##  [Locality-Sensitive Hashing](/locality-sensitive-hashing) 

  ##  [Locality-Sensitive Hashing](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/locality-sensitive-hashing-0) 

  

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Definition

A family of hashing techniques designed so that similar items are likely to be mapped to the same bucket, enabling efficient approximate nearest-neighbor search and dimensionality reduction for high-dimensional data.