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Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a fundamental building block in information retrieval with graph-based indices being the current state-of-the-art and widely used in the industry. Recent advances in graph-based indices have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Aditi Singh , Suhas Jayaram Subramanya , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri

Vector search, the task of finding the k-nearest neighbors of a query vector against a database of high-dimensional vectors, underpins many machine learning applications, including retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation systems, and…

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a key component in many modern machine learning pipelines; recent use cases include retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector databases. Clustering-based ANN algorithms, that use score…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Elias Jääsaari , Ville Hyvönen , Teemu Roos

Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search (ANNS) is a subroutine in algorithms routinely employed in information retrieval, pattern recognition, data mining, image processing, and beyond. Recent works have established that graph-based ANNS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Karthik V. , Saim Khan , Somesh Singh , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri , Jyothi Vedurada

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a foundational component of many modern retrieval and recommendation systems. Currently, almost all algorithms follow an $\epsilon$-Recall-Bounded principle when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Liming Xiang , Jing Feng , Ziqi Yin , Zijian Li , Daihao Xue , Hongchao Qin , Ronghua Li , Guoren Wang

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a widely applied technique in modern intelligent applications, such as recommendation systems and vector databases. Therefore, efficient and high-throughput execution of ANN search has become…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zihan Liu , Wentao Ni , Jingwen Leng , Yu Feng , Cong Guo , Quan Chen , Chao Li , Minyi Guo , Yuhao Zhu

Large-scale visual localization systems continue to rely on 3D point clouds built from image collections using structure-from-motion. While the 3D points in these models are represented using local image features, directly matching a query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Dror Aiger , André Araujo , Simon Lynen

Learned dense representations are a popular family of techniques for encoding queries and documents using high-dimensional embeddings, which enable retrieval by performing approximate k nearest-neighbors search (A-kNN). A popular technique…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Francesco Busolin , Claudio Lucchese , Franco Maria Nardini , Salvatore Orlando , Raffaele Perego , Salvatore Trani

Large-scale Nearest Neighbor (NN) search, though widely utilized in the similarity search field, remains challenged by the computational limitations inherent in processing large scale data. In an effort to decrease the computational expense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ashley N. Abraham , Andrew Strelzoff , Haley R. Dozier , Althea C. Henslee , Mark A. Chappell

The in-memory approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms have achieved great success for fast high-recall query processing, but are extremely inefficient when handling hybrid queries with unstructured (i.e., feature vectors) and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wei Wu , Junlin He , Yu Qiao , Guoheng Fu , Li Liu , Jin Yu

In embedding-based retrieval, Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search enables efficient retrieval of similar items from large-scale datasets. While maximizing recall of relevant items is usually the goal of retrieval systems, a low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Nicholas Rossi , Juexin Lin , Feng Liu , Zhen Yang , Tony Lee , Alessandro Magnani , Ciya Liao

Nearest neighbor search and k-nearest neighbor graph construction are two fundamental issues arise from many disciplines such as multimedia information retrieval, data-mining and machine learning. They become more and more imminent given…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Wan-Lei Zhao , Hui Wang , Chong-Wah Ngo

In this paper we present an efficient method for visual descriptors retrieval based on compact hash codes computed using a multiple k-means assignment. The method has been applied to the problem of approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Simone Ercoli , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Proximity graphs (PG) have gained increasing popularity as the state-of-the-art solutions to $k$-approximate nearest neighbor ($k$-ANN) search on high-dimensional data, which serves as a fundamental function in various fields, e.g.,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuo Yang , Jiadong Xie , Yingfan Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Xiyue Gao , Qianru Wang , Yanguo Peng , Jiangtao Cui

Approximate nearest neighbor algorithms are used to speed up nearest neighbor search in a wide array of applications. However, current indexing methods feature several hyperparameters that need to be tuned to reach an acceptable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Elias Jääsaari , Ville Hyvönen , Teemu Roos

Approximate K Nearest Neighbor (AKNN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a critical yet challenging problem. In AKNN search, distance computation is the core task that dominates the runtime. Existing approaches typically use approximate…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mingyu Yang , Wentao Li , Jiabao Jin , Xiaoyao Zhong , Xiangyu Wang , Zhitao Shen , Wei Jia , Wei Wang

Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Search (ANNS) efficiently finds data items whose embeddings are close to that of a given query in a high-dimensional space, aiming to balance accuracy with speed. Used in recommendation systems, image and video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Vansh Ramani , Alexis Schlomer , Akash Nayar , Sayan Ranu , Jignesh M. Patel , Panagiotis Karras

Both supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms have been used to learn partition-based index structures for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Existing supervised algorithms formulate the learning task as finding a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ville Hyvönen , Elias Jääsaari , Teemu Roos

State-of-the-art algorithms for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) such as DiskANN, FAISS-IVF, and HNSW build data dependent indices that offer substantially better accuracy and search efficiency over data-agnostic indices by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shikhar Jaiswal , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Ankit Garg , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri , Sheshansh Agrawal

Amidst an increasing number of infected cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is essential to trace, as early as possible, the susceptible people who might have been infected by the disease due to their close proximity with people who were…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Chandan Biswas , Debasis Ganguly , Ujjwal Bhattacharya