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Similarity Query Processing for High-Dimensional Data

Summary: Tutorial surveying high-dimensional similarity query processing, bridging DB and ML with embeddings, auto-encoders, and pre-trained models. Reviews exact and approximate methods (cover trees, LSH, product quantization, proximity graphs), ML-driven selectivity estimation, and DB–ML synergy to spur ML-for-DB and DB-for-ML solutions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h91c6c9f9352e5b56
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
7.479122e-05
Overall Rank
3,244 | 78.26%
DOI
10.14778/3415478.3415564
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BibTeX Citation

@article{qin_vldb20,
        title = {{Similarity Query Processing for High-Dimensional Data}},
        author = {Qin, Jianbin and Wang, Wei and Xiao, Chuan and Zhang, Ying},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3437--3440},
        doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415564},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415564},
        year = {2020}
}

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802 RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 0.00013822222
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2,370 DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models 2023 VLDB 8.5469172e-05
2,728 iRangeGraph: Improvising Range-dedicated Graphs for Range-filtering Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 8.0686023e-05
2,836 Practical and Asymptotically Optimal Quantization of High-Dimensional Vectors in Euclidean Space for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 7.9410774e-05
3,389 SymphonyQG: Towards Symphonious Integration of Quantization and Graph for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 7.329962e-05
4,368 UNIFY: Unified Index for Range Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search 2025 VLDB 6.6237291e-05
6,854 Filtered Vector Search: State-of-the-art and Research Opportunities 2025 VLDB 5.647101e-05
7,414 LiteHST: A Tree Embedding based Method for Similarity Search 2023 SIGMOD 5.5161476e-05
7,918 Using VDMS to Index and Search 100M Images 2021 VLDB 5.4112841e-05
8,992 GEqO: ML-Accelerated Semantic Equivalence Detection 2023 SIGMOD 5.2295579e-05
10,593 VecBench: A Controllable Benchmark for Filtered Vector Search: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,616 Accelerating High-Dimensional ANN Search via Skipping Redundant Distance Computations 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,934 Interactive Mining with Ordered and Unordered Attributes 2022 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Showing 22 of 22 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
20 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00057610161
40 The Case for Learned Index Structures 2018 SIGMOD 0.00046249672
45 A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces 1998 VLDB 0.00044967652
56 M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces 1997 VLDB 0.0004024707
75 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00037163157
158 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00028049555
434 Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching 2014 SIGMOD 0.00018323777
562 SRS: Solving c-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries in High Dimensional Euclidean Space with a Tiny Index 2015 VLDB 0.00016344855
578 Quality and Efficiency in High Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search 2009 SIGMOD 0.00016079505
889 The Pyramid-Technique: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality 1998 SIGMOD 0.00013212387
1,318 VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning 2020 VLDB 0.00011035606
1,325 LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search 2016 VLDB 0.000110184
1,460 PM-LSH: A Fast and Accurate LSH Framework for High-Dimensional Approximate NN Search 2020 VLDB 0.00010558941
1,511 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010408003
1,642 Local Dimensionality Reduction: A New Approach to Indexing High Dimensional Spaces 2000 VLDB 9.9812004e-05
1,650 Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services 2017 SIGMOD 9.9690948e-05
2,514 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3446573e-05
5,153 Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach 2020 SIGMOD 6.2375324e-05
5,467 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.1037173e-05
6,246 Fine-grained Concept Linking using Neural Networks in Healthcare 2018 SIGMOD 5.8200726e-05
6,962 Indexing the Edges – A simple and yet efficient approach to high-dimensional indexing 2000 PODS 5.6181217e-05
8,297 Consistent and Flexible Selectivity Estimation for High-Dimensional Data 2021 SIGMOD 5.3438874e-05
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