Self-taught hashing for fast similarity search

The ability of fast similarity search at large scale is of great importance to many Information Retrieval (IR) applications. A promising way to accelerate similarity search is semantic hashing which designs compact binary codes for a large number of documents so that semantically similar documents are mapped to similar codes (within a short Hamming distance). Although some recently proposed techniques are able to generate high-quality codes for documents known in advance, obtaining the codes for previously unseen documents remains to be a very challenging problem. In this paper, we emphasise this issue and propose a novel SelfTaught Hashing (STH) approach to semantic hashing: we first find the optimal l-bit binary codes for all documents in the given corpus via unsupervised learning, and then train l classifiers via supervised learning to predict the l-bit code for any query document unseen before. Our experiments on three real-world text datasets show that the proposed approach us...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Dell Zhang, Jun Wang, Deng Cai, Jinsong Lu
• Keywords: Document, Information Management, Semantic Hashing, SIGIR 2010, Similarity Search