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One of the approaches for the nearest neighbor search problem is to build a network which nodes correspond to the given set of indexed objects. In this case the search of the closest object can be thought as a search of a node in a network.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Alexander Ponomarenko , Irina Utkina , Mikhail Batsyn

In pattern recognition or machine learning, it is a very fundamental task to find nearest neighbors of a given point. All the methods for the task work basically by comparing the given point to all the points in the data set. That is why…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Hayoung Um , Heeyoul Choi

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…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ben Claydon , Richard Connor , Alan Dearle

Nearest neighbor search is a fundamental data structure problem with many applications in machine learning, computer vision, recommendation systems and other fields. Although the main objective of the data structure is to quickly report…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Piyush Anand , Piotr Indyk , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Sepideh Mahabadi , Vikas C. Raykar , Kirankumar Shiragur , Haike Xu

We present a new approach for the approximate K-nearest neighbor search based on navigable small world graphs with controllable hierarchy (Hierarchical NSW, HNSW). The proposed solution is fully graph-based, without any need for additional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Yu. A. Malkov , D. A. Yashunin

We present the first provably sublinear time algorithm for approximate \emph{Maximum Inner Product Search} (MIPS). Our proposal is also the first hashing algorithm for searching with (un-normalized) inner product as the underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-23 Anshumali Shrivastava , Ping Li

We consider the problem of finding high dimensional approximate nearest neighbors. Suppose there are d independent rare features, each having its own independent statistics. A point x will have x_{i}=0 denote the absence of feature i, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-24 Moshe Dubiner

We propose a generic feature compression method for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) problems, which speeds up existing ANNS methods in a plug-and-play manner. Specifically, based on transformer, we propose a new network structure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Haokui Zhang , Buzhou Tang , Wenze Hu , Xiaoyu Wang

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 present efficient data structures for approximate nearest neighbor searching and approximate 2-point shortest path queries in a two-dimensional polygonal domain $P$ with $n$ vertices. Our goal is to store a dynamic set of $m$ point sites…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Joost van der Laan , Frank Staals , Lorenzo Theunissen

All pairs similarity search is a problem where a set of data objects is given and the task is to find all pairs of objects that have similarity above a certain threshold for a given similarity measure-of-interest. When the number of points…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Aniket Chakrabarti , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Fast k-Nearest Neighbor search over real-valued vector spaces (KNN) is an important algorithmic task for information retrieval and recommendation systems. We present a method for using reduced precision to represent vectors through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anthony Ko , Iman Keivanloo , Vihan Lakshman , Eric Schkufza

Nearest neighbor search on high-dimensional vectors is fundamental in modern AI and database systems. In many real-world applications, queries involve constraints on multiple numeric attributes, giving rise to range-filtering approximate…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuanhang Yu , Dawei Cheng , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Hashing is one of the most efficient techniques for approximate nearest neighbour search for large scale image retrieval. Most of the techniques are based on hand-engineered features and do not give optimal results all the time. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Jithin James

Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) is a central task in knowledge representation, learning, and reasoning. There is vast literature on efficient algorithms for constructing data structures and performing exact and approximate NNS. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-10 Blake Mason , Ardhendu Tripathy , Robert Nowak

Efficient indexing and searching of high dimensional data has been an area of active research due to the growing exploitation of high dimensional data and the vulnerability of traditional search methods to the curse of dimensionality. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yu Zhong

Similarity searches are a critical task in data mining. As data sets grow larger, exact nearest neighbor searches quickly become unfeasible, leading to the adoption of approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) searches. ANN has been studied for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alima Subedi , Sankalpa Pokharel , Satish Puri

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

Adaptive Random Testing (ART) enhances the testing effectiveness (including fault-detection capability) of Random Testing (RT) by increasing the diversity of the random test cases throughout the input domain. Many ART algorithms have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Rubing Huang , Chenhui Cui , Junlong Lian , Dave Towey , Weifeng Sun , Haibo Chen

A variety of pruning methods have been introduced for over-parameterized Recurrent Neural Networks to improve efficiency in terms of power consumption and storage utilization. These advances motivate a new paradigm, termed `hyperpruning',…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Caleb Zheng , Eli Shlizerman