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Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has become vital to modern AI infrastructure, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. Numerous in-browser ANNS engines have emerged to seamlessly integrate with popular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Mugeng Liu , Siqi Zhong , Qi Yang , Yudong Han , Xuanzhe Liu , Yun Ma

Computing $k$-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) is one of the core kernels used in many machine learning, data mining and scientific computing applications. Although kd-tree based $O(\log n)$ algorithms have been proposed for computing KNN, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish , Narayanan Sundaram , Jialin Liu , Peter Sadowski , Evan Racah , Suren Byna , Craig Tull , Wahid Bhimji , Prabhat , Pradeep Dubey

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

This paper aims to accelerate the test-time computation of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Unlike existing methods that are designed for approximating linear filters or linear responses, our method takes the nonlinear units into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Xiangyu Zhang , Jianhua Zou , Xiang Ming , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) constitutes an important operation in a multitude of applications, including recommendation systems, information retrieval, and pattern recognition. In the past decade, graph-based ANNS algorithms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mengzhao Wang , Xiaoliang Xu , Qiang Yue , Yuxiang Wang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor search is one of the keys to high-scale data retrieval performance in many applications. The work is a bridge between feature extraction and ANN indexing through fine-tuning a ResNet50 model with various ANN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 MD Shaikh Rahman , Syed Maudud E Rabbi , Muhammad Mahbubur Rashid

GPS enables mobile devices to continuously provide new opportunities to improve our daily lives. For example, the data collected in applications created by Uber or Public Transport Authorities can be used to plan transportation routes,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Sheng Wang , Zhifeng Bao , J. Shane Culpepper , Timos Sellis , Gao Cong

Finding the graphs that are most similar to a query graph in a large database is a common task with various applications. A widely-used similarity measure is the graph edit distance, which provides an intuitive notion of similarity and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Franka Bause , David B. Blumenthal , Erich Schubert , Nils M. Kriege

Although Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search has been extensively studied, large-k ANN queries that aim to retrieve a large number of nearest neighbors remain underexplored, despite their numerous real-world applications. Existing ANN…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ziqi Yin , Gao Cong , Kai Zeng , Jinwei Zhu , Bin Cui

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

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) query in high-dimensional Euclidean space is a key operator in database systems. For this query, quantization is a popular family of methods developed for compressing vectors and reducing memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jianyang Gao , Yutong Gou , Yuexuan Xu , Yongyi Yang , Cheng Long , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Many real-world tasks such as recommending videos with the kids tag can be reduced to finding most similar vectors associated with hard predicates. This task, filtered vector search, is challenging as prior state-of-the-art graph-based…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhaoheng Li , Silu Huang , Wei Ding , Yongjoo Park , Jianjun Chen

Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

This work aims to address an open problem in data valuation literature concerning the efficient computation of Data Shapley for weighted $K$ nearest neighbor algorithm (WKNN-Shapley). By considering the accuracy of hard-label KNN with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jiachen T. Wang , Prateek Mittal , Ruoxi Jia

High dimensionality, i.e. data having a large number of variables, tends to be a challenge for most machine learning tasks, including classification. A classifier usually builds a model representing how a set of inputs explain the outputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Francisco J. Pulgar , Francisco Charte , Antonio J. Rivera , María J. del Jesus

High-dimensional similarity search underpins modern retrieval systems, yet uniform search strategies fail to exploit the heterogeneous nature of real-world query distributions. We present an adaptive prefiltering framework that leverages…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Teodor-Ioan Calin

Big data mining is well known to be an important task for data science, because it can provide useful observations and new knowledge hidden in given large datasets. Proximity-based data analysis is particularly utilized in many real-life…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Daichi Amagata , Yusuke Arai , Sumio Fujita , Takahiro Hara

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…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as the time-delay neural network (TDNN), have shown their remarkable capability in learning speaker embedding. However, they meanwhile bring a huge computational cost in storage size, processing,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Rui Wang , Zhihua Wei , Haoran Duan , Shouling Ji , Yang Long , Zhen Hong

The in-memory algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) have achieved great success for fast high-recall search, but are extremely expensive when handling very large scale database. Thus, there is an increasing request for…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Qi Chen , Bing Zhao , Haidong Wang , Mingqin Li , Chuanjie Liu , Zengzhong Li , Mao Yang , Jingdong Wang