Document Type

Article

Publication Date

November 2017

Publication Title

International Journal of Data Science and Analytics

Volume

4

Issue Number

3

First Page

153

Last Page

172

DOI

10.1007/s41060-017-0064-z

Abstract

Tanimoto, or extended Jaccard, is an important similarity measure which has seen prominent use in fields such as data mining and chemoinformatics. Many of the existing state-of-the-art methods for market basket analysis, plagiarism and anomaly detection, compound database search, and ligand-based virtual screening rely heavily on identifying Tanimoto nearest neighbors. Given the rapidly increasing size of data that must be analyzed, new algorithms are needed that can speed up nearest neighbor search, while at the same time providing reliable results. While many search algorithms address the complexity of the task by retrieving only some of the nearest neighbors, we propose a method that finds all of the exact nearest neighbors efficiently by leveraging recent advances in similarity search filtering. We provide tighter filtering bounds for the Tanimoto coefficient and show that our method, TAPNN, greatly outperforms existing baselines across a variety of real-world datasets and similarity thresholds.

Comments

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41060-017-0064-z

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