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.
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
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
Lucas Hosseini
Matthijs Douze