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Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Vector data is prevalent across business and scientific applications, and its popularity is growing with the proliferation of learned embeddings. Vector data collections often reach billions of vectors with thousands of dimensions, thus,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ilias Azizi , Karima Echihabi , Themis Palpanas

Approximate nearest-neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms are a key part of the modern deep learning stack due to enabling efficient similarity search over high-dimensional vector space representations (i.e., embeddings) of data. Among various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Magdalen Dobson Manohar , Zheqi Shen , Guy E. Blelloch , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri , Yihan Sun

Shortest path search is a core operation in graph-based applications, yet existing methods face important limitations. Classical algorithms such as Dijkstra's and A* become inefficient as graphs grow more complex, while index-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tiantian Liu , Xiao Li , Huan Li , Hua Lu , Christian S. Jensen , Jianliang Xu

Recently, real-world recommendation systems need to deal with millions of candidates. It is extremely challenging to conduct sophisticated end-to-end algorithms on the entire corpus due to the tremendous computation costs. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ruobing Xie , Qi Liu , Shukai Liu , Ziwei Zhang , Peng Cui , Bo Zhang , Leyu Lin

Graphs provide a natural way to represent data by encoding information about objects and the relationships between them. With the ever-increasing amount of data collected and generated, locating specific patterns of relationships between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tatyana Benko , Rebecca Jones , Lucas Tate

Finding a maximum clique in a given graph is one of the fundamental NP-hard problems. We compare two multi-core thread-parallel adaptations of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem, and provide a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

Recently, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in high-dimensional vector spaces has garnered considerable attention due to the rapid advancement of deep learning techniques. We observed that a substantial amount of search and construction…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiaoyao Zhong , Jiabao Jin , Peng Cheng , Mingyu Yang , Haoyang Li , Zhitao Shen , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Graphs and their traversal is becoming significant as it is applicable to various areas of mathematics, science and technology. Various problems in fields as varied as biochemistry (genomics), electrical engineering (communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Anuj Sharma , Syed Mohammed Arshad Zaidi

Many real-world networks can be modeled as graphs. Finding dense subgraphs is a key problem in graph mining with applications in diverse domains. In this paper, we consider two variants of the densest subgraph problem where multiple graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chamalee Wickrama Arachchi , Nikolaj Tatti

We present a new approach to approximate nearest-neighbor queries in fixed dimension under a variety of non-Euclidean distances. We are given a set $S$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, an approximation parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ahmed Abdelkader , Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

In this paper we propose an online approximate k-nn graph building algorithm, which is able to quickly update a k-nn graph using a flow of data points. One very important step of the algorithm consists in using the current distributed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Thibault Debatty , Pietro Michiardi , Wim Mees

Large scale-free graphs are famously difficult to process efficiently: the skewed vertex degree distribution makes it difficult to obtain balanced partitioning. Our research instead aims to turn this into an advantage by partitioning the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Scott Sallinen , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu

Graph neural networks (GNN) has been successfully applied to operate on the graph-structured data. Given a specific scenario, rich human expertise and tremendous laborious trials are usually required to identify a suitable GNN architecture.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixiong Zhou , Qingquan Song , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

Given a dataset of points in a metric space and an integer $k$, a diversity maximization problem requires determining a subset of $k$ points maximizing some diversity objective measure, e.g., the minimum or the average distance between two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces is a pivotal challenge in the field of machine learning. In recent years, graph-based methods have emerged as the superior approach to ANNS, establishing a new state of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Kejing Lu , Chuan Xiao , Yoshiharu Ishikawa

With the increasing number of new neural architecture designs and substantial existing neural architectures, it becomes difficult for the researchers to situate their contributions compared with existing neural architectures or establish…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiaohuan Pei , Yanxi Li , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

We consider the problem of learning the nearest neighbor graph of a dataset of n items. The metric is unknown, but we can query an oracle to obtain a noisy estimate of the distance between any pair of items. This framework applies to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-03 Blake Mason , Ardhendu Tripathy , Robert Nowak

This paper provides a new similarity detection algorithm. Given an input set of multi-dimensional data points, where each data point is assumed to be multi-dimensional, and an additional reference data point for similarity finding, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Yariv Aizenbud , Amir Averbuch , Gil Shabat , Guy Ziv

The dramatic success of deep neural networks across multiple application areas often relies on experts painstakingly designing a network architecture specific to each task. To simplify this process and make it more accessible, an emerging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Kamil Bennani-Smires , Claudiu Musat , Andreea Hossmann , Michael Baeriswyl