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Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) query in high-dimensional Euclidean space is a key operator in database systems. For this query, quantization is a popular family of methods developed for compressing vectors and reducing memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jianyang Gao , Yutong Gou , Yuexuan Xu , Yongyi Yang , Cheng Long , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Augmenting neural machine translation with external memory at decoding time, in the form of k-nearest neighbors machine translation ($k$-NN MT), is a well-established strategy for increasing translation performance. $k$-NN MT retrieves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Evgeniia Tokarchuk , Sergey Troshin , Vlad Niculae

Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) is a central task in knowledge representation, learning, and reasoning. There is vast literature on efficient algorithms for constructing data structures and performing exact and approximate NNS. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-10 Blake Mason , Ardhendu Tripathy , Robert Nowak

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANN) is a common way to retrieve relevant search results, especially now in the context of large language models and retrieval augmented generation. One of the most widely used algorithms for ANN is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nina Mishra , Yonatan Naamad , Tal Wagner , Lichen Zhang

Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique in which data or objects are grouped into sets based on some similarity measure. Most of the clustering algorithms assume that the main memory is infinite and can accommodate the set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Pankaj Kumar Yadav , Sriniwas Pandey , Sraban Kumar Mohanty

Integrating the principles of approximate computing into the design of hardware-aware deep neural networks (DNN) has led to DNNs implementations showing good output quality and highly optimized hardware parameters such as low latency or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Michal Pinos , Lukas Sekanina , Vojtech Mrazek

In-memory graph-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search has superior search performance but incurs significant memory footprint. Disk-based methods reduce memory usage but suffer from high disk access latency. A common challenge is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziwen Song , Bin Wang , Xiaochun Yang , Junhua Zhang

Efficient Nearest Neighbor (NN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a foundation of many multimedia retrieval systems. Because it offers low responses times, Product Quantization (PQ) is a popular solution. PQ compresses high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Fabien André , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) presents an inherent tradeoff between performance and recall (i.e., result quality). Each ANNS algorithm provides its own algorithm-dependent parameters to allow applications to influence the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Manos Chatzakis , Yannis Papakonstantinou , Themis Palpanas

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

Introduction. Neural network models of autoassociative, distributed memory allow storage and retrieval of many items (vectors) where the number of stored items can exceed the vector dimension (the number of neurons in the network). This…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 V. I. Gritsenko , D. A. Rachkovskij , A. A. Frolov , R. Gayler , D. Kleyko , E. Osipov

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nam Anh Dang , Ben Landrum , Ken Birman

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) underpins many large-scale data mining and machine learning applications, with efficient retrieval increasingly hinging on GPU acceleration as dataset sizes grow. Although graph-based approaches…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yaowen Liu , Xuejia Chen , Anxin Tian , Haoyang Li , Qinbin Li , Xin Zhang , Alexander Zhou , Chen Jason Zhang , Qing Li , Lei Chen

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

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have gained extensive attention for their superior inferencing efficiency and compression ratio compared to traditional full-precision networks. However, due to the unique characteristics of BNNs, designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhihao Lin , Yongtao Wang , Jinhe Zhang , Xiaojie Chu , Haibin Ling

Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search and Approximate Kernel Density Estimation (A-KDE) are fundamental problems at the core of modern machine learning, with broad applications in data analysis, information systems, and large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ved Danait , Srijan Das , Sujoy Bhore

A significantly faster algorithm is presented for the original kNN mode seeking procedure. It has the advantages over the well-known mean shift algorithm that it is feasible in high-dimensional vector spaces and results in uniquely, well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-21 Robert P. W. Duin , Sergey Verzakov

Locality Sensitive Filters are known for offering a quasi-linear space data structure with rigorous guarantees for the Approximate Near Neighbor search (ANN) problem. Building on Locality Sensitive Filters, we derive a simple data structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Martin Aumüller , Fabrizio Boninsegna , Francesco Silvestri

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

Vector search underpins modern AI applications by supporting approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) queries over high-dimensional embeddings in tasks like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), recommendation systems, and multimodal search.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shurui Zhong , Dingheng Mo , Siqiang Luo