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Given a set $S$ of $n$ distinct keys, a function $f$ that bijectively maps the keys of $S$ into the range $\{0,\ldots,n-1\}$ is called a minimal perfect hash function for $S$. Algorithms that find such functions when $n$ is large and retain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Roberto Trani

Hashing methods have been widely used for efficient similarity retrieval on large scale image database. Traditional hashing methods learn hash functions to generate binary codes from hand-crafted features, which achieve limited accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Jian Zhang , Yuxin Peng

The existing work on densification of one permutation hashing reduces the query processing cost of the $(K,L)$-parameterized Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) algorithm with minwise hashing, from $O(dKL)$ to merely $O(d + KL)$, where $d$ is…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-19 Anshumali Shrivastava , Ping Li

Our context of interest is how binary locality sensitive hash (LSH) functions can be used to solve the approximate near neighbour (ANN) problem, which seeks to find the k closest elements of some dataset X to some further point q presented…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ben Claydon , Richard Connor , Alan Dearle

The Jaccard index is an important similarity measure for item sets and Boolean data. On large datasets, an exact similarity computation is often infeasible for all item pairs both due to time and space constraints, giving rise to faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Marc Bury , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Mara Sorella

The indexing algorithms for the high-dimensional nearest neighbor search (NNS) with the best worst-case guarantees are based on the randomized Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), and its derivatives. In practice, many heuristic approaches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Alexandr Andoni , Daniel Beaglehole

We present a powerful new loss function and training scheme for learning binary hash codes with any differentiable model and similarity function. Our loss function improves over prior methods by using log likelihood loss on top of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Martin Loncaric , Bowei Liu , Ryan Weber

Invertible Bloom Filter (IBF) is a data structure, which employs a small set of hash functions. An IBF allows for an efficient insertion and, with high probability, for an efficient extraction of the data. However, the success probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ivo Kubjas , Vitaly Skachek

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a widely accepted framework for privacy-preserving data collection. In LDP, many protocols rely on hash functions to implement user-side encoding and perturbation. However, the security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Berkay Kemal Balioglu , Alireza Khodaie , Mehmet Emre Gursoy

We introduce bloomRF as a unified method for approximate membership testing that supports both point- and range-queries. As a first core idea, bloomRF introduces novel prefix hashing to efficiently encode range information in the hash-code…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Bernhard Mößner , Christian Riegger , Arthur Bernhardt , Ilia Petrov

Neyshabur and Srebro proposed Simple-LSH, which is the state-of-the-art hashing method for maximum inner product search (MIPS) with performance guarantee. We found that the performance of Simple-LSH, in both theory and practice, suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Xiao Yan , Jinfeng Li , Xinyan Dai , Hongzhi Chen , James Cheng

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH), introduced by Indyk and Motwani in STOC '98, has been an extremely influential framework for nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data sets. While theoretical work has focused on the approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Tobias Christiani , Rasmus Pagh , Mikkel Thorup

Hash center-based deep hashing methods improve upon pairwise or triplet-based approaches by assigning fixed hash centers to each class as learning targets, thereby avoiding the inefficiency of local similarity optimization. However, random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuo Yin , Zhiyuan Yin , Yuqing Hou , Rui Liu , Yong Chen , Dell Zhang

Locality sensitive hashing (LSH) is a powerful tool for sublinear-time approximate nearest neighbor search, and a variety of hashing schemes have been proposed for different dissimilarity measures. However, hash codes significantly depend…

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows for computation directly on encrypted data and enables privacy-preserving neural inference in the cloud. Prior work has focused on models with dense inputs (e.g., CNNs), with less attention given to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Karthik Garimella , Austin Ebel , Gabrielle De Micheli , Brandon Reagen

Web application security has become a major concern in recent years, as more and more content and services are available online. A useful method for identifying security vulnerabilities is black-box testing, which relies on an automated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ilan Ben-Bassat , Erez Rokah

Spatiotemporal Local Binary Pattern (STLBP) is a widely used dynamic texture descriptor, but it suffers from extremely high dimensionality. To tackle this, STLBP features are often extracted on three orthogonal planes, which sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ruxin Ding , Jianfeng Ren , Heng Yu , Jiawei Li , Xudong Jiang

Minimal perfect hash functions provide space-efficient and collision-free hashing on static sets. Existing algorithms and implementations that build such functions have practical limitations on the number of input elements they can process,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Antoine Limasset , Guillaume Rizk , Rayan Chikhi , Pierre Peterlongo

Dense retrieval overcome the lexical gap and has shown great success in ad-hoc information retrieval (IR). Despite their success, dense retrievers are expensive to serve across practical use cases. For use cases requiring to search from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Nandan Thakur , Nils Reimers , Jimmy Lin

Similarity joins are important operations with a broad range of applications. In this paper, we study the problem of vector similarity join size estimation (VSJ). It is a generalization of the previously studied set similarity join size…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Hongrae Lee , Raymond T. Ng , Kyuseok Shim