Lower bounds for high dimensional nearest neighbor search and related problems

Allan Borodin*, Rafail Ostrovsky, Yuval Rabani

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The curse of dimensionality describes the phenomenon whereby (in spite of extensive and continuing research) for various geometric search problems we only have algorithms with performance that grows exponentially in the dimension. Recent results show that in some sense it is possible to avoid the curse of dimensionality for the approximate nearest neighbor search problem. But must the exact nearest neighbor search problem suffer this curse? We provide some evidence in support of the curse. Specifically we investigate the exact nearest neighbor search problem and the related problem of exact partial match within the asymmetric communication model first used by Miltersen to study data structure problems. We derive non-trivial asymptotic lower bounds for the exact problem that stand in contrast to known algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)312-321
Number of pages10
JournalConference Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1999 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing - FCRC '99 - Atlanta, GA, USA
Duration: 1 May 19994 May 1999

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