Earth Mover’s Distance based Similarity Search at Scale
Summary: Scales EMD similarity search by optimizing refinement: an adapted min-cost-flow solver (SIA), dynamic early-termination bounds, and candidate ordering with concurrent refinement. Orthogonal to existing filters, reducing needless exact EMD computations by orders of magnitude. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yu Tang (University of Hong Kong)
- 2. Leong Hou U (University of Macau)
- 3. Yilun Cai (University of Hong Kong)
- 4. Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong)
- 5. Reynold Cheng (University of Hong Kong)
BibTeX Citation
@article{tang_vldb14,
title = {{Earth Mover’s Distance based Similarity Search at Scale}},
author = {Tang, Yu and U, Leong Hou and Cai, Yilun and Mamoulis, Nikos and Cheng, Reynold},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '14},
volume = {7},
number = {4},
pages = {313--324},
doi = {10.14778/2732240.2732249},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732240.2732249},
year = {2014}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,041 | Combining Quantitative and Logical Data Cleaning | 2016 | VLDB | 9.2692538e-05 |
| 5,726 | Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search | 2019 | VLDB | 6.1079184e-05 |
| 11,577 | Fast Dataset Search with Earth Mover's Distance | 2022 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,692 | Optimizing Bipartite Matching in Real-World Applications by Incremental Cost Computation | 2021 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,914 | Statistical Distortion: Consequences of Data Cleaning | 2012 | VLDB | 9.4886927e-05 |
| 3,353 | Efficient EMD-based Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases via Flexible Dimensionality Reduction | 2008 | SIGMOD | 7.492706e-05 |
| 4,112 | Efficient and Effective Similarity Search over Probabilistic Data based on Earth Mover's Distance | 2010 | VLDB | 6.8944534e-05 |
| 6,513 | Indexing the Earth Mover’s Distance Using Normal Distributions | 2012 | VLDB | 5.8560106e-05 |
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