Junjie Song

FAVOR: Efficient Filter-Agnostic Vector ANNS Based on Selectivity-Aware Exclusion Distances

2026 · Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data

Modern retrieval systems increasingly require integrating approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) with complex attribute filtering to handle hybrid queries in applications such as recommendation systems and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). While HNSW-based inline-filtering methods show promise, …