Output-optimal Parallel Algorithms for Similarity Joins

Summary: Refines Beame et al.'s 2-relation output-optimal parallel join to true optimality and develops output-optimal parallel algorithms for a broad class of similarity joins (ℓ1, ℓ2, ℓ∞), including LSH-based methods. Proves a lower bound ruling out output-optimal algorithms for joins with >2 relations. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1722
Venue: PODS
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.7173578e-05
Overall Rank: 3,833 | 73.34%
DOI: 10.1145/3034786.3056110

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