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The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose experiment under construction in southern China. JUNO aims to determine the neutrino mass ordering and precisely measure the neutrino oscillation parameters by…
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.…
The problem of landmark recognition has achieved excellent results in small-scale datasets. When dealing with large-scale retrieval, issues that were irrelevant with small amount of data, quickly become fundamental for an efficient…
We present a geometric framework for filtered approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Filtering a proximity graph by a metadata predicate produces a subgraph, a fiber, whose connectivity and geometry can differ sharply from the full…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is crucial for improving the quality of large language models by injecting proper contexts extracted from external sources. RAG requires high-throughput, low-latency Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search…
Fixed Radius Near Neighbor (FRNN) search is an alternative to the widely used k Nearest Neighbors (kNN) search. Unlike kNN, FRNN determines a label or an estimate for a test sample based on all training samples within a predefined distance.…
Geometric Near-neighbor Access Tree (GNAT) is a metric space indexing method based on hierarchical hyperplane partitioning of the space. While GNAT is very efficient in proximity searching, it has a bad reputation of being a memory hog. We…
Efficient index structures for fast approximate nearest neighbor queries are required in many applications such as recommendation systems. In high-dimensional spaces, many conventional methods suffer from excessive usage of memory and slow…
The fastest indexes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search today are also the slowest to build: graph-based methods like HNSW and Vamana achieve state-of-the-art query performance but have large construction times due to relying on…
As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the key mechanism for expanding model knowledge and reducing hallucinations. Central to RAG is approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS),…
There is a growing need to deploy machine learning for different tasks on a wide array of new hardware platforms. Such deployment scenarios require tackling multiple challenges, including identifying a model architecture that can achieve a…
Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) is a central task in knowledge representation, learning, and reasoning. There is vast literature on efficient algorithms for constructing data structures and performing exact and approximate NNS. This paper…
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high dimensional space is essential in database and information retrieval. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in exploring efficient graph-based indices for the ANNS problem. Among…
Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search has achieved great success in many tasks. However, existing popular methods for ANN search, such as hashing and quantization methods, are designed for static databases only. They cannot handle well…
Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has…
We propose a generic feature compression method for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) problems, which speeds up existing ANNS methods in a plug-and-play manner. Specifically, based on transformer, we propose a new network structure…
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…
The Approximate Near Neighbor (ANN) problem is a cornerstone in high-dimensional data analysis, with applications ranging from information retrieval to data mining. Among the most successful paradigms for solving ANN in high-dimensional…
Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) at billion scale is fundamentally an out-of-core problem: vectors and indexes live on SSD, so performance is dominated by I/O rather than compute. Under skewed semantic embeddings, existing…
Vector databases typically rely on approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search to retrieve the top-k closest vectors to a query in embedding space. While effective, this approach often yields semantically redundant results, missing the…