Facebook sync (Mar 2019)
- MatrixStats object
- option to round coordinates during k-means optimization
- alternative option for search in HNSW
- moved stats and imbalance_factor of IndexIVF to InvertedLists object
- range search for IVFScalarQuantizer
- direct unit8 codec in ScalarQuantizer
- renamed IndexProxy to IndexReplicas and moved to main Faiss
- better support for PQ code assignment with external index
- support for IMI2x16 (4B virtual centroids!)
- support for k = 2048 search on GPU (instead of 1024)
- most CUDA mem alloc failures throw exceptions instead of terminating on an assertion
- support for renaming an ondisk invertedlists
- interrupt computations with ctrl-C in python
Features:
- automatic tracking of C++ references in Python
- non-intel platforms supported -- some functions optimized for ARM
- override nprobe for concurrent searches
- support for floating-point quantizers in binary indexes
Bug fixes:
- no more segfaults in python (I know it's the same as the first feature but it's important!)
- fix GpuIndexIVFFlat issues for float32 with 64 / 128 dims
- fix sharding of flat indexes on GPU with index_cpu_to_gpu_multiple
* moved most FAISS_ASSERT calls to C++ exceptions, and adjusted
memory allocation to avoid mem leaks
* added an IndexIVFScalarQuantizer type that offers an
intermediate compression between IVFFlat and IVFPQ
* support removal of indices in IndexIDMap / IndexFlat combination
* various fixes in GPU code
Lucas Hosseini
Matthijs Douze