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Fast Nearest Neighbor (NN) search is a fundamental challenge in large-scale data processing and analytics, particularly for analyzing multimedia contents which are often of high dimensionality. Instead of using exact NN search, extensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Ji Wan , Sheng Tang , Yongdong Zhang , Jintao Li , Pengcheng Wu , Steven C. H. Hoi

We study the Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) problem under a powerful adaptive adversary that controls both the dataset and a sequence of $Q$ queries. Primarily, for the high-dimensional regime of $d = \omega(\sqrt{Q})$, we introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Alexandr Andoni , Themistoklis Haris , Esty Kelman , Krzysztof Onak

Approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search has become a central task in modern data-intensive applications, particularly when operating on large, heterogeneous, or high-dimensional datasets. However, many existing ANN methods struggle in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Elena Garcia-Morato , Maria Jesus Algar , Cesar Alfaro , Felipe Ortega , Javier Gomez , Javier M. Moguerza

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in many areas of data mining, machine learning and computer vision. The performance of traditional hierarchical structure (tree) based methods decreases as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Cong Fu , Deng Cai

Similarity search is a key to a variety of applications including content-based search for images and video, recommendation systems, data deduplication, natural language processing, computer vision, databases, computational biology, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Vincent T. Lee , Amrita Mazumdar , Carlo C. del Mundo , Armin Alaghi , Luis Ceze , Mark Oskin

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

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

Approximate $k$ nearest neighbor (AKNN) search in high-dimensional space is a foundational problem in vector databases with widespread applications. Among the numerous AKNN indexes, Proximity Graph-based indexes achieve state-of-the-art…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Liuchang Jing , Mingyu Yang , Lei Li , Jianbin Qin , Wei Wang

The approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem is fundamental to efficiently serving many real-world machine learning applications. A number of techniques have been developed for ANN search that are efficient, accurate, and scalable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Philip Sun , Ruiqi Guo , Sanjiv Kumar

Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) has recently drawn a rapid increase of interest due to its core role in managing high-dimensional vector data in data science and AI applications. The interest is fueled by the success of neural embedding,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhen Peng , Minjia Zhang , Kai Li , Ruoming Jin , Bin Ren

We consider the popular $k$-means problem in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Recently Friggstad, Rezapour, Salavatipour [FOCS'16] and Cohen-Addad, Klein, Mathieu [FOCS'16] showed that the standard local search algorithm yields a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Vincent Cohen-Addad

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

Top-k Nearest Neighbors (kNN) problem on road network has numerous applications on location-based services. As direct search using the Dijkstra's algorithm results in a large search space, a plethora of complex-index-based approaches have…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiqi Wang , Long Yuan , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Zi Chen , Qing Liu

Large-scale approximate nearest neighbor search (ANN) has been gaining attention along with the latest machine learning researches employing ANNs. If the data is too large to fit in memory, it is necessary to search for the most similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Taiga Ikeda , Daisuke Miyashita , Jun Deguchi

Approximate $k$-nearest neighbor search (A$k$-NNS) is a core operation in vector databases, underpinning applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and image retrieval. In these scenarios, users often prefer diverse result…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jiachen Zhao , Xiao Yan , Eric Lo

Approximate nearest-neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms are a key part of the modern deep learning stack due to enabling efficient similarity search over high-dimensional vector space representations (i.e., embeddings) of data. Among various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Magdalen Dobson Manohar , Zheqi Shen , Guy E. Blelloch , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri , Yihan Sun

Algorithms often carry out equally many computations for "easy" and "hard" problem instances. In particular, algorithms for finding nearest neighbors typically have the same running time regardless of the particular problem instance. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Daniel LeJeune , Richard G. Baraniuk , Reinhard Heckel

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a cornerstone algorithm for information retrieval, recommendation systems, and machine learning applications. While x86-based architectures have historically dominated this domain, the…

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 (ANNS) is a crucial problem in information retrieval and AI applications. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in graph-based ANNS algorithms due to their superior efficiency and accuracy.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenxin Li , Shuibing He , Jiahao Guo , Xuechen Zhang , Xian-He Sun , Gang Chen