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Header-only C++/python library for fast approximate nearest neighbors

12 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2018-11-20 · latest 2024-05-02

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  1. How does this compare to hsnwlib - is it faster? https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib
    comment by jallmann · 2024-03-14 · in Show HN: A fast HNSW implementation in Rust
  2. Good suggestion! Actually the "ef" is not epsilon. It is a parameter of the HNSW index: https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib/blob/master/ALGO_PARAMS.md...
    comment by yhmo · 2023-07-10 · in Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds
  3. …happy to see `hnswlib` as a Python dependency since I'm the one who implemented PyPI support: https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib/pull/140
    comment by Labo333 · 2023-03-31 · in Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search
  4. hnswlib ( https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib ) is a strong alternative to faiss that I have enjoyed using for multiple projects. It is simple and has great performance on CPU. After working through several projects that utilized local…
    comment by wskish · 2023-03-31 · in Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search
  5. https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib Used it to index 40M text snippets in the legal domain. Allows incremental adding. I love how it just works. You know, doesn’t ANNOY me or makes a FAISS. ;-)
    comment by leobg · 2023-02-07 · in Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvector
  6. …your own for other languages). Faiss, Annoy (by Spotify) should also provide similar functionality. https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib
    comment by MasterIdiot · 2022-11-09 · in Building a semantic search engine in Rust
  7. …in terms of accuracy it stacks up fairly well against alternatives like FAISS or ScaNN. [1]: https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib/
    comment by leobg · 2021-12-15 · in Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology
  8. …supposedly lower memory requirements and allows for adding new vectors to an existing index. [1]: https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib/
    comment by leobg · 2021-12-15 · in Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology
  9. …[1] https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast... [2] https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib [3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds [4] https://github.com/spotify/annoy
    comment by andyxor · 2021-06-24 · in Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing
  10. https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib for anybody else googling this library
    comment by dtjohnnyb · 2018-11-20 · in EuclidesDB: a multi-model machine learning feature database