Flexible Aggregate Similarity Search

Summary: Introduces flexible aggregate similarity (FANN), extending ANN by aggregating distances to any subset of Q with phi in (0,1). Proposes exact and approximate algorithms; simple, efficient, constant-factor guarantees in any dimension; strong empirical results from 2–74D. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4451
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.01361e-05
Overall Rank: 6,545 | 54.52%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,721	Nearest-Neighbor Searching Under Uncertainty	2012	PODS	5.9647585e-05
6,495	The Flexible Socio Spatial Group Queries	2019	VLDB	5.0334905e-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
8	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0015436578
34	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00076824554
48	Nearest Neighbor Queries	1995	SIGMOD	0.0006954126
91	M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces	1997	VLDB	0.00051785122
675	Quality and Efficiency in High Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search	2009	SIGMOD	0.00018304179
710	Efficient Similarity Search and Classification via Rank Aggregation	2003	SIGMOD	0.00017727016

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