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: 4512
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.7850397e-05
Overall Rank: 6,746 | 53.72%
DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989429

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Authors

1. Yang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
2. Feifei Li (Florida State University)
3. Ke Yi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
4. Bin Yao (Florida State University)
5. Min Wang (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{li_sigmod11,
        title = {{Flexible Aggregate Similarity Search}},
        author = {Li, Yang and Li, Feifei and Yi, Ke and Yao, Bin and Wang, Min},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989429},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989429},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,850	Nearest-Neighbor Searching Under Uncertainty	2012	PODS	6.480347e-05
6,251	The Flexible Socio Spatial Group Queries	2019	VLDB	5.9415675e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
21	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00056760516
28	Nearest Neighbor Queries	1995	SIGMOD	0.00052102434
56	M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces	1997	VLDB	0.00040719947
581	Quality and Efficiency in High Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search	2009	SIGMOD	0.00016153395
690	Efficient Similarity Search and Classification via Rank Aggregation	2003	SIGMOD	0.0001492934

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