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Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental operation in vector databases, enabling efficient similarity search in high-dimensional spaces. While dense ANNS has been optimized using specialized hardware accelerators, sparse…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tianqi Zhang , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

The evolutionary paradigm has been successfully applied to neural network search(NAS) in recent years. Due to the vast search complexity of the global space, current research mainly seeks to repeatedly stack partial architectures to build…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Juan Zou , Weiwei Jiang , Yizhang Xia , Yuan Liu , Zhanglu Hou

Multimodal vector search offers a new paradigm for information retrieval by exposing numerous pieces of functionality which are not possible in traditional lexical search engines. While multimodal vector search can be treated as a drop in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Owen Pendrigh Elliott , Tom Hamer , Jesse Clark

Search personalization aims to tailor search results to each specific user based on the user's personal interests and preferences (i.e., the user profile). Recent research approaches to search personalization by modelling the potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Thanh Vu , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Phung

The Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation is a critical factor that directly impacts the 3D object detection performance, but the traditional BEV grid representation induces quadratic computational cost as the spatial resolution grows. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhili Chen , Shuangjie Xu , Maosheng Ye , Zian Qian , Xiaoyi Zou , Dit-Yan Yeung , Qifeng Chen

The vector cost bimatrix game is a method for multi-objective decision making that enables autonomous robotic systems to optimize for multiple goals at once while avoiding worst-case scenarios in neglected objectives. We expand this…

The fruit fly Drosophila's olfactory circuit has inspired a new locality sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm, FlyHash. In contrast with classical LSH algorithms that produce low dimensional hash codes, FlyHash produces sparse high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Chaitanya K. Ryali , John J. Hopfield , Leopold Grinberg , Dmitry Krotov

Vision transformers (ViTs) inherited the success of NLP but their structures have not been sufficiently investigated and optimized for visual tasks. One of the simplest solutions is to directly search the optimal one via the widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xiu Su , Shan You , Jiyang Xie , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

The integration of biological principles into artificial olfactory systems has led to significant advancements in odor detection and classification. Inspired by the intricate mechanisms of natural olfaction, researchers are developing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-13 Ravirajan K , Arvind Sundararajan

Neural network architecture design mostly focuses on the new convolutional operator or special topological structure of network block, little attention is drawn to the configuration of stacking each block, called Block Stacking Style (BSS).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yikang Zhang , Jian Zhang , Zhao Zhong

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

Visual query systems (VQSs) empower users to interactively search for line charts with desired visual patterns, typically specified using intuitive sketch-based interfaces. Despite decades of past work on VQSs, these efforts have not…

We present a novel machine learning architecture for classification suggested by experiments on olfactory systems. The network separates input stimuli, represented as spatially distinct currents, via winnerless competition---a process based…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Jason A. Platt , Anna Miller , Lawson Fuller , Henry D. I. Abarbanel

Our objective is language-based search of large-scale image and video datasets. For this task, the approach that consists of independently mapping text and vision to a joint embedding space, a.k.a. dual encoders, is attractive as retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Antoine Miech , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Andrew Zisserman

Real-world vector embeddings are usually associated with extra labels, such as attributes and keywords. Many applications require the nearest neighbor search that contains specific labels, such as searching for product image embeddings…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Mingyu Yang , Wenxuan Xia , Wentao Li , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Wei Wang

The olfactory system employs responses of an ensemble of odorant receptors (ORs) to sense molecules and to generate olfactory percepts. Here we hypothesized that ORs can be viewed as 3D spatial filters that extract molecular features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Sergey Shuvaev , Khue Tran , Khristina Samoilova , Cyrille Mascart , Alexei Koulakov

We propose a new approach to value-directed belief state approximation for POMDPs. The value-directed model allows one to choose approximation methods for belief state monitoring that have a small impact on decision quality. Using a vector…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Pascal Poupart , Craig Boutilier

This paper introduces a new semantic search algorithm that uses Word2Vec and Annoy Index to improve the efficiency of information retrieval from large datasets. The proposed approach addresses the limitations of traditional search methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Aryan Duhan , Aryan Singhal , Shourya Sharma , Neeraj , Arti MK

Biologically inspired neural networks offer alternative avenues to model data distributions. FlyVec is a recent example that draws inspiration from the fruit fly's olfactory circuit to tackle the task of learning word embeddings.…

With the continuous popularity of deep learning and representation learning, fast vector search becomes a vital task in various ranking/retrieval based applications, say recommendation, ads ranking and question answering. Neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Weijie Zhao , Shulong Tan , Ping Li