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The Graph Edit Distance (GED) is an important metric for measuring the similarity between two (labeled) graphs. It is defined as the minimum cost required to convert one graph into another through a series of (elementary) edit operations.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Fabrizio Rossi

Graph-based nearest neighbor search methods have seen a surge of popularity in recent years, offering state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications. Central to these methods is the task of constructing a sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Alex Conway , Laxman Dhulipala , Martin Farach-Colton , Rob Johnson , Ben Landrum , Christopher Musco , Yarin Shechter , Torsten Suel , Richard Wen

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

In this paper, we develop deterministic fully dynamic algorithms for computing approximate distances in a graph with worst-case update time guarantees. In particular, we obtain improved dynamic algorithms that, given an unweighted and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari

We revisit Approximate Graph Propagation (AGP), a unified framework which captures various graph propagation tasks, such as PageRank, feature propagation in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhuowei Zhao , Zhuo Zhang , Hanzhi Wang , Junhao Gan , Zhifeng Bao , Jianzhong Qi

Finding relevant prior art is crucial when deciding whether to file a new patent application or invalidate an existing patent. However, searching for prior art is challenging due to the large number of patent documents and the need for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Krzysztof Daniell , Igor Buzhinsky , Sebastian Björkqvist

Deep graph embedding is an important approach for community discovery. Deep graph neural network with self-supervised mechanism can obtain the low-dimensional embedding vectors of nodes from unlabeled and unstructured graph data. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shuliang Xu , Shenglan Liu , Lin Feng

Recently similarity graphs became the leading paradigm for efficient nearest neighbor search, outperforming traditional tree-based and LSH-based methods. Similarity graphs perform the search via greedy routing: a query traverses the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Dmitry Baranchuk , Dmitry Persiyanov , Anton Sinitsin , Artem Babenko

Indices for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) are a basic component for information retrieval and widely used in database, search, recommendation and RAG systems. In these scenarios, documents or other objects are inserted into and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Haike Xu , Magdalen Dobson Manohar , Philip A. Bernstein , Badrish Chandramouli , Richard Wen , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental problem in many areas of machine learning and data mining. During the past decade, numerous hashing algorithms are proposed to solve this problem. Every proposed algorithm claims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Deng Cai

Searching techniques in most of existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are mainly dominated by differentiable methods for the efficiency reason. In contrast, we develop an efficient continuous evolutionary approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

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

Although many algorithms have been designed to construct Bayesian network structures using different approaches and principles, they all employ only two methods: those based on independence criteria, and those based on a scoring function…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 S. Acid , L. M. de Campos

The goal of causal discovery is to learn a directed acyclic graph from data. One of the most well-known methods for this problem is Greedy Equivalence Search (GES). GES searches for the graph by incrementally and greedily adding or removing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Achille Nazaret , David Blei

Graph neural architecture search has received a lot of attention as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has been successfully applied on the non-Euclidean data recently. However, exploring all possible GNNs architectures in the huge search space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Jiamin Chen , Jianliang Gao , Yibo Chen , Oloulade Babatounde Moctard , Tengfei Lyu , Zhao Li

This paper presents an efficient and scalable framework for Range Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search (RF-ANNS) over high-dimensional vectors associated with attribute values. Given a query vector $q$ and a range $[l, h]$, RF-ANNS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Anqi Liang , Pengcheng Zhang , Bin Yao , Zhongpu Chen , Yitong Song , Guangxu Cheng

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS), as the core of vector databases (VectorDBs), has become widely used in modern AI and ML systems, powering applications from information retrieval to bio-informatics. While graph-based ANNS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dingyi Kang , Dongming Jiang , Hanshen Yang , Hang Liu , Bingzhe Li

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) enabled the discovery of state-of-the-art architectures in many domains. However, the success of NAS depends on the definition of the search space. Current search spaces are defined as a static sequence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Stanisław Jastrzębski , Quentin de Laroussilhe , Mingxing Tan , Xiao Ma , Neil Houlsby , Andrea Gesmundo

Many algorithms have been proposed in the last ten years for the discovery of dynamic communities. However, these methods are seldom compared between themselves. In this article, we propose a generator of dynamic graphs with planted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Remy Cazabet , Souaad Boudebza , Giulio Rossetti

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional space is an essential operator in many online services, such as information retrieval and recommendation. Indices constructed by the state-of-the-art ANNS algorithms must be…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Kun Yu , Jiabao Jin , Xiaoyao Zhong , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen , Zhitao Shen , Jingkuan Song , Hengtao Shen , Xuemin Lin