Probabilistic near-duplicate detection using simhash

  • Authors:
  • Sadhan Sood;Dmitri Loguinov

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper offers a novel look at using a dimensionality-reduction technique called simhash to detect similar document pairs in large-scale collections. We show that this algorithm produces interesting intermediate data, which is normally discarded, that can be used to predict which of the bits in the final hash are more susceptible to being flipped in similar documents. This paves the way for a probabilistic search technique in the Hamming space of simhashes that can be significantly faster and more space-efficient than the existing simhash approaches. We show that with 95% recall compared to deterministic search of prior work, our method exhibits 4-14 times faster lookup and requires 2-10 times less RAM on our collection of 70M web pages.