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$\newcommand{\ball}{\mathbb{B}}\newcommand{\dsQ}{{\mathcal{Q}}}\newcommand{\dsS}{{\mathcal{S}}}$In this work we study a fair variant of the near neighbor problem. Namely, given a set of $n$ points $P$ and a parameter $r$, the goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Sariel Har-Peled , Sepideh Mahabadi

We introduce a new variant of the nearest neighbor search problem, which allows for some coordinates of the dataset to be arbitrarily corrupted or unknown. Formally, given a dataset of $n$ points $P=\{ x_1,\ldots, x_n\}$ in high-dimensions,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Sariel Har-Peled , Sepideh Mahabadi

This paper proposes a new algorithm for reducing Approximate Nearest Neighbor problem to Approximate Near Neighbor problem. The advantage of this algorithm is that it achieves O(log n) query time. As a reduction problem, the uery time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Hengzhao Ma , Jianzhong Li

This paper addresses the problem of finding the nearest neighbor (or one of the R-nearest neighbors) of a query object q in a database of n objects. In contrast with most existing approaches, we can only access the ``hidden'' space in which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-14 Dominique Tschopp , Suhas Diggavi

Customizable contraction hierarchies are one of the most popular route planning frameworks in practice, due to their simplicity and versatility. In this work, we present a novel algorithm for finding k-nearest neighbors in customizable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Valentin Buchhold , Dorothea Wagner

Quite recently, the algorithmic community has focused on solving multiple shortest-path query problems beyond simple vertex-to-vertex queries, especially in the context of road networks. Unfortunately, this research cannot be generalized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Alexandros Efentakis , Dieter Pfoser

Nearest neighbor (kNN) methods have been gaining popularity in recent years in light of advances in hardware and efficiency of algorithms. There is a plethora of methods to choose from today, each with their own advantages and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Daniel Zoran , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Charles Blundell

This study proposes an efficient exact k-flexible aggregate nearest neighbor (k-FANN) search algorithm in road networks using the M-tree. The state-of-the-art IER-kNN algorithm used the R-tree and pruned off unnecessary nodes based on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Moonyoung Chung , Soon J. Hyun , Woong-Kee Loh

The k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) classification algorithm is one of the most widely-used lazy classifiers because of its simplicity and ease of implementation. It is considered to be an effective classifier and has many applications. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Stefanos Ougiaroglou , Georgios Evangelidis , Dimitris A. Dervos

Efficient index structures for fast approximate nearest neighbor queries are required in many applications such as recommendation systems. In high-dimensional spaces, many conventional methods suffer from excessive usage of memory and slow…

We propose a new algorithm for fast approximate nearest neighbor search based on the properties of ordered vectors. Data vectors are classified based on the index and sign of their largest components, thereby partitioning the space in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Luisa Verdoliva , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xinye Chen , Stefan Güttel

We investigate the problem of finding reverse nearest neighbors efficiently. Although provably good solutions exist for this problem in low or fixed dimensions, to this date the methods proposed in high dimensions are mostly heuristic. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-11-24 David Arthur , Steve Y. Oudot

KNN has the reputation to be the word simplest but efficient supervised learning algorithm used for either classification or regression. KNN prediction efficiency highly depends on the size of its training data but when this training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jude Tchaye-Kondi , Yanlong Zhai , Liehuang Zhu

Feature correspondence selection is pivotal to many feature-matching based tasks in computer vision. Searching for spatially k-nearest neighbors is a common strategy for extracting local information in many previous works. However, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Chen Zhao , Zhiguo Cao , Chi Li , Xin Li , Jiaqi Yang

Perhaps the most straightforward classifier in the arsenal or machine learning techniques is the Nearest Neighbour Classifier -- classification is achieved by identifying the nearest neighbours to a query example and using those neighbours…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Padraig Cunningham , Sarah Jane Delany

Approximate $k$ nearest neighbor (AKNN) search in high-dimensional space is a foundational problem in vector databases with widespread applications. Among the numerous AKNN indexes, Proximity Graph-based indexes achieve state-of-the-art…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Liuchang Jing , Mingyu Yang , Lei Li , Jianbin Qin , Wei Wang

Suppose $V$ is an $n$-element set where for each $x \in V$, the elements of $V \setminus \{x\}$ are ranked by their similarity to $x$. The $K$-nearest neighbor graph is a directed graph including an arc from each $x$ to the $K$ points of $V…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Jacob D. Baron , R. W. R. Darling

k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search is a fundamental primitive in geometry processing and computer graphics. While spatial partitioning structures such as kd-trees are standard, they are often manifold-blind, failing to exploit the intrinsic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Wang , Qinghao Guo , Haisen Zhao , Shiqing Xin , Shuangmin Chen , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

The recent improvements of graphics processing units (GPU) offer to the computer vision community a powerful processing platform. Indeed, a lot of highly-parallelizable computer vision problems can be significantly accelerated using GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-04-10 Vincent Garcia , Eric Debreuve , Michel Barlaud