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Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a core primitive in modern AI systems, and graph-based methods currently offer the best accuracy-efficiency trade-off at scale. The workload is fundamentally memory-bound: graph traversal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sitian Chen , Yusen Li , Yao Chen , Minwen Deng , Jintao Meng , Amelie Chi Zhou

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has become vital to modern AI infrastructure, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. Numerous in-browser ANNS engines have emerged to seamlessly integrate with popular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Mugeng Liu , Siqi Zhong , Qi Yang , Yudong Han , Xuanzhe Liu , Yun Ma

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) has become a fundamental component in many real-world applications. Among various ANNS algorithms, graph-based methods are state-of-the-art. However, ANNS often suffers from a significant drop in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhiyuan Hua , Qiji Mo , Zebin Yao , Lixiao Cui , Xiaoguang Liu , Gang Wang , Zijing Wei , Xinyu Liu , Tianxiao Tang , Shaozhi Liu , Lin Qu

A $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$NN) query determines the $k$ nearest points, using distance metrics, from a specific location. An all $k$-nearest neighbor (A$k$NN) query constitutes a variation of a $k$NN query and retrieves the $k$ nearest…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Nikolaos Nodarakis , Spyros Sioutas , Dimitrios Tsoumakos , Giannis Tzimas , Evaggelia Pitoura

Modern retrieval systems increasingly require integrating approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) with complex attribute filtering to handle hybrid queries in applications such as recommendation systems and retrieval-augmented generation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junjie Song , Yu Liu , Guoyu Hu , Zhongle Xie , Ming Yang , Beng Chin Ooi , Ke Zhou

As we advance in the fast-growing era of Machine Learning, various new and more complex neural architectures are arising to tackle problem more efficiently. On the one hand their efficient usage requires advanced knowledge and expertise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Léo Pouy , Fouad Khenfri , Patrick Leserf , Chokri Mraidha , Cherif Larouci

Most conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approaches are limited in that they only generate architectures without searching for the optimal parameters. While some NAS methods handle this issue by utilizing a supernet trained on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Wonyong Jeong , Hayeon Lee , Gun Park , Eunyoung Hyung , Jinheon Baek , Sung Ju Hwang

This paper addresses the problem of Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search in pattern recognition where feature vectors in a database are encoded as compact codes in order to speed-up the similarity search in large-scale databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Sohrab Ferdowsi , Slava Voloshynovskiy , Dimche Kostadinov , Taras Holotyak

The reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) query is an established query type with various applications reaching from identifying highly influential objects over incrementally updating kNN graphs to optimizing sensor communication and outlier…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Sandra Obermeier , Max Berrendorf , Peer Kröger

We show that using nearest neighbours in the latent space of autoencoders (AE) significantly improves performance of semi-supervised novelty detection in both single and multi-class contexts. Autoencoding methods detect novelty by learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Michael Mesarcik , Elena Ranguelova , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based neural architecture search (NAS) generally guarantees better convergence yet suffers from the requirement of huge computational resources compared with gradient-based approaches, due to the rollout…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jihao Liu , Ming Zhang , Yangting Sun , Boxiao Liu , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

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

Vector search systems, pivotal in AI applications, often rely on the Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) algorithm. However, the behaviour of HNSW under real-world scenarios using vectors generated with deep learning models remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Owen Pendrigh Elliott , Jesse Clark

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 k-Nearest Neighbor (AKNN) search is widely used in vector databases. When vectors carry additional attributes (e.g., labels or numerical values), filtered AKNN search retrieves the nearest vectors to a query vector under…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Wenxuan Xia , Mingyu Yang , Wentao Li , Wei Wang

$K$-NN classifier is one of the most famous classification algorithms, whose performance is crucially dependent on the distance metric. When we consider the distance metric as a parameter of $K$-NN, learning an appropriate distance metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kun Song

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is essential for applications like recommendation systems and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) but is highly I/O-intensive and memory-demanding. CPUs face I/O bottlenecks, while GPUs are…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Mingkai Chen , Tianhua Han , Cheng Liu , Shengwen Liang , Kuai Yu , Lei Dai , Ziming Yuan , Ying Wang , Lei Zhang , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has emerged as a crucial component of database and AI infrastructure. Ever-increasing vector datasets pose significant challenges in terms of performance, cost, and accuracy for ANNS services. None…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Bing Tian , Haikun Liu , Yuhang Tang , Shihai Xiao , Zhuohui Duan , Xiaofei Liao , Xuecang Zhang , Junhua Zhu , Yu Zhang

We present efficient data structures for approximate nearest neighbor searching and approximate 2-point shortest path queries in a two-dimensional polygonal domain $P$ with $n$ vertices. Our goal is to store a dynamic set of $m$ point sites…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Joost van der Laan , Frank Staals , Lorenzo Theunissen

The top-performing systems for billion-scale high-dimensional approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search are all based on two-layer architectures that include an indexing structure and a compressed datapoints layer. An indexing structure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Artem Babenko , Victor Lempitsky