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Locality-Sensitive Hashing without False Negatives for l_p

Andrzej Pacuk·Piotr Sankowski·Karol Wegrzycki·Piotr Wygocki
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In this paper, we show a construction of locality-sensitive hash functions without false negatives, i.e., which ensure collision for every pair of points within a given radius $R$ in $d$ dimensional space equipped with $l_p$ norm when $p \in [1,\infty]$. Furthermore, we show how to use these hash functions to solve the $c$-approximate nearest neighbor search problem without false negatives. Namely, if there is a point at distance $R$, we will certainly report it and points at distance greater than $cR$ will not be reported for $c=\Omega(\sqrt{d},d^{1-\frac{1}{p}})$. The constructed algorithms work: - with preprocessing time $\mathcal{O}(n \log(n))$ and sublinear expected query time, - with preprocessing time $\mathcal{O}(\mathrm{poly}(n))$ and expected query time $\mathcal{O}(\log(n))$. Our paper reports progress on answering the open problem presented by Pagh [8] who considered the nearest neighbor search without false negatives for the Hamming distance.

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Andrzej Pacuk, Piotr Sankowski, Karol Wegrzycki, Piotr Wygocki. 2016-11-28. Locality-Sensitive Hashing without False Negatives for l_p. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42634-1_9

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