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Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) in high-dimensional vector spaces has a wide range of real-world applications. Numerous methods have been proposed to handle ANNS efficiently, while graph-based indexes have gained prominence due…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Yifan Zhu , Bocheng Yu , Baihua Zheng , Yunjun Gao

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a fundamental building block in information retrieval with graph-based indices being the current state-of-the-art and widely used in the industry. Recent advances in graph-based indices have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Aditi Singh , Suhas Jayaram Subramanya , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri

Graph-based approaches to approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) enable fast, high-recall retrieval on billion-scale vector datasets. Among them, the Sparse Neighborhood Graph (SNG) is widely used due to its strong search performance.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Xinran Ma , Zhaoqi Zhou , Chuan Zhou , Zaijiu Shang , Guoliang Li , Zhiming Ma

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional metric spaces is a fundamental problem with many applications. Over the past decade, proximity graph (PG)-based indexes have demonstrated superior empirical performance over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Binhong Li , Xiao Yan , Shangqi Lu

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

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is essential for various data-intensive applications, including recommendation systems, image retrieval, and machine learning. Scaling ANNS to handle billions of high-dimensional vectors on a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Qian Xu , Feng Zhang , Chengxi Li , Lei Cao , Zheng Chen , Jidong Zhai , Xiaoyong Du

Nearest neighbor search and k-nearest neighbor graph construction are two fundamental issues arise from many disciplines such as multimedia information retrieval, data-mining and machine learning. They become more and more imminent given…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Wan-Lei Zhao , Hui Wang , Chong-Wah Ngo

Performing analytical tasks over graph data has become increasingly interesting due to the ubiquity and large availability of relational information. However, unlike images or sentences, there is no notion of sequence in networks. Nodes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Matheus Nunes , Gisele L. Pappa

In recent years, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) has played a pivotal role in modern search and recommendation systems, especially in emerging LLM applications like Retrieval-Augmented Generation. There is a growing exploration…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yiping Sun , Yang Shi , Jiaolong Du

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a critical component of modern AI systems, such as recommendation engines and retrieval-augmented large language models (RAG-LLMs). However, scaling ANNS to billion-entry datasets exposes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sitian Chen , Amelie Chi Zhou , Yucheng Shi , Yusen Li , Xin Yao

Approximate Nearest Neighbour (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in information retrieval, underpinning large-scale applications in computer vision, natural language processing, and cross-modal search. Hashing-based methods provide an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sean Moran

Approximate K nearest neighbor (AKNN) search is a fundamental and challenging problem. We observe that in high-dimensional space, the time consumption of nearly all AKNN algorithms is dominated by that of the distance comparison operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jianyang Gao , Cheng Long

Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) is a fundamental problem in data structures with wide-ranging applications, such as web search, recommendation systems, and, more recently, retrieval-augmented generations (RAG). In such recent applications, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siddharth Barman , Nirjhar Das , Shivam Gupta , Kirankumar Shiragur

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

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANN) is a common way to retrieve relevant search results, especially now in the context of large language models and retrieval augmented generation. One of the most widely used algorithms for ANN is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nina Mishra , Yonatan Naamad , Tal Wagner , Lichen Zhang

Near neighbor search (NNS) is a powerful abstraction for data access; however, data indexing is troublesome even for approximate indexes. For intrinsically high-dimensional data, high-quality fast searches demand either indexes with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Eric S. Tellez , Guillermo Ruiz , Edgar Chavez , Mario Graff

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

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a foundational component of many modern retrieval and recommendation systems. Currently, almost all algorithms follow an $\epsilon$-Recall-Bounded principle when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Liming Xiang , Jing Feng , Ziqi Yin , Zijian Li , Daihao Xue , Hongchao Qin , Ronghua Li , Guoren Wang

Graph neural architecture search (GraphNAS) has recently aroused considerable attention in both academia and industry. However, two key challenges seriously hinder the further research of GraphNAS. First, since there is no consensus for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yijian Qin , Ziwei Zhang , Xin Wang , Zeyang Zhang , Wenwu Zhu

We present a geometric framework for filtered approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Filtering a proximity graph by a metadata predicate produces a subgraph, a fiber, whose connectivity and geometry can differ sharply from the full…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Thuong Dang