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We discuss the problem of performing similarity search over function spaces. To perform search over such spaces in a reasonable amount of time, we use {\it locality-sensitive hashing} (LSH). We present two methods that allow LSH functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Will Shand , Stephen Becker

For a metric space $(X, d)$, a family $\mathcal{H}$ of locality sensitive hash functions is called $(r, cr, p_1, p_2)$ sensitive if a randomly chosen function $h\in \mathcal{H}$ has probability at least $p_1$ (at most $p_2$) to map any $a,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Kevin Lu , Feng Luo , Cheng Xin

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 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

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH), introduced by Indyk and Motwani in STOC '98, has been an extremely influential framework for nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data sets. While theoretical work has focused on the approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Tobias Christiani , Rasmus Pagh , Mikkel Thorup

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

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

Locality-sensitive hashing~[Indyk,Motwani'98] is a classical data structure for approximate nearest neighbor search. It allows, after a close to linear time preprocessing of the input dataset, to find an approximately nearest neighbor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Christian Sohler

We show the existence of a Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) family for the angular distance that yields an approximate Near Neighbor Search algorithm with the asymptotically optimal running time exponent. Unlike earlier algorithms with this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Alexandr Andoni , Piotr Indyk , Thijs Laarhoven , Ilya Razenshteyn , Ludwig Schmidt

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 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, searches in data are becoming increasingly time-consuming. Classical index structures for neighbor search are no longer sustainable due to the "curse of dimensionality". Instead, approximated index…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Li Wang , Lilon Wangner

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,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Huy L. Nguyen

A Locality-Sensitive Hash (LSH) function is called $(r,cr,p_1,p_2)$-sensitive, if two data-points with a distance less than $r$ collide with probability at least $p_1$ while data points with a distance greater than $cr$ collide with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a popular data-independent indexing method for approximate similarity search, where random projections followed by quantization hash the points from the database so as to ensure that the probability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Saehoon Kim , Seungjin Choi

Nearest Neighbor(s) search is the fundamental computational primitive to tackle massive dataset. Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) has been a bracing tool for Nearest Neighbor(s) search in high dimensional spaces. However, traditional LSH…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Nan Zhu , Wenbo He , Xue Liu , Yu Hua

Similarity search is a fundamental algorithmic primitive, widely used in many computer science disciplines. Given a set of points $S$ and a radius parameter $r>0$, the $r$-near neighbor ($r$-NN) problem asks for a data structure that, given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Martin Aumüller , Sariel Har-Peled , Sepideh Mahabadi , Rasmus Pagh , Francesco Silvestri

Among many solutions to the high-dimensional approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is known for its sub-linear query time and robust theoretical guarantee on query accuracy. Traditional LSH…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yao Tian , Xi Zhao , Xiaofang Zhou

We present an I/O-efficient algorithm for computing similarity joins based on locality-sensitive hashing (LSH). In contrast to the filtering methods commonly suggested our method has provable sub-quadratic dependency on the data size.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Rasmus Pagh , Ninh Pham , Francesco Silvestri , Morten Stöckel

Due to the compelling efficiency in retrieval and storage, similarity-preserving hashing has been widely applied to approximate nearest neighbor search in large-scale image retrieval. However, existing methods have poor performance in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Qi Dai , Yupan Huang , Yilong Yin