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Searching for the $k$-nearest neighbors (KNN) in multimodal data retrieval is computationally expensive, particularly due to the inherent difficulty in comparing similarity measures across different modalities. Recent advances in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Chengyu Gong , Gefei Shen , Luanzheng Guo , Nathan Tallent , Dongfang Zhao

We give an algorithm that for an input n-vertex graph G and integer k>0, in time 2^[O(k)]n either outputs that the treewidth of G is larger than k, or gives a tree decomposition of G of width at most 5k+4. This is the first algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Hans Bodlaender , Pål G. Drange , Markus S. Dregi , Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk

Graph-based algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in the nearest neighbor search (NN-Search) problem. These empirical successes urge the need for theoretical results that guarantee the search quality and efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Anshumali Shrivastava , Zhao Song , Zhaozhuo Xu

High-performance implementations of $k$-Nearest Neighbor Search ($k$NN) in low dimensions use tree-based data structures. Tree algorithms are hard to parallelize on GPUs due to their irregularity. However, newer Nvidia GPUs offer hardware…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Durga Mandarapu , Vani Nagarajan , Artem Pelenitsyn , Milind Kulkarni

Developing increasingly efficient and accurate algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search is a paramount goal in modern information retrieval. A primary approach to addressing this question is clustering, which involves partitioning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Thomas Vecchiato

We study the Approximate Nearest Neighbor problem for metric spaces where the query points are constrained to lie on a subspace of low doubling dimension, while the data is high-dimensional. We show that this problem can be solved…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Sariel Har-Peled , Nirman Kumar

A $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$NN) query determines the $k$ nearest points, using distance metrics, from a specific location. An all $k$-nearest neighbor (A$k$NN) query constitutes a variation of a $k$NN query and retrieves the $k$ nearest…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Nikolaos Nodarakis , Spyros Sioutas , Dimitrios Tsoumakos , Giannis Tzimas , Evaggelia Pitoura

We study the problem of sub-trajectory nearest-neighbor queries on polygonal curves under the continuous Fr\'echet distance. Given an $n$ vertex trajectory $P$ and an $m$ vertex query trajectory $Q$, we seek to report a vertex-aligned…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Joachim Gudmundsson , John Pfeifer , Martin P. Seybold

Exact nearest neighbor search is a computationally intensive process, and even its simpler sibling -- vector retrieval -- can be computationally complex. This is exacerbated when retrieving vectors which have high-dimension $d$ relative to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Richard Zhu

We design a space-efficient algorithm for performing depth-first search traversal(DFS) of a graph in $O(m+n\log^* n)$ time using $O(n)$ bits of space. While a normal DFS algorithm results in a DFS-tree (in case the graph is connected), our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Jayesh Choudhari , Manoj Gupta , Shivdutt Sharma

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

Nearest Neighbors Algorithm is a Lazy Learning Algorithm, in which the algorithm tries to approximate the predictions with the help of similar existing vectors in the training dataset. The predictions made by the K-Nearest Neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Chandrasekaran Anirudh Bhardwaj , Megha Mishra , Kalyani Desikan

We propose a new finding $k$-minima algorithm and prove that its query complexity is $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{kN})$, where $N$ is the number of data indices. Though the complexity is equivalent to that of an existing method, the proposed is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Kohei Miyamoto , Masakazu Iwamura , Koichi Kise

Different spatial objects that vary in their characteristics, such as molecular biology and geography, are presented in spatial areas. Methods to organize, manage, and maintain those objects in a structured manner are required. Data mining…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Dr. Mohammed Otair

A k nearest neighbor (kNN) query on road networks retrieves the k closest points of interest (POIs) by their network distances from a given location. Today, in the era of ubiquitous mobile computing, this is a highly pertinent query. While…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Tenindra Abeywickrama , Muhammad Aamir Cheema , David Taniar

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

In this paper we revisit the kernel density estimation problem: given a kernel $K(x, y)$ and a dataset of $n$ points in high dimensional Euclidean space, prepare a data structure that can quickly output, given a query $q$, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Moses Charikar , Michael Kapralov , Navid Nouri , Paris Siminelakis

Many distributed learning techniques have been motivated by the increasing size of datasets and their inability to fit into main memory on a single machine. We propose an algorithm that finds the nearest neighbor in a graph locally without…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Abhinav Mishra

Path planning has long been an important and active research area in robotics. To address challenges in high-dimensional motion planning, this study introduces the Force Direction Informed Trees (FDIT*), a sampling-based planner designed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Liding Zhang , Zhenshan Bing , Yu Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Lingyun Chen , Fan Wu , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

Karloff? and Shirley recently proposed summary trees as a new way to visualize large rooted trees (Eurovis 2013) and gave algorithms for generating a maximum-entropy k-node summary tree of an input n-node rooted tree. However, the algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Richard Cole , Howard Karloff