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Sparse embeddings of data form an attractive class due to their inherent interpretability: Every dimension is tied to a term in some vocabulary, making it easy to visually decipher the latent space. Sparsity, however, poses unique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sebastian Bruch , Franco Maria Nardini , Cosimo Rulli , Rossano Venturini

We present the first systematic investigation of graph reordering effects for graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) on a GPU. While graph-based ANNS has become the dominant paradigm for modern AI applications, recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yutaro Oguri , Mai Nishimura , Yusuke Matsui

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

The in-memory approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms have achieved great success for fast high-recall query processing, but are extremely inefficient when handling hybrid queries with unstructured (i.e., feature vectors) and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wei Wu , Junlin He , Yu Qiao , Guoheng Fu , Li Liu , Jin Yu

Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search (ANNS) is a subroutine in algorithms routinely employed in information retrieval, pattern recognition, data mining, image processing, and beyond. Recent works have established that graph-based ANNS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Karthik V. , Saim Khan , Somesh Singh , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri , Jyothi Vedurada

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has become vital to modern AI infrastructure, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. Numerous in-browser ANNS engines have emerged to seamlessly integrate with popular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Mugeng Liu , Siqi Zhong , Qi Yang , Yudong Han , Xuanzhe Liu , Yun Ma

Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) is a fundamental problem in data structures with wide-ranging applications, such as web search, recommendation systems, and, more recently, retrieval-augmented generations (RAG). In such recent applications, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siddharth Barman , Nirjhar Das , Shivam Gupta , Kirankumar Shiragur

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

The Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) problem asks to design a data structure that preprocesses an $n$-point dataset $X$ lying in a metric space $\mathcal{M}$, so that given a query point $q \in \mathcal{M}$, one can quickly return a point of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Robert Krauthgamer , Nir Petruschka

Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) has recently drawn a rapid increase of interest due to its core role in managing high-dimensional vector data in data science and AI applications. The interest is fueled by the success of neural embedding,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhen Peng , Minjia Zhang , Kai Li , Ruoming Jin , Bin Ren

This paper presents an efficient and scalable framework for Range Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search (RF-ANNS) over high-dimensional vectors associated with attribute values. Given a query vector $q$ and a range $[l, h]$, RF-ANNS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Anqi Liang , Pengcheng Zhang , Bin Yao , Zhongpu Chen , Yitong Song , Guangxu Cheng

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional space is an essential operator in many online services, such as information retrieval and recommendation. Indices constructed by the state-of-the-art ANNS algorithms must be…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Kun Yu , Jiabao Jin , Xiaoyao Zhong , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen , Zhitao Shen , Jingkuan Song , Hengtao Shen , Xuemin Lin

The approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem is fundamental to efficiently serving many real-world machine learning applications. A number of techniques have been developed for ANN search that are efficient, accurate, and scalable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Philip Sun , Ruiqi Guo , Sanjiv Kumar

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

Neighbor search is a computationally demanding problem, usually both time- and memory-consuming. The main problem of this kind of algorithms is the long execution time due to cache misses. In this work, we propose a quantum algorithm for…

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a fundamental problem in databases and data mining. A scalable ANNS algorithm should be both memory-efficient and fast. Some early graph-based approaches have shown attractive theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Cong Fu , Chao Xiang , Changxu Wang , Deng Cai

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

Approximate Nearest Neighbor search is one of the keys to high-scale data retrieval performance in many applications. The work is a bridge between feature extraction and ANN indexing through fine-tuning a ResNet50 model with various ANN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 MD Shaikh Rahman , Syed Maudud E Rabbi , Muhammad Mahbubur Rashid

Nearest neighbor search is a fundamental data structure problem with many applications in machine learning, computer vision, recommendation systems and other fields. Although the main objective of the data structure is to quickly report…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Piyush Anand , Piotr Indyk , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Sepideh Mahabadi , Vikas C. Raykar , Kirankumar Shiragur , Haike Xu

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS), as the core of vector databases (VectorDBs), has become widely used in modern AI and ML systems, powering applications from information retrieval to bio-informatics. While graph-based ANNS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dingyi Kang , Dongming Jiang , Hanshen Yang , Hang Liu , Bingzhe Li