An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning

An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning

  • April 24, 2018
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An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning

New research is an excellent opportunity to reexamine the fundamentals of a field; and it’s not often that something as fundamental (and well studied) as indexing experiences a breakthrough. This article serves as an introduction to hash tables, an abbreviated examination of what makes them fast and slow, and an intuitive view of the machine learning concepts that are being applied to indexing in the paper.

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