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Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) on GPUs is gaining increasing popularity for modern retrieval and recommendation workloads that operate over massive high-dimensional vectors. Graph-based indexes deliver high recall and throughput…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) face an inherent challenge: their knowledge is confined to the data that they have been trained on. To overcome this issue, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) complements the static training-derived knowledge…

Modern retrieval systems increasingly require integrating approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) with complex attribute filtering to handle hybrid queries in applications such as recommendation systems and retrieval-augmented generation…

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Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is essential for various data-intensive applications, including recommendation systems, image retrieval, and machine learning. Scaling ANNS to handle billions of high-dimensional vectors on a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Qian Xu , Feng Zhang , Chengxi Li , Lei Cao , Zheng Chen , Jidong Zhai , Xiaoyong Du

Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a key technique in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enabling rapid identification of the most relevant high-dimensional embeddings from massive vector databases. Modern ANNS engines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Tianqi Zhang , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

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…

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…

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications increasingly rely on Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (FANNS) to combine semantic retrieval with metadata constraints. While algorithmic innovations for FANNS have been proposed,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Abylay Amanbayev , Brian Tsan , Tri Dang , Florin Rusu

Retrieving points based on proximity in a high-dimensional vector space is a crucial step in information retrieval applications. The approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) problem, which identifies the $k$ nearest neighbors for a query,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Magdalen Dobson Manohar , Taekseung Kim , Guy E. Blelloch

Graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) methods (e.g., HNSW) have become the de facto state of the art for their high precision and low latency. To scale beyond main memory, recent out-of-memory ANNS systems leverage SSDs to…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Weichen Zhao , Yuncheng Lu , Yao Tian , Hao Zhang , Jiehui Li , Minghao Zhao , Yakun Li , Weining Qian

ANNS for embedded vector representations of texts is commonly used in information retrieval, with two important information representations being sparse and dense vectors. While it has been shown that combining these representations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Haoyu Zhang , Jun Liu , Zhenhua Zhu , Shulin Zeng , Maojia Sheng , Tao Yang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental and critical component in many applications, including recommendation systems and large language model-based applications. With the advancement of multimodal neural models, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Meng Chen , Kai Zhang , Zhenying He , Yinan Jing , X. Sean Wang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) plays a critical role in applications such as search engines, recommender systems, and RAG for LLMs. Vector quantization (VQ), a crucial technique for ANNS, is commonly used to reduce space…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hui Li , Shiyuan Deng , Xiao Yan , Xiangyu Zhi , James Cheng

Filtered approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) restricts the search to data objects whose attributes satisfy a given filter and retrieves the top-$K$ objects that are most semantically similar to the query object. Many graph-based ANNS…

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Much recent work has been devoted to approximate nearest neighbor queries. Motivated by applications in recommender systems, we consider approximate furthest neighbor (AFN) queries and present a simple, fast, and highly practical data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Rasmus Pagh , Francesco Silvestri , Johan Sivertsen , Matthew Skala

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is now widely used in various applications, ranging from information retrieval, question answering, and recommendation, to search for similar high-dimensional vectors. As the amount of vector data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yuming Xu , Hengyu Liang , Jin Li , Shuotao Xu , Qi Chen , Qianxi Zhang , Cheng Li , Ziyue Yang , Fan Yang , Yuqing Yang , Peng Cheng , Mao Yang

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

Embedding-based vector search underpins many important applications, such as recommendation and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It relies on vector indices to enable efficient search. However, these indices require storing…

Web-scale search systems learn an encoder to embed a given query which is then hooked into an approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) pipeline to retrieve similar data points. To accurately capture tail queries and data points, learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Aniket Rege , Aditya Kusupati , Sharan Ranjit S , Alan Fan , Qingqing Cao , Sham Kakade , Prateek Jain , Ali Farhadi

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) has become a fundamental component in many real-world applications. Among various ANNS algorithms, graph-based methods are state-of-the-art. However, ANNS often suffers from a significant drop in…

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