Track: Data Mining
Paper Title:
Scaling Up All Pairs Similarity Search
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Abstract:
Given a large collection of sparse vector data in a high dimensional space, we investigate the problem of finding all pairs of vectors whose similarity score (as determined by a function such as cosine distance) is above a given threshold. We propose novel optimization and indexing techniques for this problem, resulting in an algorithm that is both faster and simpler than the previous state-of-the-art approaches. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm on the public DBLP dataset, and on two real-world web applications: generating recommendations for the Orkut social network, and computing pairs of similar queries from search snippet data among the 5 million most frequently issued Google queries. Our algorithm is between 5 times to 20 times faster than previous algorithms on these datasets.
