[Paper]
ARXIV
FOCS
Independent
LSH
We present a new locality sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm for \(c\)-approximate nearest neighbor search in \(\ell_p\) with \(1<p<2\). For a database of \(n\) points in \(\ell_p\), we achieve \(O(dn^{\rho})\) query time and \(O(dn+n^{1+\rho})\) space, where \(\rho \le O((\ln c)^2/c^p)\). This improves upon the previous best upper bound \(\rho\le 1/c\) by Datar et al. (SOCG 2004), and is close to the lower bound \(\rho \ge 1/c^p\) by O’Donnell, Wu and Zhou (ITCS 2011). The proof is a simple generalization of the LSH scheme for \(ℓ₂\) by Andoni and Indyk (FOCS 2006).