RWalks: Random Walks as Attribute Diffusers for Filtered Vector Search

Summary: RWalks: index-agnostic graph-based filtered vector search with random-walk diffusion for both filtered and unfiltered queries. Scales to 100M vectors; beats ACORN: 2x faster filtered search, 76x faster index builds, 13x faster unfiltered search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha2292e6f6afb0f70
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.5586007e-05
Overall Rank: 7,305 | 50.89%
DOI: 10.1145/3725349

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Authors

1. Anas Ait Aomar (Mohammed V University)
2. Karima Echihabi (Mohammed V University)
3. Marco Arnobaldi (Oracle)
4. Ioannis Alagiannis (Oracle)
5. Damien Hilloulin (Oracle)
6. Manal Cherkaoui (Mohammed V University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{aomar_sigmod25,
        title = {{RWalks: Random Walks as Attribute Diffusers for Filtered Vector Search}},
        author = {Aomar, Anas Ait and Echihabi, Karima and Arnobaldi, Marco and Alagiannis, Ioannis and Hilloulin, Damien and Cherkaoui, Manal},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3725349},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725349},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,325	WoW: A Window-to-Window Incremental Index for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2026	SIGMOD	5.0346745e-05
10,409	An In-Depth Study of Filter-Agnostic Vector Search on a PostgreSQL Database System: [Experiments & Analysis]	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,823	Revisiting Filtered ANN Benchmarks: A Hardness-Controlled Benchmark Generator for Realistic Evaluation	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,827	Sparse Neighborhood Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Revisited: Theoretical Analysis and Optimization	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,851	GAS: A Lightweight Framework for Filtered Search over Wide-table Vectors	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
45	A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces	1998	VLDB	0.0004503446
56	M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces	1997	VLDB	0.00040370171
74	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	0.00037091678
298	Query-Aware Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2016	VLDB	0.00021833987
345	A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Comparison of Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2021	VLDB	0.00020445545
650	HD-Index: Pushing the Scalability-Accuracy Boundary for Approximate kNN Search in High-Dimensional Spaces	2018	VLDB	0.00015149775
1,095	A Data-adaptive and Dynamic Segmentation Index for Whole Matching on Time Series	2013	VLDB	0.00012050625
1,225	ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data	2024	SIGMOD	0.00011444398
1,625	Towards Efficient Index Construction and Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High-Dimensional Spaces	2023	VLDB	0.0001004502
2,265	ELPIS: Graph-Based Similarity Search for Scalable Data Science	2023	VLDB	8.7238222e-05
2,730	Return of the Lernaean Hydra: Experimental Evaluation of Data Series Approximate Similarity Search	2020	VLDB	8.0861221e-05
2,871	Graph-Based Vector Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art	2025	SIGMOD	7.9229231e-05
2,872	The Lernaean Hydra of Data Series Similarity Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State of the Art	2019	VLDB	7.9228762e-05
3,086	New Trends in High-D Vector Similarity Search: AI-driven, Progressive, and Distributed	2021	VLDB	7.6629311e-05
5,313	Hercules Against Data Series Similarity Search	2022	VLDB	6.1846986e-05
6,181	High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search: From Time Series to Deep Network Embeddings	2020	SIGMOD	5.8595125e-05

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