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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

We present a new approach for efficient approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensional spaces, extending the idea of Product Quantization. We propose a two-level product and vector quantization tree that reduces the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Patrick Wieschollek , Oliver Wang , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

We present a novel hashing strategy for approximate furthest neighbor search that selects projection bases using the data distribution. This strategy leads to an algorithm, which we call DrusillaHash, that is able to outperform existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Ryan R. Curtin , Andrew B. Gardner

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are highly flexible predictive models. However, reliably quantifying uncertainty for their predictions is a continuing challenge. There has been much recent work on "recalibration" of predictive…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-12 R. Torres , D. J. Nott , S. A. Sisson , T. Rodrigues , J. G. Reis , G. S. Rodrigues

Research on nearest-neighbor methods tends to focus somewhat dichotomously either on the statistical or the computational aspects -- either on, say, Bayes consistency and rates of convergence or on techniques for speeding up the proximity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Klim Efremenko , Aryeh Kontorovich , Moshe Noivirt

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

Near neighbor problems are fundamental in algorithms for high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. While classical approaches suffer from the curse of dimensionality, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) can effectively solve a-approximate r-near…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang

Approximate nearest neighbor search under universal L_p metrics (ANNS-U-L_p) is an important and challenging research problem, as it requires answering queries under all possible p (0<p <= 2) values simultaneously without building an index…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Huayi Wang , Jingfan Meng , Jun Xu

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

The problem of finding K-nearest neighbors in the given dataset for a given query point has been worked upon since several years. In very high dimensional spaces the K-nearest neighbor search (KNNS) suffers in terms of complexity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pramod Vadiraja , Christoph Peter Balada

Dense Associative Memory (DAM) generalizes Hopfield networks through higher-order interactions and achieves storage capacity that scales as $O(N^{n-1})$ under suitable pattern separation conditions. Existing dynamical analyses primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Madhava Gaikwad

Amidst an increasing number of infected cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is essential to trace, as early as possible, the susceptible people who might have been infected by the disease due to their close proximity with people who were…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Chandan Biswas , Debasis Ganguly , Ujjwal Bhattacharya

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in computer vision, however they are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are inputs that have been carefully perturbed to fool classifier networks, while appearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Rachel Sterneck , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH), introduced by Indyk and Motwani in STOC '98, has been an extremely influential framework for nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data sets. While theoretical work has focused on the approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Tobias Christiani , Rasmus Pagh , Mikkel Thorup

Algorithms often carry out equally many computations for "easy" and "hard" problem instances. In particular, algorithms for finding nearest neighbors typically have the same running time regardless of the particular problem instance. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Daniel LeJeune , Richard G. Baraniuk , Reinhard Heckel

Similarity graphs are an active research direction for the nearest neighbor search (NNS) problem. New algorithms for similarity graph construction are continuously being proposed and analyzed by both theoreticians and practitioners.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Dmitry Baranchuk , Artem Babenko

In this article we propose a new deep learning approach to approximate operators related to parametric partial differential equations (PDEs). In particular, we introduce a new strategy to design specific artificial neural network (ANN)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Arnulf Jentzen , Adrian Riekert , Philippe von Wurstemberger

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) has emerged as the dominant algorithmic technique for similarity search with strong performance guarantees in high-dimensional spaces. A drawback of traditional LSH schemes is that they may have \emph{false…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ninh Pham , Rasmus Pagh

Motivated by Johnson--Lindenstrauss dimension reduction, amplitude encoding, and the view of measurements as hash-like primitives, one might hope to compress an $n$-point approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) data structure into $O(\log n)$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Sajjad Hashemian

Approximate K Nearest Neighbor (AKNN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a critical yet challenging problem. In AKNN search, distance computation is the core task that dominates the runtime. Existing approaches typically use approximate…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mingyu Yang , Wentao Li , Jiabao Jin , Xiaoyao Zhong , Xiangyu Wang , Zhitao Shen , Wei Jia , Wei Wang