Summary:
IndexPQ and IndexIVFPQ implementations with AVX shuffle instructions.
The training and computing of the codes does not change wrt. the original PQ versions but the code layout is "packed" so that it can be used efficiently by the SIMD computation kernels.
The main changes are:
- new IndexPQFastScan and IndexIVFPQFastScan objects
- simdib.h for an abstraction above the AVX2 intrinsics
- BlockInvertedLists for invlists that are 32-byte aligned and where codes are not sequential
- pq4_fast_scan.h/.cpp: for packing codes and look-up tables + optmized distance comptuation kernels
- simd_result_hander.h: SIMD version of result collection in heaps / reservoirs
Misc changes:
- added contrib.inspect_tools to access fields in C++ objects
- moved .h and .cpp code for inverted lists to an invlists/ subdirectory, and made a .h/.cpp for InvertedListsIOHook
- added a new inverted lists type with 32-byte aligned codes (for consumption by SIMD)
- moved Windows-specific intrinsics to platfrom_macros.h
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/pull/1542
Test Plan:
```
buck test mode/opt -j 4 //faiss/tests/:test_fast_scan_ivf //faiss/tests/:test_fast_scan
buck test mode/opt //faiss/manifold/...
```
Reviewed By: wickedfoo
Differential Revision: D25175439
Pulled By: mdouze
fbshipit-source-id: ad1a40c0df8c10f4b364bdec7172e43d71b56c34
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
shengjun.li
Matthijs Douze
Lucas Hosseini
Lucas Hosseini
Tom Forbes