* [c_api] use all relevant flags in compilation
* [c_api] Remove redundant IndexIVFFlat declarations
- From IndexIVF_c.h, already declared in IndexIVFFlat_c.h
* [c_api] type changes
- replace `long` with a more suitable type
- provide definitions for `faiss_component_t` and `faiss_distance_t`
* [c_api] Define CFLAGS and CUDACFLAGS
Bugfixes:
- slow scanning of inverted lists (#836).
Features:
- add basic support for 6 new metrics in CPU `IndexFlat` and `IndexHNSW` (#848);
- add support for `IndexIDMap`/`IndexIDMap2` with binary indexes (#780).
Misc:
- throw python exception for OOM (#758);
- make `DistanceComputer` available for all random access indexes;
- gradually moving from `long` to `int64_t` for portability.
* [c_api] Update impl and interface for v1.5
- move IndexShards to dedicated module IndexShards_c.{h|cpp}
- remove getter/setters to unreachable fields
- reimplement faiss_IndexIVF_imbalance_factor (to use invlists)
- minor IndexIVF documentation tweaks
- Remove QueryResult, provide RangeQueryResult
* [c_api] Document FaissErrorCode
* [c_api] Update GPU impl and interface for v1.5
- Remove unavailable method setTempMemoryFraction
* [c_api] Relicense to MIT
In accordance to the rest of the project
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
+ Add conda packages metadata (now building Faiss using conda's toolchain);
+ add Dockerfile for building conda packages (for all CUDA versions);
+ add working Dockerfile building faiss on Centos7;
+ simplify GPU build;
+ avoid falling back to CPU-only version (python);
+ simplify TravisCI config;
+ update INSTALL.md;
+ add configure flag for specifying target architectures (--with-cuda-arch);
+ fix Makefile for gpu tests;
+ fix various Makefile issues;
+ remove stale file (gpu/utils/DeviceUtils.cpp).
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
