Enhancing search with indexing techniques
ANN and k-NN search are fundamental solutions in computer science and machine learning, with applications in various domains such as image retrieval, recommendation systems, and similarity search. While search algorithms play a crucial role in ANN and k-NN, indexing techniques and data structures are equally important for enhancing the efficiency and performance of these algorithms.
These indexing techniques are used to optimize the search process by reducing the number of vectors that need to be compared during the search. They help in quickly identifying a smaller subset of candidate vectors that are likely to be similar to the query vector. The search algorithms (such as k-NN, ANN, or other similarity search algorithms) can then operate on this reduced set of candidate vectors to find the actual nearest neighbors or similar vectors.
All these techniques aim to improve the efficiency and scalability of similarity search by reducing...