Spann: Highly-efficient billion-scale approximate nearest neighborhood search

Q Chen, B Zhao, H Wang, M Li, C Liu… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The in-memory algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) have achieved
great success for fast high-recall search, but are extremely expensive when handling very …

TPU-KNN: K nearest neighbor search at peak flop/s

F Chern, B Hechtman, A Davis, R Guo… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
This paper presents a novel nearest neighbor search algorithm achieving TPU (Google
Tensor Processing Unit) peak performance, outperforming state-of-the-art GPU algorithms …