Damien Hilloulin

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0003-8013-1616ORCID · reported

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

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Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Information retrieval · 83% Indexing and storage engines · 8% Graph data management · 8%

Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Information retrieval › similarity search › nearest neighbor search
filtered vector search
0.912025
RWalks: Random Walks as Attribute Diffusers for Filtered Vector Search · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025
Information retrieval › similarity search › nearest neighbor search
graph-based vector search
0.912025
RWalks: Random Walks as Attribute Diffusers for Filtered Vector Search · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025
Information retrieval › similarity search
nearest neighbor search
0.912025
RWalks: Random Walks as Attribute Diffusers for Filtered Vector Search · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025
Graph data management
graph indexing
0.312025
RWalks: Random Walks as Attribute Diffusers for Filtered Vector Search · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025
Indexing and storage engines
vector index
0.312025
RWalks: Random Walks as Attribute Diffusers for Filtered Vector Search · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025

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

random walk · 0.9graph-based indexing · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 RWalks: Random Walks as Attribute Diffusers for Filtered Vector Search
abstract
Analytical tasks in various domains increasingly encode complex information as dense vector data (e.g., embeddings), often requiring filtered vector search (i.e., vector search with attribute filtering). This search is challenging due to the volume and dimensionality of the data, the number and variety of filters, and the difference in distribution and/or update frequency between vectors and filters. Besides, many real applications require answers in a few milliseconds with high recall on large collections. Graph-based methods are considered the best choice for such applications, despite a lack of theoretical guarantees on query accuracy. Existing solutions for filtered vector search are either: 1) ad-hoc, using existing techniques with no or minor modifications; or 2) hybrid, providing specialized indexing and/or search algorithms. We show that neither is satisfactory and propose RWalks, an index-agnostic graph-based filtered vector search method that efficiently supports both filtered and unfiltered vector search. We demonstrate its scalability and robustness against the state-of-the-art with an exhaustive experimental evaluation on four real datasets (up to 100 million vectors), using query workloads with filters of different types (unique/composite), and varied specificity (proportion of points that satisfy a filter). The results show that RWalks can perform filtered search up to 2x faster than the second-best competitor (ACORN), while building the index 76x faster and answering unfiltered search 13x faster.
Anas Ait Aomar, Karima Echihabi, Marco Arnaboldi, Ioannis Alagiannis, Damien Hilloulin, Manal Cherkaoui
Proc. ACM Manag. Data5