declarative recall

Published and submitted papers

  1. Darth: Declarative recall through early termination for approximate nearest neighbor search
    Manos Chatzakis, Yannis Papakonstantinou, and Themis Palpanas
    Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, 2025
    Volume 3, number 4, pages 1--26. ACM New York, NY, USA.
    Notes: Paper is available here, code here and slides here.
  2. The quest for faster ANN vector search
    Manos Chatzakis, Francesca Del Gaudio, Sophia Sideri, and Themis Palpanas
    EDBT, 2026
    Notes: Paper is available here, code here and slides here.
  3. DARTH+: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Declarative Recall and Quality Guarantees
    Manos Chatzakis, Yannis Papakonstantinou, and Themis Palpanas
    March 2026
    This paper is an extended version of "DARTH: Declarative Recall Through Early Termination for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search" (SIGMOD 2026) and is currently under review.
    Notes: Paper is available here, code here and slides here.
  5. The Senate of Early Terminators
    In preparation for IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, coming soon!
    Notes: Paper is available here, code here and slides here.

Interesting reads

I am maintaining a github repo summarizing the latest and most interesting papers on early termination.

The repo is available here.