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
* Refactors Makefiles and add configure script.
* Give MKL higher priority in configure script.
* Clean up Linux example makefile.inc.
* Cleanup makefile.inc examples.
* Fix python clean Makefile target.
* Regen swig wrappers.
* Remove useless CUDAFLAGS variable.
* Fix python linking flags.
* Separate compile and link phase in python makefile.
* Add macro to look for swig.
* Add CUDA check in configure script.
* Cleanup make depend targets.
* Cleanup CUDA flags.
* Fix linking flags.
* Fix python GPU linking.
* Remove useless flags from python gpu module linking.
* Add check for cuda libs.
* Cleanup GPU targets.
* Clean up test target.
* Add cpu/gpu targets to python makefile.
* Clean up tutorial Makefile.
* Remove stale OS var from example makefiles.
* Clean up cuda example flags.
Lucas Hosseini