简介(Introduction)
Clustering is an important technique used in large-scale approximate nearest neighbor search to accelerate the process of finding the closest neighbors of a query point within a large dataset.
In approximate nearest neighbor search, the goal is to find the k-nearest neighbors of a query point, where k is a small integer. The brute force approach involves computing the distance between the query point and each data point in the dataset, which can be computationally expensive for large datasets.
Clustering helps to reduce the computational complexity of the search by dividing the dataset into smaller groups or clusters, based on their similarity. This is typically done using clustering algorithms like k-means or hierarchical clustering.
Once the dataset has been clustered, the nearest cluster(s) to the query point can be identified efficiently, and the search can be restricted to the data points within those clusters. This red