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Improving the Sensitivity of MinHash Through Hash-Value Analysis

Authors Gregory Kucherov , Steven Skiena

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Gregory Kucherov
  • LIGM, CNRS/Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, France
Steven Skiena
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

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  • Skiena, Steven: Partially supported by a travel grant from Université Paris-Est, and NSF grant IIS-1927227.

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Gregory Kucherov and Steven Skiena. Improving the Sensitivity of MinHash Through Hash-Value Analysis. In 34th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 259, pp. 20:1-20:12, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2023.20

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MinHash sketching is an important algorithm for efficient document retrieval and bioinformatics. We show that the value of the matching MinHash codes convey additional information about the Jaccard similarity of S and T over and above the fact that the MinHash codes agree. This observation holds the potential to increase the sensitivity of minhash-based retrieval systems. We analyze the expected Jaccard similarity of two sets as a function of observing a matching MinHash value a under a reasonable prior distribution on intersection set sizes, and present a practical approach to using MinHash values to improve the sensitivity of traditional Jaccard similarity estimation, based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical test for sample distributions. Experiments over a wide range of hash function counts and set similarities show a small but consistent improvement over chance at predicting over/under-estimation, yielding an average accuracy of 61% over the range of experiments.

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  • Theory of computation → Bloom filters and hashing
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  • MinHash sketching
  • sequence similarity
  • hashing

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