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Graph-based algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in the nearest neighbor search (NN-Search) problem. These empirical successes urge the need for theoretical results that guarantee the search quality and efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Anshumali Shrivastava , Zhao Song , Zhaozhuo Xu

Proximity graphs (PG) have gained increasing popularity as the state-of-the-art solutions to $k$-approximate nearest neighbor ($k$-ANN) search on high-dimensional data, which serves as a fundamental function in various fields, e.g.,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuo Yang , Jiadong Xie , Yingfan Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Xiyue Gao , Qianru Wang , Yanguo Peng , Jiangtao Cui

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) on GPUs is gaining increasing popularity for modern retrieval and recommendation workloads that operate over massive high-dimensional vectors. Graph-based indexes deliver high recall and throughput…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jifan Shi , Jianyang Gao , James Xia , Tamás Béla Fehér , 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

Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is widely adopted in numerous applications, such as recommendation systems, natural language processing, and computer vision. While recent works on GPU-based acceleration have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sukjin Kim , Seongyeon Park , Si Ung Noh , Junguk Hong , Taehee Kwon , Hunseong Lim , Jinho Lee

Range-filtered approximate nearest neighbor search (RFANNS) is increasingly critical for modern vector databases. However, existing solutions suffer from severe index inflation and construction overhead. Furthermore, they rely exclusively…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhonggen Li , Haoran Yu , Zixuan Xu , Yifan Zhu , Yunjun Gao

We introduce FastGraph, a novel GPU-optimized k-nearest neighbor algorithm specifically designed to accelerate graph construction in low-dimensional spaces (2-10 dimensions), critical for high-performance graph neural networks. Our method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Aarush Agarwal , Raymond He , Jan Kieseler , Matteo Cremonesi , Shah Rukh Qasim

Billion-scale high-dimensional approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search has become an important problem for searching similar objects among the vast amount of images and videos available online. The existing ANN methods are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wei Chen , Jincai Chen , Fuhao Zou , Yuan-Fang Li , Ping Lu , Qiang Wang , Wei Zhao

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) underpins modern applications such as information retrieval and recommendation. With the rapid growth of vector data, efficient indexing for real-time vector search has become rudimentary. Existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yuchen Peng , Dingyu Yang , Zhongle Xie , Ji Sun , Lidan Shou , Ke Chen , Gang Chen

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is fundamental to modern AI applications. Most existing solutions optimize query efficiency but fail to align with the practical requirements of modern workloads. In this paper, we outline six…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kejing Lu , Zhenpeng Pan , Jianbin Qin , Yoshiharu Ishikawa , Chuan Xiao

Hybrid search, which jointly optimizes vector similarity and structured predicate filtering, has become a fundamental building block for modern AI-driven systems. While recent predicate-aware ANN indices improve filtering efficiency on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xinkui Zhao , Hengxuan Lou , Yifan Zhang , Junjie Dai , Shuiguang Deng , Jianwei Yin

Recent years have witnessed the popularity and success of graph neural networks (GNN) in various scenarios. To obtain data-specific GNN architectures, researchers turn to neural architecture search (NAS), which has made impressive success…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Huan Zhao , Quanming Yao , Weiwei Tu

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a key retrieval technique for vector database and many data center applications, such as person re-identification and recommendation systems. It is also fundamental to retrieval augmented…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yitu Wang , Shiyu Li , Qilin Zheng , Linghao Song , Zongwang Li , Andrew Chang , Hai "Helen" Li , Yiran Chen

Similarity search finds application in specialized database systems handling complex data such as images or videos, which are typically represented by high-dimensional features and require specific indexing structures. This paper tackles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Jeff Johnson , Matthijs Douze , Hervé Jégou

Approximate nearest-neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms are a key part of the modern deep learning stack due to enabling efficient similarity search over high-dimensional vector space representations (i.e., embeddings) of data. Among various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Magdalen Dobson Manohar , Zheqi Shen , Guy E. Blelloch , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri , Yihan Sun

Recent years have witnessed the popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in various scenarios. To obtain optimal data-specific GNN architectures, researchers turn to neural architecture search (NAS) methods, which have made impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Huan Zhao , Lanning Wei , Quanming Yao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied to learning representation on graphs in many relational tasks. Recently, researchers study neural architecture search (NAS) to reduce the dependence of human expertise and explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Shaofei Cai , Liang Li , Xinzhe Han , Zheng-jun Zha , Qingming Huang

Graph-based algorithms have shown great empirical potential for the approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem. Currently, graph-based ANN search algorithms are designed mainly using heuristics, whereas theoretical analysis of such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Dantong Zhu , Minjia Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) emerged recently as a standard toolkit for learning from data on graphs. Current GNN designing works depend on immense human expertise to explore different message-passing mechanisms, and require manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Shaofei Cai , Liang Li , Jincan Deng , Beichen Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Li Su , Qingming Huang

As the state-of-the-art methods for high-dimensional data retrieval, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) approaches with graph-based indexes have attracted increasing attention and play a crucial role in many real-world applications,…