Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/pull/2582
A few more or less cosmetic improvements
* Index::idx_t was in the Index object, which does not make much sense, this diff moves it to faiss::idx_t
* replace multiprocessing.dummy with multiprocessing.pool
* add Alexandr as a core contributor of Faiss in the README ;-)
```
for i in $( find . -name \*.cu -o -name \*.cuh -o -name \*.h -o -name \*.cpp ) ; do
sed -i s/Index::idx_t/idx_t/ $i
done
```
For the fbcode deps:
```
for i in $( fbgs Index::idx_t --exclude fbcode/faiss -l ) ; do
sed -i s/Index::idx_t/idx_t/ $i
done
```
Reviewed By: algoriddle
Differential Revision: D41437507
fbshipit-source-id: 8300f2a3ae97cace6172f3f14a9be3a83999fb89
Changelog:
- changed license: BSD+Patents -> MIT
- propagates exceptions raised in sub-indexes of IndexShards and IndexReplicas
- support for searching several inverted lists in parallel (parallel_mode != 0)
- better support for PQ codes where nbit != 8 or 16
- IVFSpectralHash implementation: spectral hash codes inside an IVF
- 6-bit per component scalar quantizer (4 and 8 bit were already supported)
- combinations of inverted lists: HStackInvertedLists and VStackInvertedLists
- configurable number of threads for OnDiskInvertedLists prefetching (including 0=no prefetch)
- more test and demo code compatible with Python 3 (print with parentheses)
- refactored benchmark code: data loading is now in a single file
* 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
Saarth Deshpande
Matthijs Douze
Lucas Hosseini
Lucas Hosseini
Matthijs Douze
Lizz