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Fast nearest neighbor searching is becoming an increasingly important tool in solving many large-scale problems. Recently a number of approaches to learning data-dependent hash functions have been developed. In this work, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Xi Li , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Anthony Dick

Recently, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) was shown to be effective for MIPS and several algorithms including $L_2$-ALSH, Sign-ALSH and Simple-LSH have been proposed. In this paper, we introduce the norm-range partition technique, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xiao Yan , Xinyan Dai , Jie Liu , Kaiwen Zhou , James Cheng

Modern mainstream persistent key-value storage engines utilize Log-Structured Merge tree (LSM-tree) based designs, optimizing read/write performance by leveraging sequential disk I/O. However, the advent of SSDs, with their significant…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Jin Jiang , Dongsheng He , Yu Hu , Dong Liu , Chenfan Xiao , Hongxiao Bi , Yusong Zhang , Chaoqu Jiang , Zhijun Fu

The field of Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) has recently attained impressive results, including the discovery of state-of-the-art machine learning solutions, such as neural image classifiers. This is often done by applying an…

Learning hash functions/codes for similarity search over multi-view data is attracting increasing attention, where similar hash codes are assigned to the data objects characterizing consistently neighborhood relationship across views.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lin Wu , Yang Wang

In the problem of minimal perfect hashing, we are given a size $k$ subset $\mathcal{A}$ of a universe of keys $[n] = \{1,2, \cdots, n\}$, for which we wish to construct a hash function $h: [n] \to [k]$ such that $h(\cdot)$ maps…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ryan Song , Emre Telatar

Consistent hashing is a technique for distributing data across a network of nodes in a way that minimizes reorganization when nodes join or leave the network. It is extensively applied in modern distributed systems as a fundamental…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Massimo Coluzzi , Amos Brocco , Alessandro Antonucci , Tiziano Leidi

Memory-Hard Functions (MHF) are a useful cryptographic primitive to build egalitarian proofs-of-work and to help protect low entropy secrets (e.g., user passwords) against brute-forces attacks. Ideally, we would like for a MHF to have the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jeremiah Blocki , Blake Holman

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental technique for similarity search and similarity estimation in high-dimensional spaces. The basic idea is that similar objects should produce hash collisions with probability significantly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Joachim Gudmundsson , Rasmus Pagh

Consistent hashing is a technique that can minimize key remapping when the number of hash buckets changes. The paper proposes a fast consistent hash algorithm (called power consistent hash) that has $O(1)$ expected time for key lookup,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Eric Leu

Recent advances in random linear systems on finite fields have paved the way for the construction of constant-time data structures representing static functions and minimal perfect hash functions using less space with respect to existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Marco Genuzio , Giuseppe Ottaviano , Sebastiano Vigna

Consistent hashing is fundamental to distributed systems, but ring-based schemes can exhibit high peak-to-average load ratios unless they use many virtual nodes, while multi-probe methods improve balance at the cost of scattered memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yongjie Guan

We consider a new construction of locality-sensitive hash functions for Hamming space that is \emph{covering} in the sense that is it guaranteed to produce a collision for every pair of vectors within a given radius $r$. The construction is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Rasmus Pagh

Hashing techniques are in great demand for a wide range of real-world applications such as image retrieval and network compression. Nevertheless, existing approaches could hardly guarantee a satisfactory performance with the extremely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yadan Luo , Zi Huang , Yang Li , Fumin Shen , Yang Yang , Peng Cui

In recent years, multi-view multi-label learning (MVML) has attracted extensive attention due to its close alignment to real-world scenarios. Information-theoretic methods have gained prominence for learning nonlinear correlations. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Cheng Peng , Yonghao Li , Wanfu Gao , Jie Wen , Weiping Ding

We describe a consistent hashing algorithm which performs multiple lookups per key in a hash table of nodes. It requires no additional storage beyond the hash table, and achieves a peak-to-average load ratio of 1 + epsilon with just 1 +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Ben Appleton , Michael O'Reilly

Learning-based hashing algorithms are ``hot topics" because they can greatly increase the scale at which existing methods operate. In this paper, we propose a new learning-based hashing method called ``fast supervised discrete hashing"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jie Gui , Tongliang Liu , Zhenan Sun , Dacheng Tao , Tieniu Tan

Memory-hard functions (MHF) are functions whose evaluation cost is dominated by memory cost. MHFs are egalitarian, in the sense that evaluating them on dedicated hardware (like FPGAs or ASICs) is not much cheaper than on off-the-shelf…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Joel Alwen , Jeremiah Blocki , Krzysztof Pietrzak

Due to its low storage cost and fast query speed, cross-modal hashing (CMH) has been widely used for similarity search in multimedia retrieval applications. However, almost all existing CMH methods are based on hand-crafted features which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Qing-Yuan Jiang , Wu-Jun Li

Finding similar data in high-dimensional spaces is one of the important tasks in multimedia applications. Approaches introduced to find exact searching techniques often use tree-based index structures which are known to suffer from the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Omid Jafari , Parth Nagarkar