2 papers
cs.IR2026
The Clustering Strikes Back: Building Cost-Effective and High-Performance ANNS at Scale with Helmsman
Yuchen Huang, Baiteng Ma, Yiping Sun +7
RedNote (a.k.a., Xiaohongshu, a global-scale social network platform) widely adopts approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) to power its search, recommendation, and advertising…
cs.OS2026
"Range as a Key" is the Key! Fast and Compact Cloud Block Store Index with RASK
Haoru Zhao, Mingkai Dong, Erci Xu +2
In cloud block store, indexing is on the critical path of I/O operations and typically resides in memory. With the scaling of users and the emergence of denser storage media, the i…