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Fast item ranking is an important task in recommender systems. In previous works, graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) approaches have demonstrated good performance on item ranking tasks with generic searching/matching measures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Khoa Doan , Shulong Tan , Weijie Zhao , Ping Li

Graph-based approaches to nearest neighbor search are popular and powerful tools for handling large datasets in practice, but they have limited theoretical guarantees. We study the worst-case performance of recent graph-based approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Piotr Indyk , Haike Xu

Approximate K-Nearest Neighbor Search (AKNNS) has now become ubiquitous in modern applications, for example, as a fast search procedure with two tower deep learning models. Graph-based methods for AKNNS in particular have received great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Patrick H. Chen , Chang Wei-cheng , Yu Hsiang-fu , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Hsieh Cho-jui

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

Nearest neighbor search (NNS) has a wide range of applications in information retrieval, computer vision, machine learning, databases, and other areas. Existing state-of-the-art algorithm for nearest neighbor search, Hierarchical Navigable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ishita Doshi , Dhritiman Das , Ashish Bhutani , Rajeev Kumar , Rushi Bhatt , Niranjan Balasubramanian

We present a novel search optimization solution for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search on resource-constrained edge devices. Traditional ANN approaches fall short in meeting the specific demands of real-world scenarios, e.g., skewed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jianwei Zhang , Helian Feng , Xin He , Grant P. Strimel , Farhad Ghassemi , Ali Kebarighotbi

Large-scale visual localization systems continue to rely on 3D point clouds built from image collections using structure-from-motion. While the 3D points in these models are represented using local image features, directly matching a query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Dror Aiger , André Araujo , Simon Lynen

Much recent work has been devoted to approximate nearest neighbor queries. Motivated by applications in recommender systems, we consider approximate furthest neighbor (AFN) queries and present a simple, fast, and highly practical data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Rasmus Pagh , Francesco Silvestri , Johan Sivertsen , Matthew Skala

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

This paper addresses the problem of Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search in pattern recognition where feature vectors in a database are encoded as compact codes in order to speed-up the similarity search in large-scale databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Sohrab Ferdowsi , Slava Voloshynovskiy , Dimche Kostadinov , Taras Holotyak

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

Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Search (ANNS) efficiently finds data items whose embeddings are close to that of a given query in a high-dimensional space, aiming to balance accuracy with speed. Used in recommendation systems, image and video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Vansh Ramani , Alexis Schlomer , Akash Nayar , Sayan Ranu , Jignesh M. Patel , Panagiotis Karras

Sparse embeddings of data form an attractive class due to their inherent interpretability: Every dimension is tied to a term in some vocabulary, making it easy to visually decipher the latent space. Sparsity, however, poses unique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sebastian Bruch , Franco Maria Nardini , Cosimo Rulli , Rossano Venturini

Nearest neighbor search has found numerous applications in machine learning, data mining and massive data processing systems. The past few years have witnessed the popularity of the graph-based nearest neighbor search paradigm because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hongya Wang , Zhizheng Wang , Wei Wang , Yingyuan Xiao , Zeng Zhao , Kaixiang Yang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is fundamental to modern AI applications. Most existing solutions optimize query efficiency but fail to align with the practical requirements of modern workloads. In this paper, we outline six…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kejing Lu , Zhenpeng Pan , Jianbin Qin , Yoshiharu Ishikawa , Chuan Xiao

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional Euclidean space has a broad range of applications. Among existing ANN algorithms, graph-based methods have shown superior performance in terms of the time-accuracy trade-off.…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yutong Gou , Jianyang Gao , Yuexuan Xu , Cheng Long

Similarity graphs are an active research direction for the nearest neighbor search (NNS) problem. New algorithms for similarity graph construction are continuously being proposed and analyzed by both theoreticians and practitioners.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Dmitry Baranchuk , Artem Babenko

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

We present a new approach for efficient approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensional spaces, extending the idea of Product Quantization. We propose a two-level product and vector quantization tree that reduces the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Patrick Wieschollek , Oliver Wang , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Hierarchical graph-based algorithms such as HNSW have achieved state-of-the-art performance for Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search in practice, yet they often lack theoretical guarantees on query time or recall due to their heavy use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mohsen Dehghankar , Abolfazl Asudeh