Searching Web Data using MinHash LSH

Summary: MinHash LSH applied to indexing and searching Web data, with a statistical tuning strategy for MinHash LSH. Empirical evaluation against inverted indexes and an online demo on real Web data reveal accuracy and performance tradeoffs and practical viability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5228
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.9235251e-05
Overall Rank: 6,798 | 52.71%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2914838

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Authors

1. BiChen Rao
2. Erkang Zhu

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,181	PM-LSH: A Fast and Accurate LSH Framework for High-Dimensional Approximate NN Search	2020	VLDB	9.3451821e-05
2,641	Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Earthquake Detection: A Case Study of Scaling Data-Driven Science	2018	VLDB	8.3905374e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,141	LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search	2016	VLDB	9.4542625e-05

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