one of the key problems for network-structured data, aims to predict whether there exists a link between two nodes. The traditional approaches are based on the explicit…
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…
With the continuous popularity of deep learning and representation learning, fast vector search becomes a vital task in various ranking/retrieval based applications, say recommendation, ads ranking and question answering. Neural network…
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…
$K$-NN classifier is one of the most famous classification algorithms, whose performance is crucially dependent on the distance metric. When we consider the distance metric as a parameter of $K$-NN, learning an appropriate distance metric…
In this article we propose a new deep learning approach to approximate operators related to parametric partial differential equations (PDEs). In particular, we introduce a new strategy to design specific artificial neural network (ANN)…
Retrieving the most similar objects in a large-scale database for a given query is a fundamental building block in many application domains, ranging from web searches, visual, cross media, and document retrievals. State-of-the-art…
Our context of interest is how binary locality sensitive hash (LSH) functions can be used to solve the approximate near neighbour (ANN) problem, which seeks to find the k closest elements of some dataset X to some further point q presented…
The Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) problem asks to design a data structure that preprocesses an $n$-point dataset $X$ lying in a metric space $\mathcal{M}$, so that given a query point $q \in \mathcal{M}$, one can quickly return a point of…
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,…
There is growing interest in representing image data and feature descriptors using compact binary codes for fast near neighbor search. Although binary codes are motivated by their use as direct indices (addresses) into a hash table, codes…
We present a new approach for efficient approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensional spaces, extending the idea of Product Quantization. We propose a two-level product and vector quantization tree that reduces the number of…
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS), as the core of vector databases (VectorDBs), has become widely used in modern AI and ML systems, powering applications from information retrieval to bio-informatics. While graph-based ANNS methods…
Approximate subgraph matching (ASM) is a task that determines the approximate presence of a given query graph in a large target graph. Being an NP-hard problem, ASM is critical in graph analysis with a myriad of applications ranging from…
While the problem of approximate nearest neighbor search has been well-studied for Euclidean space and $\ell_1$, few non-trivial algorithms are known for $\ell_p$ when ($2 < p < \infty$). In this paper, we revisit this fundamental problem…