Abstract-We present a parallel algorithm for k-nearest neighbor graph construction that uses Morton ordering. Experiments show that our approach has the following advantages over existing methods: (1) Faster construction of k-nearest neighbor graphs in practice on multi-core machines. (2) Less space usage. (3) Better cache efficiency. (4) Ability to handle large data sets. (5) Ease of parallelization and implementation. If the point set has a bounded expansion constant, our algorithm requires one comparison based parallel sort of points according to Morton order plus near linear additional steps to output the k-nearest neighbor graph.

Abstract. Let P be a set of points in R d . We propose GEOFILTERKRUSKAL, an algorithm that computes the minimum spanning tree of P using well separated pair decomposition in combination with a simple modification of Kruskal's algorithm. When P is sampled from uniform random distribution, we show that our algorithm takes one parallel sort plus a linear number of additional steps, with high probability, to compute the minimum spanning tree. Experiments show that our algorithm works better in practice for most data distributions compared to the current state of the art [31]. Our algorithm is easy to parallelize and to our knowledge, is currently the best practical algorithm on multi-core machines for d > 2.

Abstract. This paper shows that using some very simple practical assumptions, one can design an algorithm that finds the nearest neighbor of a given query point in O(log n) time in theory and faster than the state of the art in practice. The algorithm and proof are both simple and the experimental results clearly show that we can beat the state of the art on most distributions in two dimensions.

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