The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid 2nd ed. 2013 Edition

“The book is clearly written and structured. The illustrations help readers to understand the presented concepts and algorithms. Every chapter ends with a bibliography. This book is a valuable resource for graduate and PhD students, researchers and practitioners in computer science interested in learning the theoretical foundations related to vector retrieval.” (Mihai Gabroveanu, zbMATH 1557.68003, 2025)

This monograph is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the problem of vector retrieval and formalizes the concepts involved. The second part delves into retrieval algorithms that help solve the vector retrieval problem efficiently and effectively. It includes a chapter each on brand-and-bound algorithms, locality sensitive hashing, graph algorithms, clustering, and sampling. Part three is devoted to vector compression and comprises chapters on quantization and sketching. Finally, the fourth part presents a review of background material in a series of appendices, summarizing relevant concepts from probability, concentration inequalities, and linear algebra.

The book emphasizes the theoretical aspects of algorithms and presents related theorems and proofs. It is thus mainly written for researchers and graduate students in theoretical computer science and database and information systems who want to learn about the theoretical foundations of vector retrieval.