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Vector search underpins modern information-retrieval systems, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and search engines over unstructured text and images. As datasets scale to billions of vectors, disk-based vector search…

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Machine learning tasks over image databases often generate masks that annotate image content (e.g., saliency maps, segmentation maps, depth maps) and enable a variety of applications (e.g., determine if a model is learning spurious…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Dong He , Jieyu Zhang , Maureen Daum , Alexander Ratner , Magdalena Balazinska

We introduce the Visual Data Management System (VDMS), which enables faster access to big-visual-data and adds support to visual analytics. This is achieved by searching for relevant visual data via metadata stored as a graph, and enabling…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Luis Remis , Vishakha Gupta-Cledat , Christina Strong , Ragaad Altarawneh

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

Retrievers, which form one of the most important recommendation stages, are responsible for efficiently selecting possible positive samples to the later stages under strict latency limitations. Because of this, large-scale systems always…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xingyan Bin , Jianfei Cui , Wujie Yan , Zhichen Zhao , Xintian Han , Chongyang Yan , Feng Zhang , Xun Zhou , Qi Wu , Zuotao Liu

Vector quantization(VQ) is a hardware-friendly DNN compression method that can reduce the storage cost and weight-loading datawidth of hardware accelerators. However, conventional VQ techniques lead to significant accuracy loss because the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Shuaiting Li , Chengxuan Wang , Juncan Deng , Zeyu Wang , Zewen Ye , Zongsheng Wang , Haibin Shen , Kejie Huang

In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to the regularization models due to the presence of high-dimensional data in scientific research. Sparse support vector machine (SVM) are useful tools in high-dimensional data…

Computation · Statistics 2023-12-27 Jiawei Wen

There is a growing demand for supporting inference queries that combine Structured Query Language (SQL) and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) model inferences in database systems, to avoid data denormalization and transfer,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Lixi Zhou , Kanchan Chowdhury , Lulu Xie , Jaykumar Tandel , Hong Guan , Zhiwei Fan , Xinwei Fu , Jia Zou

We apply distributed language embedding methods from Natural Language Processing to assign a vector to each database entity associated token (for example, a token may be a word occurring in a table row, or the name of a column). These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Rajesh Bordawekar , Oded Shmueli

With the advancement of machine learning and deep learning, vector search becomes instrumental to many information retrieval systems, to search and find best matches to user queries based on their semantic similarities.These online services…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Minjia Zhang , Yuxiong He

The increasing prevalence of hybrid vector and relational data necessitates efficient, general support for queries that combine high-dimensional vector search with complex relational filtering. However, existing filtered search solutions…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Chunxiao Ye , Xiao Yan , Eric Lo

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a crucial operation in databases and artificial intelligence. While graph-based ANNS methods like HNSW and NSG excel in performance, they assume uniform query distribution. However, in…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yifan Zhu , Ruijie Zhao , Zhonggen Li , Baihua Zheng , Zhikun Zhang , Zhaoqiang Chen , Congcong Ge

Vector data management systems (VDMSs) have become an indispensable cornerstone in large-scale information retrieval and machine learning systems like large language models. To enhance the efficiency and flexibility of similarity search,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tiannuo Yang , Wen Hu , Wangqi Peng , Yusen Li , Jianguo Li , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu

Querying both structured and unstructured data has become a new paradigm in data analytics and recommendation. With unstructured data, such as text and videos, are converted to high-dimensional vectors and queried with approximate nearest…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Rui Ma , Kai Zhang , Zhenying He , Yinan Jing , X. Sean Wang , Zhenqiang Chen

Many modern search domains comprise high-dimensional vectors of floating point numbers derived from neural networks, in the form of embeddings. Typical embeddings range in size from hundreds to thousands of dimensions, making the size of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Richard Connor , Alan Dearle , Ben Claydon

In recent years, there has been a significant trend in deep neural networks (DNNs), particularly transformer-based models, of developing ever-larger and more capable models. While they demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, their growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Amit Baras , Alon Zolfi , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Approximate $k$-nearest neighbor (AKNN) search is a fundamental problem with wide applications. To reduce memory and accelerate search, vector quantization is widely adopted. However, existing quantization methods either rely on codebooks…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mingyu Yang , Liuchang Jing , Wentao Li , Wei Wang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is essential for various data-intensive applications, including recommendation systems, image retrieval, and machine learning. Scaling ANNS to handle billions of high-dimensional vectors on a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Qian Xu , Feng Zhang , Chengxi Li , Lei Cao , Zheng Chen , Jidong Zhai , Xiaoyong Du

This paper describes a method for using Grovers algorithm to create a quantum vector database, the database stores embeddings based on Controlled-S gates, which represent a binary numerical value. This value represents the embeddings value.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Cesar Borisovich Pronin , Andrey Vladimirovich Ostroukh

High-dimensional vector similarity search (HVSS) is gaining prominence as a powerful tool for various data science and AI applications. As vector data scales up, in-memory indexes pose a significant challenge due to the substantial increase…