File IndexLSH.h

namespace faiss

Implementation of k-means clustering with many variants.

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This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.

IDSelector is intended to define a subset of vectors to handle (for removal or as subset to search)

PQ4 SIMD packing and accumulation functions

The basic kernel accumulates nq query vectors with bbs = nb * 2 * 16 vectors and produces an output matrix for that. It is interesting for nq * nb <= 4, otherwise register spilling becomes too large.

The implementation of these functions is spread over 3 cpp files to reduce parallel compile times. Templates are instantiated explicitly.

This file contains callbacks for kernels that compute distances.

Throughout the library, vectors are provided as float * pointers. Most algorithms can be optimized when several vectors are processed (added/searched) together in a batch. In this case, they are passed in as a matrix. When n vectors of size d are provided as float * x, component j of vector i is

x[ i * d + j ]

where 0 <= i < n and 0 <= j < d. In other words, matrices are always compact. When specifying the size of the matrix, we call it an n*d matrix, which implies a row-major storage.

I/O functions can read/write to a filename, a file handle or to an object that abstracts the medium.

The read functions return objects that should be deallocated with delete. All references within these objectes are owned by the object.

Definition of inverted lists + a few common classes that implement the interface.

Since IVF (inverted file) indexes are of so much use for large-scale use cases, we group a few functions related to them in this small library. Most functions work both on IndexIVFs and IndexIVFs embedded within an IndexPreTransform.

In this file are the implementations of extra metrics beyond L2 and inner product

Implements a few neural net layers, mainly to support QINCo

Defines a few objects that apply transformations to a set of vectors Often these are pre-processing steps.

struct IndexLSH : public faiss::IndexFlatCodes
#include <IndexLSH.h>

The sign of each vector component is put in a binary signature

Public Functions

IndexLSH(idx_t d, int nbits, bool rotate_data = true, bool train_thresholds = false)
const float *apply_preprocess(idx_t n, const float *x) const

Preprocesses and resizes the input to the size required to binarize the data

Parameters:

x – input vectors, size n * d

Returns:

output vectors, size n * bits. May be the same pointer as x, otherwise it should be deleted by the caller

virtual void train(idx_t n, const float *x) override

Perform training on a representative set of vectors

Parameters:
  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

virtual void search(idx_t n, const float *x, idx_t k, float *distances, idx_t *labels, const SearchParameters *params = nullptr) const override

Search implemented by decoding

void transfer_thresholds(LinearTransform *vt)

transfer the thresholds to a pre-processing stage (and unset train_thresholds)

inline ~IndexLSH() override
IndexLSH()
virtual void sa_encode(idx_t n, const float *x, uint8_t *bytes) const override

encode a set of vectors

Parameters:
  • n – number of vectors

  • x – input vectors, size n * d

  • bytes – output encoded vectors, size n * sa_code_size()

virtual void sa_decode(idx_t n, const uint8_t *bytes, float *x) const override

decode a set of vectors

Parameters:
  • n – number of vectors

  • bytes – input encoded vectors, size n * sa_code_size()

  • x – output vectors, size n * d

Public Members

int nbits

nb of bits per vector

bool rotate_data

whether to apply a random rotation to input

bool train_thresholds

whether we train thresholds or use 0

RandomRotationMatrix rrot

optional random rotation

std::vector<float> thresholds

thresholds to compare with