George Gu

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Information retrieval · 100%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Memory systems · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Information retrieval › similarity search › nearest neighbor search
approximate nearest neighbor search
0.912025
VSAG: An Optimized Search Framework for Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025
Information retrieval › similarity search › nearest neighbor search › approximate nearest neighbor search
graph-based ANNS
0.912025
VSAG: An Optimized Search Framework for Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025
Information retrieval › similarity search
nearest neighbor search
0.912025
VSAG: An Optimized Search Framework for Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025
Memory systems
memory access optimization
0.312025
VSAG: An Optimized Search Framework for Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

scalar quantization · 1.7prefetching · 1.7automated parameter tuning · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 VSAG: An Optimized Search Framework for Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
abstract
Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a fundamental problem in vector databases and AI infrastructures. Recent graph-based ANNS algorithms have achieved high search accuracy with practical efficiency. Despite the advancements, these algorithms still face performance bottlenecks in production, due to the random memory access patterns of graph-based search and the high computational overheads of vector distance. In addition, the performance of a graph-based ANNS algorithm is highly sensitive to parameters, while selecting the optimal parameters is cost-prohibitive, e.g., manual tuning requires repeatedly re-building the index. This paper introduces VSAG , an open-source framework that aims to enhance the in production performance of graph-based ANNS algorithms. VSAG has been deployed at scale in the services of Ant Group, and it incorporates three key optimizations: ( i) efficient memory access : it reduces L3 cache misses with pre-fetching and cache-friendly vector organization; ( ii) automated parameter tuning : it automatically selects performance-optimal parameters without requiring index rebuilding; ( iii) efficient distance computation : it leverages modern hardware, scalar quantization, and smartly switches to low-precision representation to dramatically reduce the distance computation costs. We evaluate VSAG on real-world datasets. The experimental results show that VSAG achieves the state-of-the-art performance and provides up to 4× speedup over HNSWlib (an industry-standard library) while ensuring the same accuracy.
Xiaoyao Zhong, Jiabao Jin, Mingyu Yang 0004, Deming Chu, Zhitao Shen, George Gu, Xuemin Lin 0001, Heng Tao Shen, Jingkuan Song, Peng Cheng 0003
Proc. VLDB Endow.9