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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

For a given dataset $\mathcal{D}$ and structured label $f$, the goal of Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (FANNS) algorithms is to find top-$k$ points closest to a query that satisfy label constraints, while ensuring both recall…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jiayang Shi , Yuzheng Cai , Weiguo Zheng

Distributed Nearest Neighbor Search (DNNS) locates service nodes that have shortest interactive delay towards requesting hosts. DNNS provides an important service for large-scale latency sensitive networked applications, such as VoIP,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-10 Yongquan Fu , Yijie Wang , Ernst Biersack

The increase in the dimensionality of neural embedding models has enhanced the accuracy of semantic search capabilities but also amplified the computational demands for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searches (ANNS). This complexity poses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jingjia Luo , Mingxing Zhang , Kang Chen , Xia Liao , Yingdi Shan , Jinlei Jiang , Yongwei Wu

In this paper we show how the complexity of performing nearest neighbor (NNS) search on a metric space is related to the expansion of the metric space. Given a metric space we look at the graph obtained by connecting every pair of points…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-05 Rina Panigrahy , Kunal Talwar , Udi Wieder

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional space is an essential operator in many online services, such as information retrieval and recommendation. Indices constructed by the state-of-the-art ANNS algorithms must be…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Kun Yu , Jiabao Jin , Xiaoyao Zhong , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen , Zhitao Shen , Jingkuan Song , Hengtao Shen , Xuemin Lin

Advances in embedding models for text, image, audio, and video drive progress across multiple domains, including retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation systems, and others. Many of these applications require an efficient method to…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Patrick Iff , Paul Bruegger , Marcin Chrapek , David Kochergin , Maciej Besta , Torsten Hoefler

Approximate nearest-neighbor search is a fundamental algorithmic problem that continues to inspire study due its essential role in numerous contexts. In contrast to most prior work, which has focused on point sets, we consider…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ahmed Abdelkader , David M. Mount

We study spectral algorithms for the high-dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search problem (NNS). In particular, we consider a semi-random setting where a dataset $P$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is chosen arbitrarily from an unknown subspace of low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Amirali Abdullah , Alexandr Andoni , Ravindran Kannan , Robert Krauthgamer

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANN) data structures have widespread applications in machine learning, computational biology, and text processing. The goal of ANN is to preprocess a set S so that, given a query q, we can find a point y…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Samuel McCauley

The approximate nearest neighbor problem ($\epsilon$-ANN) in high dimensional Euclidean space has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which has polynomial dependence in the dimension, sublinear query time, but…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Evangelos Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros

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

Common Neural Architecture Search methods generate large amounts of candidate architectures that need training in order to assess their performance and find an optimal architecture. To minimize the search time we use different performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 G. G. H. Franken , P. Singh , J. Vanschoren

Geometric data structures have been extensively studied in the regime where the dimension is much smaller than the number of input points. But in many scenarios in Machine Learning, the dimension can be much higher than the number of points…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Martin G. Herold , Danupon Nanongkai , Joachim Spoerhase , Nithin Varma , Zihang Wu

Motivated by applications in computer vision and databases, we introduce and study the Simultaneous Nearest Neighbor Search (SNN) problem. Given a set of data points, the goal of SNN is to design a data structure that, given a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Piotr Indyk , Robert Kleinberg , Sepideh Mahabadi , Yang Yuan

Neighbour embeddings (NE) allow the representation of high dimensional datasets into lower dimensional spaces and are often used in data visualisation. In practice, accelerated approximations are employed to handle very large datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Pierre Lambert , Edouard Couplet , Michel Verleysen , John Aldo Lee

Integrating the principles of approximate computing into the design of hardware-aware deep neural networks (DNN) has led to DNNs implementations showing good output quality and highly optimized hardware parameters such as low latency or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Michal Pinos , Lukas Sekanina , Vojtech Mrazek

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

Structural network embedding is a crucial step in enabling effective downstream tasks for complex systems that aims to project a network into a lower-dimensional space while preserving similarities among nodes. We introduce a simple and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Giuseppe Squillace , Mirco Tribastone , Max Tschaikowski , Andrea Vandin

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high dimensional space is essential in database and information retrieval. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in exploring efficient graph-based indices for the ANNS problem. Among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Cong Fu , Changxu Wang , Deng Cai