Navigating Labels and Vectors: A Unified Approach to Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

Summary: Unified Navigating Graph (UNG) bridges label-set containment with vector proximity for filtered ANNS. Label Navigating Graph encodes containment of label sets to guide search, enabling complete, label-aware results and 10x speedups when integrated with graph-based ANNS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6993
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.6755204e-05
Overall Rank: 5,129 | 64.32%
DOI: 10.1145/3698822

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212	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	0.00033913475
495	Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System	2021	SIGMOD	0.00021767688
562	Query-Aware Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2016	VLDB	0.00020091752
605	Locality-Sensitive Hashing Scheme Based on Dynamic Collision Counting	2012	SIGMOD	0.000193396
770	A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Comparison of Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2021	VLDB	0.00016917602
1,636	PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011053863
2,023	Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Multi-dimensional Databases	2023	SIGMOD	9.7544991e-05
2,523	ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data	2024	SIGMOD	8.604576e-05
2,971	Towards Efficient Index Construction and Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High-Dimensional Spaces	2023	VLDB	7.7970531e-05
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4,200	New Trends in High-D Vector Similarity Search: AI-driven, Progressive, and Distributed	2021	VLDB	6.3651489e-05
7,316	Steiner-Hardness: A Query Hardness Measure for Graph-Based ANN Indexes	2024	VLDB	4.7640297e-05

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