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Jiancheng Ruan
dblp:410/4235
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 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% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithms and data structures · 50% Computational geometry · 50% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Representation and self-supervised learning · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning
contrastive learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Empowering Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Adaptive Awareness Capabilities · KDD (2) 2025 |
Information retrieval › similarity search › nearest neighbor search
approximate nearest neighbor search |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Empowering Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Adaptive Awareness Capabilities · KDD (2) 2025 |
Information retrieval › similarity search
nearest neighbor search |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Empowering Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Adaptive Awareness Capabilities · KDD (2) 2025 |
Algorithms and data structures › data structure design › search structures › indexing
graph indexing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Empowering Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Adaptive Awareness Capabilities · KDD (2) 2025 |
Computational geometry › geometric graph
proximity graphs |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Empowering Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Adaptive Awareness Capabilities · KDD (2) 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
graph indexing · 2.6contrastive learning · 2.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Empowering Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Adaptive Awareness CapabilitiesabstractApproximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces finds extensive applications in databases, information retrieval, recommender systems, etc. While graph-based methods have emerged as the leading solution for ANNS due to their superior query performance, they still face several challenges, such as struggling with local optima and redundant computations. These issues arise because existing methods (i) fail to fully exploit the topological information underlying the proximity graph G, and (ii) suffer from severe distribution mismatches between the base data and queries in practice. To this end, this paper proposes GATE, high-tier proximity Graph with Adaptive Topology and Query Awareness, as a lightweight and adaptive module atop the graph-based indexes to accelerate ANNS. Specifically, GATE formulates the critical problem to identify an optimal entry point in the proximity graph for a given query, facilitating faster online search. By leveraging the inherent clusterability of high-dimensional data, GATE first extracts a small set of hub nodes V as candidate entry points. Then, resorting to a contrastive learning-based two-tower model, GATE encodes both the structural semantics underlying G and the query-relevant features into the latent representations of these hub nodes V. A navigation graph index on V is further constructed to minimize the model inference overhead. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GATE achieves a 1.2-2.0X speed-up in query performance compared to state-of-the-art graph-based indexes. Jiancheng Ruan, Tingyang Chen, Renchi Yang, Xiangyu Ke, Yunjun Gao |
KDD (2) | 1 |