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With the surging popularity of approximate near-neighbor search (ANNS), driven by advances in neural representation learning, the ability to serve queries accompanied by a set of constraints has become an area of intense interest. While the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Gaurav Gupta , Jonah Yi , Benjamin Coleman , Chen Luo , Vihan Lakshman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in many areas of data mining, machine learning and computer vision. The performance of traditional hierarchical structure (tree) based methods decreases as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Cong Fu , Deng Cai

Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is widely adopted in numerous applications, such as recommendation systems, natural language processing, and computer vision. While recent works on GPU-based acceleration have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sukjin Kim , Seongyeon Park , Si Ung Noh , Junguk Hong , Taehee Kwon , Hunseong Lim , Jinho Lee

We study the Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) problem under a powerful adaptive adversary that controls both the dataset and a sequence of $Q$ queries. Primarily, for the high-dimensional regime of $d = \omega(\sqrt{Q})$, we introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Alexandr Andoni , Themistoklis Haris , Esty Kelman , Krzysztof Onak

In the era of cloud computing and AI, data owners outsource ubiquitous vectors to the cloud, which furnish approximate $k$-nearest neighbors ($k$-ANNS) services to users. To protect data privacy against the untrusted server,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yingfan Liu , Yandi Zhang , Jiadong Xie , Hui Li , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Jiangtao Cui

Neural Architectures Search (NAS) becomes more and more popular over these years. However, NAS-generated models tends to suffer greater vulnerability to various malicious attacks. Lots of robust NAS methods leverage adversarial training to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) has become fundamental to modern deep learning applications, having gained particular prominence through its integration into recent generative models that work with increasingly complex datasets…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuntao Gui , Peiqi Yin , Xiao Yan , Chaorui Zhang , Weixi Zhang , James Cheng

Vector search has emerged as the foundation for large-scale information retrieval and machine learning systems, with search engines like Google and Bing processing tens of thousands of queries per second on petabyte-scale document datasets…

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces is a fundamental problem with broad applications. Subspace Collision is a newly proposed ANNS framework that provides a novel paradigm for similarity search and…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiuqi Wei , Zhenyu Liao , Ruoyu Han , Quanqing Xu , Chuanhui Yang , Themis Palpanas

Filtered approximate nearest neighbor search (FANNS), an extension of approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) that incorporates scalar filters, has been widely applied to constrained retrieval of vector data. Despite its growing…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yanjun Lin , Kai Zhang , Zhenying He , Yinan Jing , X. Sean Wang

Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a crucial problem in information retrieval and AI applications. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in graph-based ANNS algorithms due to their superior efficiency and accuracy.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenxin Li , Shuibing He , Jiahao Guo , Xuechen Zhang , Xian-He Sun , Gang Chen

Despite the remarkable successes of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision, it is time-consuming and error-prone to manually design a CNN. Among various Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods that are motivated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Hao Tan , Ran Cheng , Shihua Huang , Cheng He , Changxiao Qiu , Fan Yang , Ping Luo

Approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search has become a central task in modern data-intensive applications, particularly when operating on large, heterogeneous, or high-dimensional datasets. However, many existing ANN methods struggle in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Elena Garcia-Morato , Maria Jesus Algar , Cesar Alfaro , Felipe Ortega , Javier Gomez , Javier M. Moguerza

Near neighbor search (NNS) is a powerful abstraction for data access; however, data indexing is troublesome even for approximate indexes. For intrinsically high-dimensional data, high-quality fast searches demand either indexes with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Eric S. Tellez , Guillermo Ruiz , Edgar Chavez , Mario Graff

Given a vector dataset $\mathcal{X}$ and a query vector $\vec{x}_q$, graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) aims to build a graph index $G$ and approximately return vectors with minimum distances to $\vec{x}_q$ by searching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jiongkang Ni , Xiaoliang Xu , Yuxiang Wang , Can Li , Jiajie Yao , Shihai Xiao , Xuecang Zhang

Vector search, the task of finding the k-nearest neighbors of a query vector against a database of high-dimensional vectors, underpins many machine learning applications, including retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation systems, and…

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) underpins modern applications such as information retrieval and recommendation. With the rapid growth of vector data, efficient indexing for real-time vector search has become rudimentary. Existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yuchen Peng , Dingyu Yang , Zhongle Xie , Ji Sun , Lidan Shou , Ke Chen , Gang Chen

Vector approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) underpins search engines, recommendation systems, and advertising services. Recent advances in ANNS indexes make CPU a cost-effective choice for serving million-scale, in-memory vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuchen Huang , Baiteng Ma , Yiping Sun , Yang Shi , Xiao Chen , Xiaocheng Zhong , Zhiyong Wang , Yao Hu , Chuliang Weng

Indices for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) are a basic component for information retrieval and widely used in database, search, recommendation and RAG systems. In these scenarios, documents or other objects are inserted into and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Haike Xu , Magdalen Dobson Manohar , Philip A. Bernstein , Badrish Chandramouli , Richard Wen , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri