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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

We study the problem of computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal curves under transformations. First, we consider translations in the Euclidean plane. Given two curves $\pi$ and $\sigma$ of total complexity $n$ and a threshold…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Zijin Huang , André Nusser , Sampson Wong

Given two simplicial complexes in R^d, and start and end vertices in each complex, we show how to compute curves (in each complex) between these vertices, such that the Fr\'echet distance between these curves is minimized. As a polygonal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

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

We study approximating the continuous Fr\'echet distance of two curves with complexity $n$ and $m$, under the assumption that only one of the two curves is $c$-packed. Driemel, Har{-}Peled and Wenk DCG'12 studied Fr\'echet distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Thijs van der Horst , Tim Ophelders

In this paper we present the first provable approximate nearest-neighbor (ANN) algorithms for Bregman divergences. Our first algorithm processes queries in O(log^d n) time using O(n log^d n) space and only uses general properties of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Amirali Abdullah , John Moeller , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

We initiate the study of approximation algorithms and computational barriers for constructing sparse $\alpha$-navigable graphs [IX23, DGM+24], a core primitive underlying recent advances in graph-based nearest neighbor search. Given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Sanjeev Khanna , Ashwin Padaki , Erik Waingarten

We study metric data structures for curves in doubling spaces, such as trajectories of moving objects in Euclidean $\mathbb{R}^d$, where the distance between two curves is measured using the discrete Fr\'echet distance. We design data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Anne Driemel , Ioannis Psarros , Melanie Schmidt

In this paper, we revisit the classic approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected graphs. For unweighted graphs, we provide an algorithm for $2$-approximate APSP in $\tilde O(n^{2.5-r}+n^{\omega(r)})$ time, for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Michal Dory , Sebastian Forster , Yael Kirkpatrick , Yasamin Nazari , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Tijn de Vos

The Fr\'{e}chet distance is a well-studied similarity measure between curves that is widely used throughout computer science. Motivated by applications where curves stem from paths and walks on an underlying graph (such as a road network),…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Anne Driemel , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

In 2012 Driemel et al. \cite{DBLP:journals/dcg/DriemelHW12} introduced the concept of $c$-packed curves as a realistic input model. In the case when $c$ is a constant they gave a near linear time $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Joachim Gudmundsson , Yuan Sha , Sampson Wong

We present a new approach to approximate nearest-neighbor queries in fixed dimension under a variety of non-Euclidean distances. We are given a set $S$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, an approximation parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ahmed Abdelkader , Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

The article analyzes similarity of closed polygonal curves with respect to the Frechet metric, which is stronger than the well-known Hausdorff metric and therefore is more appropriate in some applications. An algorithm is described that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-18 M. Schlesinger , E. Vodolazskiy , V. Yakovenko

A $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate distance oracle of an edge-weighted graph is a data structure that returns an approximate shortest path distance between any two query vertices up to a $(1+\epsilon)$ factor. Thorup (FOCS 2001, JACM 2004) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Hung Le , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

In the classic polyline simplification problem we want to replace a given polygonal curve $P$, consisting of $n$ vertices, by a subsequence $P'$ of $k$ vertices from $P$ such that the polygonal curves $P$ and $P'$ are as close as possible.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Karl Bringmann , Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury

The \emph{Fr\'echet distance} is a well studied similarity measures between curves. The \emph{discrete Fr\'echet distance} is an analogous similarity measure, defined for a sequence $A$ of $m$ points and a sequence $B$ of $n$ points, where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Rinat Ben Avraham , Omrit Filtser , Haim Kaplan , Matthew J. Katz , Micha Sharir

The fine-grained complexity of computing the Fr\'echet distance has been a topic of much recent work, starting with the quadratic SETH-based conditional lower bound by Bringmann from 2014. Subsequent work established largely the same…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Lotte Blank , Anne Driemel

This paper proposes a new algorithm for reducing Approximate Nearest Neighbor problem to Approximate Near Neighbor problem. The advantage of this algorithm is that it achieves O(log n) query time. As a reduction problem, the uery time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Hengzhao Ma , Jianzhong Li

Let $P$ be a polygon with $k$ vertices. Let $R$ and $B$ be two simple, interior disjoint curves on the boundary of $P$, with $n$ and $m$ vertices. We show how to compute the Fr\'echet distance between $R$ and $B$ using the geodesic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

The Euclidean $k$-center problem is a classical problem that has been extensively studied in computer science. Given a set $\mathcal{G}$ of $n$ points in Euclidean space, the problem is to determine a set $\mathcal{C}$ of $k$ centers (not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Kevin Buchin , Anne Driemel , Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , Irina Kostitsyna , Maarten Löffler , Martijn Struijs