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Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) in high-dimensional vector spaces has a wide range of real-world applications. Numerous methods have been proposed to handle ANNS efficiently, while graph-based indexes have gained prominence due…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Yifan Zhu , Bocheng Yu , Baihua Zheng , Yunjun Gao

Graph search is one of the most successful algorithmic trends in near neighbor search. Several of the most popular and empirically successful algorithms are, at their core, a simple walk along a pruned near neighbor graph. Such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Benjamin Coleman , Santiago Segarra , Anshumali Shrivastava , Alex Smola

Learned dense representations are a popular family of techniques for encoding queries and documents using high-dimensional embeddings, which enable retrieval by performing approximate k nearest-neighbors search (A-kNN). A popular technique…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Francesco Busolin , Claudio Lucchese , Franco Maria Nardini , Salvatore Orlando , Raffaele Perego , Salvatore Trani

Proximity graphs (PG) have gained increasing popularity as the state-of-the-art solutions to $k$-approximate nearest neighbor ($k$-ANN) search on high-dimensional data, which serves as a fundamental function in various fields, e.g.,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuo Yang , Jiadong Xie , Yingfan Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Xiyue Gao , Qianru Wang , Yanguo Peng , Jiangtao Cui

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

Graph-based algorithms have shown great empirical potential for the approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search problem. Currently, graph-based ANN search algorithms are designed mainly using heuristics, whereas theoretical analysis of such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Dantong Zhu , Minjia Zhang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) over high-dimensional vectors is a foundational problem in databases, where disk I/O often emerges as the dominant performance bottleneck at scale. To accelerate search, graph-based indexes rely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Huiling Li , Xin Huang , Byron Choi , Jianliang Xu

Approximate Nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is fundamental and essential operation in applications from many domains, such as databases, machine learning, multimedia, and computer vision. Although many algorithms have been continuously…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Wen Li , Ying Zhang , Yifang Sun , Wei Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

"Reverse Nearest Neighbor" query finds applications in decision support systems, profile-based marketing, emergency services etc. In this paper, we point out a few flaws in the branch and bound algorithms proposed earlier for computing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Siddharth Dawar , Vikram Goyal , Debajyoti Bera

This work addresses the problem of billion-scale nearest neighbor search. The state-of-the-art retrieval systems for billion-scale databases are currently based on the inverted multi-index, the recently proposed generalization of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Dmitry Baranchuk , Artem Babenko , Yury Malkov

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

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a crucial problem in information retrieval and AI applications. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in graph-based ANNS algorithms due to their superior efficiency and accuracy.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenxin Li , Shuibing He , Jiahao Guo , Xuechen Zhang , Xian-He Sun , Gang Chen

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

The K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) join is an expensive but important operation in many data mining algorithms. Several recent applications need to perform KNN join for high dimensional sparse data. Unfortunately, all existing KNN join algorithms…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-11-15 Jijie Wang , Lei Lin , Ting Huang , Jingjing Wang , Zengyou He

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in many areas of data mining, machine learning and computer vision. The performance of traditional hierarchical structure (tree) based methods decreases as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Cong Fu , Deng Cai

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental problem in many areas of machine learning and data mining. During the past decade, numerous hashing algorithms are proposed to solve this problem. Every proposed algorithm claims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Deng Cai

A $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$NN) query determines the $k$ nearest points, using distance metrics, from a specific location. An all $k$-nearest neighbor (A$k$NN) query constitutes a variation of a $k$NN query and retrieves the $k$ nearest…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Nikolaos Nodarakis , Spyros Sioutas , Dimitrios Tsoumakos , Giannis Tzimas , Evaggelia Pitoura

In high-dimensional vector spaces, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a key component in database and artificial intelligence infrastructures. Graph-based methods, particularly HNSW, have emerged as leading solutions among…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mengzhao Wang , Haotian Wu , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao , Yifan Zhu , Wenchao Zhou

Nearest neighbour search over dense vector collections has important applications in information retrieval, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and content ranking. Performing efficient search over large vector collections is a well…

Nearest neighbor search is a very active field in machine learning for it appears in many application cases, including classification and object retrieval. In its canonical version, the complexity of the search is linear with both the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Vincent Gripon , Matthias Löwe , Franck Vermet