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Comment · 2 years ago
3. The project started under a Harvard affiliated Github org during the course of PhDs. These same people later joined Google where it continued to be developed and over time adopted more and more in place of TensorFlow.
Comment · 2 years ago
i did it does a ton of allocations, which is why i made a simple maxheap implementation and then sort the final result
Comment · 2 years ago
please make it even faster!
Comment · 2 years ago
it doesn't seem to have better support for things like xor and count_ones. I believe the main use case is comparisons.
Comment · 2 years ago
julia> @code_typed hamming_distance(Int8(33), Int8(125)) CodeInfo( 1 ─ %1 = Base.xor_int(x1, x2)::Int8 │ %2 = Base.ctpop_int(%1)::Int8 │ %3 = Base.sext_int(Int64, %2)::Int64 │ nothing::Nothing └── return %3 ) => Int64

julia> @code_llvm hamming_distance(Int8(33), Int8(125)) ; Function Signature: hamming_distance(Int8, Int8) ; @ /Users/lunaticd/code/tiny-binary-rag/rag.jl:13 within `hamming_distance` define i64 @julia_hamming_distance_16366(i8 signext %"x1::Int8", i8 signext %"x2::Int8") #0 { top: ; @ /Users/lunaticd/code/tiny-binary-rag/rag.jl:14 within `hamming_distance` ; ┌ @ int.jl:373 within `xor` %0 = xor i8 %"x2::Int8", %"x1::Int8" ; └ ; ┌ @ int.jl:415 within `count_ones` %1 = call i8 @llvm.ctpop.i8(i8 %0) ; │┌ @ int.jl:549 within `rem` %2 = zext i8 %1 to i64 ; └└ ret i64 %2 }

it lowers to the machine instruction now.

I also tried 8 Int64s vs 64 Int8s and it doesn't seem to make a difference when doing the search.

EDIT: apologize for the formatting

Comment · 2 years ago
exact in this case means that all the vectors are compared against the query vector. Where as other search methods such as HNSW are approximate searches.
Comment · 2 years ago
author here. I thought there might be a machine instruction for this but wasn't sure, I also didn't know Julia had a count_ones that counted the 1s.

Thanks! With this the timings are even faster. I'll update the post.

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