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Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) underpins many large-scale data mining and machine learning applications, with efficient retrieval increasingly hinging on GPU acceleration as dataset sizes grow. Although graph-based approaches…

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With the growing integration of structured and unstructured data, new methods have emerged for performing similarity searches on vectors while honoring structured attribute constraints, i.e., a process known as Filtering Approximate Nearest…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mocheng Li , Xiao Yan , Baotong Lu , Yue Zhang , James Cheng , Chenhao Ma

Near neighbor search (NNS) is a powerful abstraction for data access; however, data indexing is troublesome even for approximate indexes. For intrinsically high-dimensional data, high-quality fast searches demand either indexes with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Eric S. Tellez , Guillermo Ruiz , Edgar Chavez , Mario Graff

We introduce a novel dictionary optimization method for high-dimensional vector quantization employed in approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Vector quantization methods first seek a series of dictionaries, then approximate each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Shicong Liu , Hongtao Lu

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

Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search and Approximate Kernel Density Estimation (A-KDE) are fundamental problems at the core of modern machine learning, with broad applications in data analysis, information systems, and large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ved Danait , Srijan Das , Sujoy Bhore

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art (SOTA) method for graph-based learning tasks. However, it still remains prohibitively challenging to inference GNNs over large graph datasets, limiting their application to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yongan Zhang , Haoran You , Yonggan Fu , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Yingyan Lin

Approximate nearest-neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms have become increasingly critical for recent AI applications, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent-based LLM applications. In this paper, we present CRINN, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xiaoya Li , Xiaofei Sun , Albert Wang , Chris Shum , Jiwei Li

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

The long-standing dominance of gradient-boosted decision trees for tabular data has recently been challenged by in-context learning tabular foundation models. In-context learning methods fit and predict in one forward pass without parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Guri Zabërgja , Rafiq Kamel , Arlind Kadra , Christian M. M. Frey , Josif Grabocka

Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) is a nonparametric method for estimating the shape of a density function, given a set of samples from the distribution. Recently, locality-sensitive hashing, originally proposed as a tool for nearest neighbor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Matti Karppa , Martin Aumüller , Rasmus Pagh

The $k$-Nearest Neighbor Search ($k$-NNS) is the backbone of several cloud-based services such as recommender systems, face recognition, and database search on text and images. In these services, the client sends the query to the cloud…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hao Chen , Ilaria Chillotti , Yihe Dong , Oxana Poburinnaya , Ilya Razenshteyn , M. Sadegh Riazi

Optimizing resource utilization in target platforms is key to achieving high performance during DNN inference. While optimizations have been proposed for inference latency, memory footprint, and energy consumption, prior hardware-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler , Nikolaos Dimitriadis , Pascal Frossard

The ongoing Big Data explosion has created a demand for efficient and scalable algorithms for similarity search. Most recent work has focused on \textit{approximate} $k$-NN search, and while this may be sufficient for some applications,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Morgan E. Prior , Thomas J. Howard , Oliver McLaughlin , Terrence Ferguson , Najib Ishaq , Noah M. Daniels

As artificial intelligence gains more and more popularity, vectors are one of the most widely used data structures for services such as information retrieval and recommendation. Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS), which generally…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhui Lai , Shixun Huang , Sheng Wang

The Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) problem asks to design a data structure that preprocesses an $n$-point dataset $X$ lying in a metric space $\mathcal{M}$, so that given a query point $q \in \mathcal{M}$, one can quickly return a point of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Robert Krauthgamer , Nir Petruschka

Embedding into hyperbolic space is emerging as an effective representation technique for datasets that exhibit hierarchical structure. This development motivates the need for algorithms that are able to effectively extract knowledge and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Xian Wu , Moses Charikar

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

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

The analysis of high-dimensional sparse data is becoming increasingly popular in many important domains. However, real-world sparse tensors are challenging to process due to their irregular shapes and data distributions. We propose the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Ahmed E. Helal , Jan Laukemann , Fabio Checconi , Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Teresa Ranadive , Fabrizio Petrini , Jeewhan Choi