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New Index-Free Method Boosts Dynamic MIPS Performance

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Researchers have developed ETAR, a novel index-free method for dynamic maximum inner-product search (MIPS) that aims to balance query speed with simple updates. ETAR achieves this by focusing on query coordinates with the largest squared values, treating the rest as a low-magnitude tail, and estimating similarity from these retained coordinates. The method demonstrated strong performance across various datasets, achieving 99.2% Recall@10 and running over 4x faster than exact scanning on static datasets, with speedups extending to mobile devices. ETAR also maintained 100% Recall@10 under streaming workloads without requiring index rebuilds. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Omar Alhussein ·

    Index-Free Dynamic Edge Retrieval with Energy-Tail-Aware Partial Scans

    Dynamic maximum inner-product search (MIPS) returns the $K$ stored vectors with the largest dot products with a query while allowing the dataset to change through insertions, replacements, and deletions. For edge retrieval, the challenge is to achieve high recall and fast queries…

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