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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
ha8c28f0ad8e8ac08
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2024
Pagerank
8.0204877e-05
Overall Rank
2,783 | 81.30%
DOI
10.1145/3698822

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cai_sigmod24,
        title = {{Navigating Labels and Vectors: A Unified Approach to Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search}},
        author = {Cai, Yuzheng and Shi, Jiayang and Chen, Yizhuo and Zheng, Weiguo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3698822},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3698822},
        year = {2024}
}

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7,435 Cracking Vector Search Indexes 2025 VLDB 5.5266018e-05
10,332 WoW: A Window-to-Window Incremental Index for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.0322912e-05
10,333 Fast-Convergent Proximity Graphs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.0322912e-05
10,421 An In-Depth Study of Filter-Agnostic Vector Search on a PostgreSQL Database System: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,437 CMANNS: GPU-Accelerated Graph Index Construction for ANNS via Compute-Memory Disaggregation 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,468 FAVOR: Efficient Filter-Agnostic Vector ANNS Based on Selectivity-Aware Exclusion Distances 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,502 PathSeer: Adaptive Neighbor Handling for Efficient Filtered ANN Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,520 TaCo: Data-adaptive and Query-aware Subspace Collision for High-dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,522 Through the Lens of Hubness: A Revisit on Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,558 Beyond Vector Search: Querying With and Without Predicates 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,639 Curator: Efficient Vector Search with Low-Selectivity Filters 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,646 Efficient and Robust Out-Of-Distribution Vector Similarity Search with Cross-Distribution Monotonic Graph 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,653 FGIM: a Fast Graph-based Indexes Merging Framework for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,719 Quantization Meets Projection: A Happy Marriage for Approximate k-Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,755 Balancing the Blend: An Experimental Analysis of Trade-offs in Hybrid Search 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,763 An Experimental Evaluation of Hybrid Querying on Vectors 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,779 Harmonizing Efficiency and Accuracy in Filtered Vector Search 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,833 Revisiting Filtered ANN Benchmarks: A Hardness-Controlled Benchmark Generator for Realistic Evaluation 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,897 CGIF: Combining Proximity Graphs and Inverted Files for Efficient Filtered Vector Search over Arbitrary Predicates 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,037 Advances of Query Processing in Vector Databases 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,057 Elastic Index Selection for Label-Hybrid AKNN Search 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0019923528
74 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00037145866
189 Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System 2021 SIGMOD 0.0002585319
297 Query-Aware Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2016 VLDB 0.00021849337
338 Locality-Sensitive Hashing Scheme Based on Dynamic Collision Counting 2012 SIGMOD 0.00020600264
344 A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Comparison of Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2021 VLDB 0.00020455839
909 PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension 2020 SIGMOD 0.0001312576
1,166 Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Multi-dimensional Databases 2023 SIGMOD 0.0001172922
1,225 ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data 2024 SIGMOD 0.00011447937
1,618 Towards Efficient Index Construction and Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High-Dimensional Spaces 2023 VLDB 0.00010053127
1,958 SeRF: Segment Graph for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 9.3118048e-05
3,086 New Trends in High-D Vector Similarity Search: AI-driven, Progressive, and Distributed 2021 VLDB 7.6602071e-05
4,600 Steiner-Hardness: A Query Hardness Measure for Graph-Based ANN Indexes 2024 VLDB 6.5055567e-05
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