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Neural architecture search enables automation of architecture design. Despite its success, it is computationally costly and does not provide an insight on how to design a desirable architecture. Here we propose a new way of searching neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Zhenhan Huang , Chunheng Jiang , Pin-Yu Chen , Jianxi Gao

This paper introduces "Multi-Level Spherical LSH": parameter-free, a multi-level, data-dependant Locality Sensitive Hashing data structure for solving the Approximate Near Neighbors Problem (ANN). This data structure uses a modified version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Teresa Nicole Brooks , Rania Almajalid

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in computer science for which in-memory graph-based methods, such as Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW), perform exceptionally well. To scale beyond billions of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Manuel Widmoser , Daniel Kocher , Nikolaus Augsten

Neural architecture search (NAS) for Graph neural networks (GNNs), called NAS-GNNs, has achieved significant performance over manually designed GNN architectures. However, these methods inherit issues from the conventional NAS methods, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Peng Xu , Lin Zhang , Xuanzhou Liu , Jiaqi Sun , Yue Zhao , Haiqin Yang , Bei Yu

In a random linear graph, vertices are points on a line, and pairs of vertices are connected, independently, with a link probability that decreases with distance. We study the problem of reconstructing the linear embedding from the graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Israel Rocha , Jeannette Janssen , Nauzer Kalyaniwalla

Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

The approximate nearest neighbor problem ($\epsilon$-ANN) in high dimensional Euclidean space has been mainly addressed by Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), which has polynomial dependence in the dimension, sublinear query time, but…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Evangelos Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros

We present an algorithm to grow a graph with scale-free structure of {\it in-} and {\it out-links} and variable wiring diagram in the class of the world-wide Web. We then explore the graph by intentional random walks using local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bosiljka Tadic

We present an efficient dynamic data structure that supports geodesic nearest neighbor queries for a set of point sites $S$ in a static simple polygon $P$. Our data structure allows us to insert a new site in $S$, delete a site from $S$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Lars Arge , Frank Staals

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider this problem in the setting of local algorithms: one wants to quickly determine whether a given edge $e$ is in a specific spanning tree,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Performing analytical tasks over graph data has become increasingly interesting due to the ubiquity and large availability of relational information. However, unlike images or sentences, there is no notion of sequence in networks. Nodes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Matheus Nunes , Gisele L. Pappa

In the realm of generative models for graphs, extensive research has been conducted. However, most existing methods struggle with large graphs due to the complexity of representing the entire joint distribution across all node pairs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Andreas Bergmeister , Karolis Martinkus , Nathanaël Perraudin , Roger Wattenhofer

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search with range filters has recently garnered significant attention. This paper delves into a generalized form of this problem, i.e., ANN search with exact range-range (RR) predicates on a range-valued…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yingfan Liu , Tong Wu , Jiadong Xie , Yang Zhao , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Jiangtao Cui

We introduce hierarchical neighbor graphs, a new architecture for connecting ad hoc wireless nodes distributed in a plane. The structure has the flavor of hierarchical clustering and requires only local knowledge and minimal computation at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Amitabha Bagchi , Adit Madan , Achal Premi

We estimate the minimum number of distance queries that is sufficient to reconstruct the binomial random graph $G(n,p)$ with constant diameter with high probability. We get a tight (up to a constant factor) answer for all $p>n^{-1+o(1)}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Michael Krivelevich , Maksim Zhukovskii

Let $P$ be a path graph of $n$ vertices embedded in a metric space. We consider the problem of adding a new edge to $P$ so that the radius of the resulting graph is minimized, where any center is constrained to be one of the vertices of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

k-nearest neighbor graph is a fundamental data structure in many disciplines such as information retrieval, data-mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning, etc. In the literature, considerable research has been focusing on how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wan-Lei Zhao , Hui Wang , Peng-Cheng Lin , Chong-Wah Ngo

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is fundamental to modern AI applications. Most existing solutions optimize query efficiency but fail to align with the practical requirements of modern workloads. In this paper, we outline six…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kejing Lu , Zhenpeng Pan , Jianbin Qin , Yoshiharu Ishikawa , Chuan Xiao

We propose a new exact method for shortest-path distance queries on large-scale networks. Our method precomputes distance labels for vertices by performing a breadth-first search from every vertex. Seemingly too obvious and too inefficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Takuya Akiba , Yoichi Iwata , Yuichi Yoshida

Nearest neighbor (NN) problem is an important scientific problem. The NN query, to find the closest one to a given query point among a set of points, is widely used in applications such as density estimation, pattern classification,…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yang Li , Gang Liu , Junbin Gao , Zhenwen He , Mingyuan Bai , Chengjun Li