File VectorTransform.h

namespace faiss

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struct VectorTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

Any transformation applied on a set of vectors

Subclassed by faiss::CenteringTransform, faiss::ITQTransform, faiss::LinearTransform, faiss::NormalizationTransform, faiss::RemapDimensionsTransform

Public Functions

inline explicit VectorTransform(int d_in = 0, int d_out = 0)

! output dimension

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

Perform training on a representative set of vectors. Does nothing by default.

Parameters:

  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

virtual void apply_noalloc(idx_t n, const float *x, float *xt) const = 0

apply the transformation and return the result in a provided matrix

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

  • xt – output vectors, size n * d_out

virtual void reverse_transform(idx_t n, const float *xt, float *x) const

reverse transformation. May not be implemented or may return approximate result

virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const = 0
inline virtual ~VectorTransform()

Public Members

int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct LinearTransform : public faiss::VectorTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

Generic linear transformation, with bias term applied on output y = A * x + b

Subclassed by faiss::ITQMatrix, faiss::OPQMatrix, faiss::PCAMatrix, faiss::RandomRotationMatrix

Public Functions

explicit LinearTransform(int d_in = 0, int d_out = 0, bool have_bias = false)

both d_in > d_out and d_out < d_in are supported

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

same as apply, but result is pre-allocated

void transform_transpose(idx_t n, const float *y, float *x) const

compute x = A^T * (x - b) is reverse transform if A has orthonormal lines

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

works only if is_orthonormal

void set_is_orthonormal()

compute A^T * A to set the is_orthonormal flag

void print_if_verbose(const char *name, const std::vector<double> &mat, int n, int d) const
virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
inline ~LinearTransform() override
virtual void train(idx_t n, const float *x)

Perform training on a representative set of vectors. Does nothing by default.

Parameters:

  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

Public Members

bool have_bias
bool is_orthonormal

! whether to use the bias term

check if matrix A is orthonormal (enables reverse_transform)

std::vector<float> A

Transformation matrix, size d_out * d_in.

std::vector<float> b

bias vector, size d_out

bool verbose
int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct RandomRotationMatrix : public faiss::LinearTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

Randomly rotate a set of vectors.

Public Functions

inline RandomRotationMatrix(int d_in, int d_out)

both d_in > d_out and d_out < d_in are supported

void init(int seed)

must be called before the transform is used

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

Perform training on a representative set of vectors. Does nothing by default.

Parameters:

  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

inline RandomRotationMatrix()
virtual void apply_noalloc(idx_t n, const float *x, float *xt) const override

same as apply, but result is pre-allocated

void transform_transpose(idx_t n, const float *y, float *x) const

compute x = A^T * (x - b) is reverse transform if A has orthonormal lines

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

works only if is_orthonormal

void set_is_orthonormal()

compute A^T * A to set the is_orthonormal flag

void print_if_verbose(const char *name, const std::vector<double> &mat, int n, int d) const
virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

Public Members

bool have_bias
bool is_orthonormal

! whether to use the bias term

check if matrix A is orthonormal (enables reverse_transform)

std::vector<float> A

Transformation matrix, size d_out * d_in.

std::vector<float> b

bias vector, size d_out

bool verbose
int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct PCAMatrix : public faiss::LinearTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

Applies a principal component analysis on a set of vectors, with optionally whitening and random rotation.

Public Functions

explicit PCAMatrix(int d_in = 0, int d_out = 0, float eigen_power = 0, bool random_rotation = false)
virtual void train(idx_t n, const float *x) override

train on n vectors. If n < d_in then the eigenvector matrix will be completed with 0s

void copy_from(const PCAMatrix &other)

copy pre-trained PCA matrix

void prepare_Ab()

called after mean, PCAMat and eigenvalues are computed

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

same as apply, but result is pre-allocated

void transform_transpose(idx_t n, const float *y, float *x) const

compute x = A^T * (x - b) is reverse transform if A has orthonormal lines

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

works only if is_orthonormal

void set_is_orthonormal()

compute A^T * A to set the is_orthonormal flag

void print_if_verbose(const char *name, const std::vector<double> &mat, int n, int d) const
virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

Public Members

float eigen_power

after transformation the components are multiplied by eigenvalues^eigen_power

=0: no whitening =-0.5: full whitening

float epsilon

value added to eigenvalues to avoid division by 0 when whitening

bool random_rotation

random rotation after PCA

size_t max_points_per_d

ratio between # training vectors and dimension

int balanced_bins

try to distribute output eigenvectors in this many bins

std::vector<float> mean

Mean, size d_in.

std::vector<float> eigenvalues

eigenvalues of covariance matrix (= squared singular values)

std::vector<float> PCAMat

PCA matrix, size d_in * d_in.

bool have_bias
bool is_orthonormal

! whether to use the bias term

check if matrix A is orthonormal (enables reverse_transform)

std::vector<float> A

Transformation matrix, size d_out * d_in.

std::vector<float> b

bias vector, size d_out

bool verbose
int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct ITQMatrix : public faiss::LinearTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

ITQ implementation from

Iterative quantization: A procrustean approach to learning binary codes for large-scale image retrieval,

Yunchao Gong, Svetlana Lazebnik, Albert Gordo, Florent Perronnin, PAMI’12.

Public Functions

explicit ITQMatrix(int d = 0)
virtual void train(idx_t n, const float *x) override

Perform training on a representative set of vectors. Does nothing by default.

Parameters:

  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

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

same as apply, but result is pre-allocated

void transform_transpose(idx_t n, const float *y, float *x) const

compute x = A^T * (x - b) is reverse transform if A has orthonormal lines

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

works only if is_orthonormal

void set_is_orthonormal()

compute A^T * A to set the is_orthonormal flag

void print_if_verbose(const char *name, const std::vector<double> &mat, int n, int d) const
virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

Public Members

int max_iter
int seed
std::vector<double> init_rotation
bool have_bias
bool is_orthonormal

! whether to use the bias term

check if matrix A is orthonormal (enables reverse_transform)

std::vector<float> A

Transformation matrix, size d_out * d_in.

std::vector<float> b

bias vector, size d_out

bool verbose
int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct ITQTransform : public faiss::VectorTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

The full ITQ transform, including normalizations and PCA transformation

Public Functions

explicit ITQTransform(int d_in = 0, int d_out = 0, bool do_pca = false)
virtual void train(idx_t n, const float *x) override

Perform training on a representative set of vectors. Does nothing by default.

Parameters:

  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

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

apply the transformation and return the result in a provided matrix

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

  • xt – output vectors, size n * d_out

virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

virtual void reverse_transform(idx_t n, const float *xt, float *x) const

reverse transformation. May not be implemented or may return approximate result

Public Members

std::vector<float> mean
bool do_pca
ITQMatrix itq
int max_train_per_dim

max training points per dimension

LinearTransform pca_then_itq
int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct OPQMatrix : public faiss::LinearTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

Applies a rotation to align the dimensions with a PQ to minimize the reconstruction error. Can be used before an IndexPQ or an IndexIVFPQ. The method is the non-parametric version described in:

“Optimized Product Quantization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search” Tiezheng Ge, Kaiming He, Qifa Ke, Jian Sun, CVPR’13

Public Functions

explicit OPQMatrix(int d = 0, int M = 1, int d2 = -1)

if d2 != -1, output vectors of this dimension

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

Perform training on a representative set of vectors. Does nothing by default.

Parameters:

  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

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

same as apply, but result is pre-allocated

void transform_transpose(idx_t n, const float *y, float *x) const

compute x = A^T * (x - b) is reverse transform if A has orthonormal lines

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

works only if is_orthonormal

void set_is_orthonormal()

compute A^T * A to set the is_orthonormal flag

void print_if_verbose(const char *name, const std::vector<double> &mat, int n, int d) const
virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

Public Members

int M

nb of subquantizers

int niter

Number of outer training iterations.

int niter_pq

Number of training iterations for the PQ.

int niter_pq_0

same, for the first outer iteration

size_t max_train_points

if there are too many training points, resample

bool verbose
ProductQuantizer *pq

if non-NULL, use this product quantizer for training should be constructed with (d_out, M, _)

bool have_bias
bool is_orthonormal

! whether to use the bias term

check if matrix A is orthonormal (enables reverse_transform)

std::vector<float> A

Transformation matrix, size d_out * d_in.

std::vector<float> b

bias vector, size d_out

int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct RemapDimensionsTransform : public faiss::VectorTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

remap dimensions for intput vectors, possibly inserting 0s strictly speaking this is also a linear transform but we don’t want to compute it with matrix multiplies

Public Functions

RemapDimensionsTransform(int d_in, int d_out, const int *map)
RemapDimensionsTransform(int d_in, int d_out, bool uniform = true)

remap input to output, skipping or inserting dimensions as needed if uniform: distribute dimensions uniformly otherwise just take the d_out first ones.

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

apply the transformation and return the result in a provided matrix

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

  • xt – output vectors, size n * d_out

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

reverse transform correct only when the mapping is a permutation

inline RemapDimensionsTransform()
virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
virtual void train(idx_t n, const float *x)

Perform training on a representative set of vectors. Does nothing by default.

Parameters:

  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

Public Members

std::vector<int> map

map from output dimension to input, size d_out -1 -> set output to 0

int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct NormalizationTransform : public faiss::VectorTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

per-vector normalization

Public Functions

explicit NormalizationTransform(int d, float norm = 2.0)
NormalizationTransform()
virtual void apply_noalloc(idx_t n, const float *x, float *xt) const override

apply the transformation and return the result in a provided matrix

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

  • xt – output vectors, size n * d_out

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

Identity transform since norm is not revertible.

virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
virtual void train(idx_t n, const float *x)

Perform training on a representative set of vectors. Does nothing by default.

Parameters:

  • n – nb of training vectors

  • x – training vecors, size n * d

float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

Public Members

float norm
int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already

struct CenteringTransform : public faiss::VectorTransform
#include <VectorTransform.h>

Subtract the mean of each component from the vectors.

Public Functions

explicit CenteringTransform(int d = 0)
virtual void train(idx_t n, const float *x) override

train on n vectors.

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

subtract the mean

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

add the mean

virtual void check_identical(const VectorTransform &other) const override
float *apply(idx_t n, const float *x) const

apply the transformation and return the result in an allocated pointer

Parameters:

  • n – number of vectors to transform

  • x – input vectors, size n * d_in

Returns:

output vectors, size n * d_out

Public Members

std::vector<float> mean

Mean, size d_in = d_out.

int d_in
int d_out

! input dimension

bool is_trained

set if the VectorTransform does not require training, or if training is done already