在计算机科学中，AVL树是最先发明的自平衡二叉查找树。在AVL树中任何节点的两个子树的高度最大差别为一，所以它也被称为高度平衡树。查找、插入和删除在平均和最坏情况下都是O（log n）。增加和删除可能需要通过一次或多次树旋转来重新平衡这个树。AVL树得名于它的发明者G.M. Adelson-Velsky和E.M. Landis，他们在1962年的论文《An algorithm for the organization of information》中发表了它。

节点的平衡因子是它的左子树的高度减去它的右子树的高度（有时相反）。带有平衡因子1、0或 -1的节点被认为是平衡的。带有平衡因子 -2或2的节点被认为是不平衡的，并需要重新平衡这个树。平衡因子可以直接存储在每个节点中，或从可能存储在节点中的子树高度计算出来。

In computer science, an AVL tree (Georgy Adelson-Velsky and Evgenii Landis' tree, named after the inventors) is a self-balancing binary search tree. It was the first such data structure to be invented. In an AVL tree, the heights of the two child subtrees of any node differ by at most one; if at any time they differ by more than one, rebalancing is done to restore this property. Lookup, insertion, and deletion all take O(log n) time in both the average and worst cases, where n is the number of nodes in the tree prior to the operation. Insertions and deletions may require the tree to be rebalanced by one or more tree rotations.