This document discusses locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) and related techniques for efficiently finding similar items in large datasets. LSH works by using hash functions to map similar items to the same "buckets", allowing efficient lookup of near neighbors. The document outlines applications of LSH such as duplicate detection, clustering, and search. It also discusses limitations of LSH and how Bayesian and probabilistic graphical models can be used to improve similarity search for less similar items or incorporate additional context. Links to further resources on machine learning, statistics, and related topics are provided.