Really interesting and have not heard of k-medoids before!
Have you tried BanditPAM as an index creation technique for approximate-nearest-neighbor search?
Have you tried BanditPAM as an index creation technique for approximate-nearest-neighbor search?
We definitely think that our approach could be used to make an index structure for ANN search directly, for example in conjunction with Hierarchical Navigable Small World approaches.
[Try this tool from arxiv labs (just replace the x in original url with a 5)]