Optimal Data-dependent Hashing For Approximate Near Neighbors

Andoni Alexandr, Razenshteyn Ilya. Arxiv 2015

[Paper]    
ARXIV Independent LSH

We show an optimal data-dependent hashing scheme for the approximate near neighbor problem. For an $n$-point data set in a $d$-dimensional space our data structure achieves query time $O(d{n}^{\rho +o(1)})$ and space \(O(n^{1+\rho+o(1)}

• dn)\), where $\rho =\frac{1}{2c^2-1}$ for the Euclidean space and approximation $c>1$. For the Hamming space, we obtain an exponent of $\rho =\frac{1}{2c-1}$. Our result completes the direction set forth in [AINR14] who gave a proof-of-concept that data-dependent hashing can outperform classical Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH). In contrast to [AINR14], the new bound is not only optimal, but in fact improves over the best (optimal) LSH data structures [IM98,AI06] for all approximation factors $c>1$. From the technical perspective, we proceed by decomposing an arbitrary dataset into several subsets that are, in a certain sense, pseudo-random.

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