UBC Graduate Research

Computational Geometry in High-Dimensional Spaces Liu, Paul

Abstract

In this project, we provide a review of efficient solutions to a few high-dimensional CG problems, with particular focus on the problem of nearest neighbour search. For the problems we examine, the general approach will be to either reduce the dimension (using the JL transform) or to preprocess the data and group together points that are close together (using locality sensitive hashing). Finally, we apply these techniques to a relaxed version of the unit disc cover problem, an NP-Hard facility location problem that has only been effectively approximated in the low-dimensional case.