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Locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is one of the widely-used approaches to approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces. The first work on LSH for the Euclidean distance, E2LSH, showed how ANNS can be solved…

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 NearBucket-LSH, an effective algorithm for similarity search in large-scale distributed online social networks organized as peer-to-peer overlays. As communication is a dominant consideration in distributed systems, we focus on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Naama Kraus , David Carmel , Idit Keidar , Meni Orenbach

Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely-used method for nearest neighbour search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. There has been considerable research on generating efficient image representation via the deep-network-based hashing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Hanjiang Lai , Yan Pan

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

Locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is a powerful tool for sublinear-time approximate nearest neighbor search, and a variety of hashing schemes have been proposed for different dissimilarity measures. However, hash codes significantly depend…

We study the problem of domain search where a domain is a set of distinct values from an unspecified universe. We use Jaccard set containment, defined as $|Q \cap X|/|Q|$, as the relevance measure of a domain $X$ to a query domain $Q$. Our…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Erkang Zhu , Fatemeh Nargesian , Ken Q. Pu , Renée J. Miller

The Jaccard index is an important similarity measure for item sets and Boolean data. On large datasets, an exact similarity computation is often infeasible for all item pairs both due to time and space constraints, giving rise to faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Marc Bury , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Mara Sorella

Given a collection of objects and an associated similarity measure, the all-pairs similarity search problem asks us to find all pairs of objects with similarity greater than a certain user-specified threshold. Locality-sensitive hashing…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Venu Satuluri , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

We study the $r$-near neighbors reporting problem ($r$-NN), i.e., reporting \emph{all} points in a high-dimensional point set $S$ that lie within a radius $r$ of a given query point $q$. Our approach builds upon on the locality-sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Ninh Pham

Similarity search (nearest neighbor search) is a problem of pursuing the data items whose distances to a query item are the smallest from a large database. Various methods have been developed to address this problem, and recently a lot of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Jingdong Wang , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song , Jianqiu Ji

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

In this paper, we propose a method for density-based clustering in high-dimensional spaces that combines Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) with the Quick Shift algorithm. The Quick Shift algorithm, known for its hierarchical clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sajjad Hashemian

The development of 3D scanning technology has enabled the acquisition of massive point cloud models with diverse structures and large scales, thereby presenting significant challenges in point cloud processing. Fast neighboring points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shurui Wang , Yuhe Zhang , Ruizhe Guo , Yaning Zhang , Yifei Xie , Xinyu Zhou

Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is an effective method of indexing a set of items to support efficient nearest neighbors queries in high-dimensional spaces. The basic idea of LSH is that similar items should produce hash collisions with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Haim Kaplan , Jay Tenenbaum

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental algorithmic technique widely employed in large-scale data processing applications, such as nearest-neighbor search, entity resolution, and clustering. However, its applicability in some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Runhui Wang , Luyang Kong , Yefan Tao , Andrew Borthwick , Davor Golac , Henrik Johnson , Shadie Hijazi , Dong Deng , Yongfeng Zhang

As data volumes continue to grow, clustering and outlier detection algorithms are becoming increasingly time-consuming. Classical index structures for neighbor search are no longer sustainable due to the "curse of dimensionality". Instead,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Li Wang

We present a simple but powerful reinterpretation of kernelized locality-sensitive hashing (KLSH), a general and popular method developed in the vision community for performing approximate nearest-neighbor searches in an arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ke Jiang , Qichao Que , Brian Kulis

This work suggests faster and space-efficient index construction algorithms for LSH for Euclidean distance (\textit{a.k.a.}~\ELSH) and cosine similarity (\textit{a.k.a.}~\SRP). The index construction step of these LSHs relies on grouping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bhisham Dev Verma , Rameshwar Pratap

The explosive growth in big data has attracted much attention in designing efficient indexing and search methods recently. In many critical applications such as large-scale search and pattern matching, finding the nearest neighbors to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Jun Wang , Wei Liu , Sanjiv Kumar , Shih-Fu Chang