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The $k$-Nearest Neighbor Search ($k$-NNS) is the backbone of several cloud-based services such as recommender systems, face recognition, and database search on text and images. In these services, the client sends the query to the cloud…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hao Chen , Ilaria Chillotti , Yihe Dong , Oxana Poburinnaya , Ilya Razenshteyn , M. Sadegh Riazi

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

In this article, we propose a new fast nearest neighbor search algorithm, based on vector quantization. Like many other branch and bound search algorithms [1,10], a preprocessing recursively partitions the data set into disjointed subsets…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-26 Sylvain Corlay

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

In this article, we introduce a novel algorithm for efficient near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging for irregular scanning geometries. With the emergence of fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices, near-field SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Josiah Smith , Murat Torlak

Nearest neighbor (NN) algorithms have been extensively used for missing data problems in recommender systems and sequential decision-making systems. Prior theoretical analysis has established favorable guarantees for NN when the underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Tathagata Sadhukhan , Manit Paul , Raaz Dwivedi

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

The complexity of nearest-neighbor search dominates the asymptotic running time of many sampling-based motion-planning algorithms. However, collision detection is often considered to be the computational bottleneck in practice. Examining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Michal Kleinbort , Oren Salzman , Dan Halperin

Meeting real-time constraints for high-performance Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search remains a critical challenge in remote sensing edge devices, which are essentially fusion systems like micro-satellites and UAVs, largely due to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Xianwei Lv , Debin Tang , Zhecheng Shi , Wang Wang , Yujiao Zheng , Xiatian Zhu

$K$-NN classifier is one of the most famous classification algorithms, whose performance is crucially dependent on the distance metric. When we consider the distance metric as a parameter of $K$-NN, learning an appropriate distance metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kun Song

Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search retrieves the closest vectors for a query vector from a dataset. It enforces that a specified set of discrete labels $S$ for the query must be included in the labels of each retrieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ananya Sutradhar , Suryansh Gupta , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Haiyang Xu , Aseem Rastogi , Gopal Srinivasa

This paper proposes a soft range limited K nearest neighbours (SRL-KNN) localization fingerprinting algorithm. The conventional KNN determines the neighbours of a user by calculating and ranking the fingerprint distance measured at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Minh Tu Hoang , Yizhou Zhu , Brosnan Yuen , Tyler Reese , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Robert Westendorp , Michael Xie

In the machine learning field, dimensionality reduction is an important task. It mitigates the undesired properties of high-dimensional spaces to facilitate classification, compression, and visualization of high-dimensional data. During the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Mohammed Elhenawy , Mahmoud Masoud , Sebastian Glaser , Andry Rakotonirainy

Large-scale approximate nearest neighbor search (ANN) has been gaining attention along with the latest machine learning researches employing ANNs. If the data is too large to fit in memory, it is necessary to search for the most similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Taiga Ikeda , Daisuke Miyashita , Jun Deguchi

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high dimensional space is essential in database and information retrieval. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in exploring efficient graph-based indices for the ANNS problem. Among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Cong Fu , Changxu Wang , Deng Cai

In this paper, we propose an ensemble learning algorithm called \textit{under-bagging $k$-nearest neighbors} (\textit{under-bagging $k$-NN}) for imbalanced classification problems. On the theoretical side, by developing a new learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-03 Hanyuan Hang , Yuchao Cai , Hanfang Yang , Zhouchen Lin

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANN) data structures have widespread applications in machine learning, computational biology, and text processing. The goal of ANN is to preprocess a set S so that, given a query q, we can find a point y…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Samuel McCauley

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a fundamental problem in vector databases and AI infrastructures. Recent graph-based ANNS algorithms have achieved high search accuracy with practical efficiency. Despite the advancements, these…

The $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) algorithm is one of the most popular methods for nonparametric classification. However, a relevant limitation concerns the definition of the number of neighbors $k$. This parameter exerts a direct impact on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Alexandre Luís Magalhães Levada , Frank Nielsen , Michel Ferreira Cardia Haddad

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has emerged as a crucial component of database and AI infrastructure. Ever-increasing vector datasets pose significant challenges in terms of performance, cost, and accuracy for ANNS services. None…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Bing Tian , Haikun Liu , Yuhang Tang , Shihai Xiao , Zhuohui Duan , Xiaofei Liao , Xuecang Zhang , Junhua Zhu , Yu Zhang