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We present a scalable approach for range and $k$ nearest neighbor queries under computationally expensive metrics, like the continuous Fr\'echet distance on trajectory data. Based on clustering for metric indexes, we obtain a dynamic tree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , John Pfeifer , Martin P. Seybold

It is common to encounter situations where one must solve a sequence of similar computational problems. Running a standard algorithm with worst-case runtime guarantees on each instance will fail to take advantage of valuable structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Daniel Alabi , Adam Tauman Kalai , Katrina Ligett , Cameron Musco , Christos Tzamos , Ellen Vitercik

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

We consider a routing problem which plays an important role in several applications, primarily in communication network planning and VLSI layout design. The original underlying graph algorithmic task is called Disjoint Paths problem. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Rupei Xu , András Faragó

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a cornerstone algorithm for information retrieval, recommendation systems, and machine learning applications. While x86-based architectures have historically dominated this domain, the…

Hierarchical graph-based algorithms such as HNSW have achieved state-of-the-art performance for Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search in practice, yet they often lack theoretical guarantees on query time or recall due to their heavy use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mohsen Dehghankar , Abolfazl Asudeh

Approximate Nearest Neighbour (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in information retrieval, underpinning large-scale applications in computer vision, natural language processing, and cross-modal search. Hashing-based methods provide an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sean Moran

High-performance implementations of $k$-Nearest Neighbor Search ($k$NN) in low dimensions use tree-based data structures. Tree algorithms are hard to parallelize on GPUs due to their irregularity. However, newer Nvidia GPUs offer hardware…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Durga Mandarapu , Vani Nagarajan , Artem Pelenitsyn , Milind Kulkarni

Range-filtered approximate nearest neighbor (RFANN) search is a fundamental operation in modern data systems. Given a set of objects, each with a vector and a numerical attribute, an RFANN query retrieves the nearest neighbors to a query…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiqiu Zou , Ziqi Yin , Rong-Hua Li , Hongchao Qin , Qiangqiang Dai , Guoren Wang

This paper describes an implementation of fast near-neighbours queries (also known as range searching) with respect to the Fr\'echet distance. The algorithm is designed to be efficient on practical data such as GPS trajectories. Our…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Julian Baldus , Karl Bringmann

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as a promising approach to tackling power allocation problems in wireless networks. Since unpaired transmitters and receivers are often spatially distant, the distance-based threshold is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lili Chen , Jingge Zhu , Jamie Evans

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional Euclidean space has a broad range of applications. Among existing ANN algorithms, graph-based methods have shown superior performance in terms of the time-accuracy trade-off.…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yutong Gou , Jianyang Gao , Yuexuan Xu , Cheng Long

In this paper, we study the problem of graph similarity search with graph edit distance (GED) constraints. Due to the NP-hardness of GED computation, existing solutions to this problem adopt the filtering-and-verification framework with a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Jongik Kim

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

K-nearest neighbor search is one of the fundamental tasks in various applications and the hierarchical navigable small world (HNSW) has recently drawn attention in large-scale cloud services, as it easily scales up the database while…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeo-Reum Park , Jaeyoung Do , Soo-Young Ji , Joo-Young Kim

We focus on Maximum Inner Product Search (MIPS), which is an essential problem in many machine learning communities. Given a query, MIPS finds the most similar items with the maximum inner products. Methods for Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Chao Feng , Defu Lian , Xiting Wang , Zheng liu , Xing Xie , Enhong Chen

Clustering-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) organizes a set of points into partitions, and searches only a few of them to find the nearest neighbors of a query. Despite its popularity, there are virtually no analytical tools…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Thomas Vecchiato , Sebastian Bruch

Given a collection of points in R^3, KD-Tree and R-Tree are well-known nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithms that rely on space partitioning and spatial indexing techniques. However, when the query point is far from the data points or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Pengfei Wang , Jiantao Song , Shiqing Xin , Shuangmin Chen , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang , Jiaye Wang

The fastest indexes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search today are also the slowest to build: graph-based methods like HNSW and Vamana achieve state-of-the-art query performance but have large construction times due to relying on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tobias Rubel , Richard Wen , Laxman Dhulipala , Lars Gottesbüren , Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Łącki

Approximate subgraph matching (ASM) is a task that determines the approximate presence of a given query graph in a large target graph. Being an NP-hard problem, ASM is critical in graph analysis with a myriad of applications ranging from…

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