Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2022
Abstract
Nearest neighbor search and k-nearest neighbor graph construction are two fundamental issues that arise from many disciplines such as multimedia information retrieval, data-mining, and machine learning. They become more and more imminent given the big data emerge in various fields in recent years. In this paper, a simple but effective solution both for approximate k-nearest neighbor search and approximate k-nearest neighbor graph construction is presented. These two issues are addressed jointly in our solution. On one hand, the approximate k-nearest neighbor graph construction is treated as a search task. Each sample along with its k-nearest neighbors is joined into the k-nearest neighbor graph by performing the nearest neighbor search sequentially on the graph under construction. On the other hand, the built k-nearest neighbor graph is used to support k-nearest neighbor search. Since the graph is built online, the dynamic update on the graph, which is not possible for most of the existing solutions, is supported. This solution is feasible for various distance measures. Its effectiveness both as k-nearest neighbor construction and k-nearest neighbor search approaches is verified across different types of data in different scales, various dimensions, and under different metrics.
Keywords
Measurement, Quantization (signal), Indexing, Task analysis, Nearest neighbor methods, Approximation algorithms, Time complexity, k-nearest neighbor graph, nearest neighbor search, high-dimensional, NN-descent
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems
Research Areas
Data Science and Engineering
Publication
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Volume
24
First Page
1909
Last Page
1921
ISSN
1520-9210
Identifier
10.1109/TMM.2021.3073811
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
ZHAO, Wan-Lei; WANG, Hui; and NGO, Chong-wah.
Approximate k-NN graph construction: A generic online approach. (2022). IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 24, 1909-1921.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7244
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2021.3073811