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Graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms work effectively against large-scale vector retrieval. Among such methods, DiskANN achieves good recall-speed tradeoffs using both DRAM and storage. DiskANN adopts product…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Kento Tatsuno , Daisuke Miyashita , Taiga Ikeda , Kiyoshi Ishiyama , Kazunari Sumiyoshi , Jun Deguchi

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…

Fast k-Nearest Neighbor search over real-valued vector spaces (KNN) is an important algorithmic task for information retrieval and recommendation systems. We present a method for using reduced precision to represent vectors through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anthony Ko , Iman Keivanloo , Vihan Lakshman , Eric Schkufza

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental operation in vector databases, enabling efficient similarity search in high-dimensional spaces. While dense ANNS has been optimized using specialized hardware accelerators, sparse…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tianqi Zhang , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

Embedding models have become essential tools in both natural language processing and computer vision, enabling efficient semantic search, recommendation, clustering, and more. However, the high memory and computational demands of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jiayi Chen , Chen Wu , Shaoqun Zhang , Nan Li , Liangjie Zhang , Qi Zhang

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

The increase in the dimensionality of neural embedding models has enhanced the accuracy of semantic search capabilities but also amplified the computational demands for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searches (ANNS). This complexity poses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jingjia Luo , Mingxing Zhang , Kang Chen , Xia Liao , Yingdi Shan , Jinlei Jiang , Yongwei Wu

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) presents an inherent tradeoff between performance and recall (i.e., result quality). Each ANNS algorithm provides its own algorithm-dependent parameters to allow applications to influence the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Manos Chatzakis , Yannis Papakonstantinou , Themis Palpanas

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a critical component of modern AI systems, such as recommendation engines and retrieval-augmented large language models (RAG-LLMs). However, scaling ANNS to billion-entry datasets exposes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sitian Chen , Amelie Chi Zhou , Yucheng Shi , Yusen Li , Xin Yao

Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search has become fundamental to modern AI infrastructure, powering recommendation systems, search engines, and large language models across industry leaders from Google to OpenAI. Hierarchical Navigable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ganap Ashit Tewary , Nrusinga Charan Gantayat , Jeff Zhang

Given a vector dataset $\mathcal{X}$, a query vector $\vec{x}_q$, graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) aims to build a proximity graph (PG) as an index of $\mathcal{X}$ and approximately return vectors with minimum…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Qiang Yue , Xiaoliang Xu , Yuxiang Wang , Yikun Tao , Xuliyuan Luo

Traditional post-training quantization (PTQ) is considered an effective approach to reduce model size and accelerate inference of large-scale language models (LLMs). However, existing low-rank PTQ methods require costly fine-tuning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hongyaoxing Gul , Lijuan Hu , Shuzi Niu , Fangfang Liu

In recent years, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) has played a pivotal role in modern search and recommendation systems, especially in emerging LLM applications like Retrieval-Augmented Generation. There is a growing exploration…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yiping Sun , Yang Shi , Jiaolong Du

Late-interaction retrieval models like ColBERT achieve superior accuracy by enabling token-level interactions, but their computational cost hinders scalability and integration with Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS). We introduce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ramnath Kumar , Prateek Jain , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) on high-dimensional vectors has become a fundamental and essential component in various machine learning tasks. Recently, with the rapid development of deep learning models and the applications of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zeyu Wang , Haoran Xiong , Qitong Wang , Zhenying He , Peng Wang , Themis Palpanas , Wei Wang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems combine vector similarity search with large language models (LLMs) to deliver accurate, context-aware responses. However, co-locating the vector retriever and the LLM on shared GPU infrastructure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Junkyum Kim , Divya Mahajan

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

An evolving solution to address hallucination and enhance accuracy in large language models (LLMs) is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which involves augmenting LLMs with information retrieved from an external knowledge source, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Derrick Quinn , Mohammad Nouri , Neel Patel , John Salihu , Alireza Salemi , Sukhan Lee , Hamed Zamani , Mohammad Alian

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

Modern deep learning models capture the semantics of complex data by transforming them into high-dimensional embedding vectors. Emerging applications, such as retrieval-augmented generation, use approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in…

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