Title
HQANN: Efficient and Robust Similarity Search for Hybrid Queries with Structured and Unstructured Constraints.
Abstract
The in-memory approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms have achieved great success for fast high-recall query processing, but are extremely inefficient when handling hybrid queries with unstructured (i.e., feature vectors) and structured (i.e., related attributes) constraints. In this paper, we present HQANN, a simple yet highly efficient hybrid query processing framework which can be easily embedded into existing proximity graph-based ANNS algorithms. We guarantee both low latency and high recall by leveraging navigation sense among attributes and fusing vector similarity search with attribute filtering. Experimental results on both public and in-house datasets demonstrate that HQANN is 10x faster than the state-of-the-art hybrid ANNS solutions to reach the same recall quality and its performance is hardly affected by the complexity of attributes. It can reach 99\% recall@10 in just around 50 microseconds On GLOVE-1.2M with thousands of attribute constraints.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3511808.3557610
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Wu112454.63
Junlin He200.34
Yu Qiao32267152.01
Guoheng Fu400.34
Li Liu59632.59
Jin Yu6416.25