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Through the Lens of Hubness: A Revisit on Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: [Experiments & Analysis]

Summary: Shows hubness—central hubs and isolated anti-hubs—as the root of graph-ANNS tail latency and greedy-search failures. A unified taxonomy and 100M-scale experiments reveal mitigation trade-offs; hubness-aware pruning improves outlier performance cheaply. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 26 2026)

Paper ID
h6dec914ab4960973
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2026
Pagerank
4.9605343e-05
Overall Rank
10,588 | 29.03%
DOI
10.1145/3802120
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@inproceedings{xu_sigmod26,
        title = {{Through the Lens of Hubness: A Revisit on Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: [Experiments \& Analysis]}},
        author = {Xu, Xiaoliang and Dai, Haonan and Li, Can and Wang, Mengzhao and Yue, Qiang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3802120},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3802120},
        year = {2026}
}

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802 RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 0.00013822222
837 Improving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search through Learned Adaptive Early Termination 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013530806
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4,157 Steiner-Hardness: A Query Hardness Measure for Graph-Based ANN Indexes 2024 VLDB 6.7596305e-05
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