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SVS 0.2.0 Release Notes

Additions and Changes

  • IVF, including Dynamic IVF Index Implementation (#223), batch iterator in IVF (#247), Save/Load functionality with dense clusters (#260)

  • LeanVec OOD added to C++ Runtime Bindings (#264)

  • Addition of libsvs-runtime conda package for SVS C++ Runtime Bindings (#255)

  • Adds LVQ8x0 support to CPP Runtime API (#252)

  • Custom index block size enabled in C++ Runtime Bindings (#248)

SVS 0.1.0 Release Notes

Additions and Changes

  • Creation of SVS C++ Runtime Bindings package (#208)

  • Addition of libsvs conda and python packages along with existing tarballs

  • Added shared library support for Clang-20

  • LVQ8x8 support added to SVS python package

  • Fixes related to VamanaBuildParameters (#237) and unmasked AVX2 load (#239)

SVS 0.0.11 Release Notes

Additions and Changes

  • IVF support for SQDataset (#184), LVQ, and LeanVec

  • Added shared library support for gcc-14+

  • Various bug resolutions, fixes, and tooling support

SVS 0.0.10 Release Notes

Additions and Changes

  • Support for OpenMP threading (#170, #171, #172)

  • Enable Inverted File index (#156)

  • Resolution of inf/nan crashes in LVQ (#174)

  • SVS_LAZY update to address alpine issue (#175)

  • Updates to build parameter defaults (#176)

  • MKL symbols not exported from SVS libs

SVS 0.0.9 Release Notes

Additions and Changes

  • fix: Multi-vector dynamic vamana index Save/Load functionality (#162)
  • feature: save and load in flat index (#163)
  • fix: Handle corner in dynamic index with insufficient valid search results (#164)

SVS 0.0.8 Release Notes

Additions and Changes

  • Addition of 8-bit scalar quantization support to C++ interface

  • Introduced multi-vector index and batch iterator support that allows multiple vectors to be mapped to the same external ID

  • Automatic ISA dispatching with optimizations based on AVX support

  • Enabled compatibility with ARM and MacOS

  • Enhanced logging capabilities

  • Updated vamana iterator API

  • Broader shared library support:

    • gcc-11+, clang-18+, glibc 2.26+ compatibility

    • Static library provided in addition to .so

    • Intel(R) MKL linked within the shared library - no need for Intel(R) MKL in user environment

SVS 0.0.7 Release Notes

Additions and Changes

  • Implemented batch iterator support for hybrid search

  • Added support for custom threading and memory allocation

  • Introduced a timeout feature for search calls

  • Introduced reuse_empty flag in dynamic Vamana, enabling users to choose whether to reuse empty entries that may exist after deletion and consolidation

  • Enhanced heuristics in the Vamana construct to improve efficiency when adding a small number of points.

SVS 0.0.6 Release Notes

Please note that this repository only contains the open-source portion of the SVS library, which supports all functionalities and features described in the documentation, except for our proprietary vector compression techniques, specifically LVQ [ABHT23] and Leanvec [TBAH24]. These techniques are closed-source and supported exclusively on Intel hardware. We provide shared library and PyPI package to enable these vector compression techniques in C++ and Python, respectively.

SVS 0.0.4 Release Notes

Note that pysvs was changed to svs since this release.

Major Changes

Serialization Update

The serialization strategy for all SVS serialized objects has been updated from v0.0.1 to v0.0.2. In order to be compatible, all previously saved objects will need to be updated.

Updating can be done using the pysvs upgrade tool:

import pysvs
pysvs.upgrader.upgrade("path-to-save-directory")

Some notes about the upgrade process are given below.

  • If the object does not need upgrading, no changes will be made.

  • If the object does need upgrading, then only the TOML file will be modified. The upgrade tool fill first create a backup (by changing the extension to .backup.toml) and then attempt an upgrade.

    If the upgrade fails, please let the maintainers know so we can fix the upgrade tool.

    Furthermore, if a backup file already exists, the upgrade process will abort.

  • Objects upgraded to the v0.0.2 serialization format are forwards compatible. This means that they can still be loaded by older version of pysvs.

Why is this change needed?

This change is necessary to support efficient introspective loading, where serialized objects can be inspected for load compatibility. This, in turn, enables automatic loading of previously serialized SVS objects.

Build System and Testing

Included reference results for the Vamana index require Intel(R) MKL 2024.1 for reproducibility in testing. Linking against Intel(R) MKL 2023.X may cause LeanVec tests to fail.

Reference results for your version of Intel(R) MKL can be regenerated using

# Build the test generators
mkdir build
cd build
CC=gcc-11 CXX=g++-11 cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DSVS_BUILD_BENCHMARK_TEST_GENERATORS=YES -DSVS_EXPERIMENTAL_LEANVEC=YES
make -j

# Run the test generator executable.
./benchmark/svs_benchmark vamana_test_generator ../tools/benchmark_inputs/vamana/test-generator.toml vamana_reference.toml 5 ../data/test_dataset
cp ./vamana_reference ../data/test_dataset/reference/vamana_reference.toml

Logging Infrastructure

SVS has switched to using spdlog for its logging needs. As such, users will now have control of what messages get logged and where they are logged. The default interface for configuring logging is through the environment variables SVS_LOG_LEVEL and SVS_LOG_SINK. Valid values for SVS_LOG_LEVEL in order of increasing severity are shown below:

SVS_LOG_LEVEL Descriptions
TRACE Tracing control flow through functions. Verbose.
DEBUG Verbose logging useful for debugging. Verbose.
INFO Informative prints for long-running processed.
WARN (default) Diagnostic prints that may need to be addressed by the user.
ERROR Program errors.
CRITICAL Critical information.
OFF Disable logging.

Logging sinks control where logged message get sent and can be controlled using SVS_LOG_SINK with the following values.

SVS_LOG_SINK Description
stdout (default) Send all messages to stdout
stderr Send all messages to stderr
null Suppress all logging messages.
file:/path/to/file Send all messages to /path/to/file.

Additionally, both the C++ library and pysvs contain APIs for customizing logging that supersede the environment variables. In C++, any std::shared_ptr<spdlog::logger> can be used if desired.

Finally, if environment variable based initialization is not desired, it can be disabled by providing -DSVS_INITIALIZE_LOGGER=NO to CMake at configuration time.

Performance Enhancements

  • Generally improved the performance of uncompressed distance computations with run-time lengths for Intel(R) AVX-512 based systems.
  • Fixed a performance pathology for run-time dimensional sequential LVQ4(xN) when the number of dimensions is not a multiple of 16.

pysvs (Python)

Additions and Changes

  • Reloading a previously saved index no longer requires exact reconstruction of the original loader.

    Previously, if an index was constructed and saved using the following

    # Load data using online compression.
loader = pysvs.VectorDataLoader(...)
lvq = pysvs.LVQLoader(loader, primary = 4, residual = 8)

# Build the index.
parameters = pysvs.VamanaBuildParameters(...)
index = pysvs.Vamana.build(params, lvq, pysvs.L2, num_threads = 10)

# Save the result to three directories.
index.save("config", "graph", "data")

    Then the index must be reloaded using

    lvq = pysvs.LVQLoader("data", primary = 4, residual = 8)
index = pysvs.Vamana("config", pysvs.GraphLoader("graph"), lvq, distance = pysvs.L2)

    Now, the following will work

    index = pysvs.Vamana(
    "config",
    "graph",   # No longer need explicit `pysvs.GraphLoader`
    "data",    # SVS discovers this is LVQ data automatically
    distance = pysvs.L2
)

    To tailor the run-time parameters of reloaded data (for example, the strategy and padding used by LVQ), automatic inference of identifying parameters makes this easier:

    lvq = pysvs.LVQLoader(
    "data",   # Parameters `primary`, `residual`, and `dims` are discovered automatically
    strategy = pysvs.LVQStrategy.Sequential,
    padding = 0
)
index = pysvs.Vamana("config", "graph", loader)

  • The Vamana and DynamicVamana indexes now have a reconstruction interface. This has the form

    index = pysvs.Vamana(...)
vectors = index.reconstruct(I)

    where I is a arbitrary dimenaional numpy array of uint64 indices. This API returns reconstructed vectors as a numpy array with the shape

    vectors.shape == (*I.shape, index.dimensions())

    In particular, the following now works:

    I, D = index.search(...)
vectors = index.reconstruct(I)

    Requirements

    • For pysvs.Vamana the indices in I must all in [0, index.size()).
    • For pysvs.DynamicVamana, the in I must be in index.all_ids().

    Reconstruction Semantics

    • Uncompressed data is returned directly (potentially promoting to float32).
    • LVQ compressed data is reconstructed using this highest precision possible. For two level datasets, both levels will be used.
    • LeanVec datasets will reconstruct using the full-precision secondary dataset.

  • Added an upgrade tool pysvs.upgrader.upgrade to upgrade the serialization layout of SVS objects.

libsvs (C++)

Changes

  • Overhauled object loading. Context free classes should now accept a svs::lib::ContextFreeLoadTable and contextual classes should take a svs::lib::LoadTable.

    While most of the top level API remains unchanged, users are encouraged to look at the at the definitions of these classes in include/svs/lib/saveload/load.h to understand

    their capabilities and API.

  • Added a new optional loading function try_load -> svs::lib::Expected which tries to load an object from a table and fails gracefully without an exception if it cannot.

    This API enables discovery and matching of previously serialized object, allowing implementation of the auto-loading functionality in pysvs.

  • Added the following member functions to pysvs::Vamana and pysvs::DynamicVamana

    void reconstruct_at(svs::data::SimpleDataView<float> data, std::span<const uint64_t> ids);

    which will reconstruct the vector indices in ids into the destination data.

    See the description in the release notes for pysvs regarding the semantics of reconstruction.

  • Type erased orchestrators may now be compiled with support for multiple query types. For example,

    auto index = svs::Vamana::assemble<svs::lib::Types<svs::Float16, float>>(...);

    will compile an orchestrator capable of processing queries of either 16-bit or 32-bit floating values. The old syntax of

    auto index = svs::Vamana:assemble<float>(...);

    is still supported and yields an index capable of only processing a single query type.

    The augmented methods are given below:

    • svs::Vamana::assemble
    • svs::Vamana::build
    • svs::DynamicVamana::assemble
    • svs::DynamicVamana::build
    • svs::Flat::assemble

Object Serialization Changes

  • The implementation of two-level LVQ has changed from bitwise extension to true cascaded application of scalar quantization. See the discussion on this PR.

    Consequently, previously saved two-level LVQ datasets have had their serialization version incremented from v0.0.2 to v0.0.3 and will need to be regenerated.

  • The data structure svsbenchmark::vamana::BuildJob has been updated from v0.0.3 to v0.0.4. This change is backwards compatible, but users of this class are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.

    1. This change drops the search_window_size array and adds a field preset_parameters which must be an array of svs::index::vamana::VamanaSearchParameters. This is done to provide more fine-grained control of preset search parameters (including split-buffer, visited-set, and prefetching) more inline with svsbenchmark::vamana::SearchJob.

      Version v0.0.3 with search_window_size be compatible until the next minor version of SVS with the semantics of constructing a non-split-buffered svs::index::vamana::VamanaSearchParameters with no visited filter and no prefetching.

    2. Added a field save_directory into which the constructed index will be saved. This field can be left as the empty string to indicate that no saving is desired.

      The benchmarking framework will ensure that all requested save directories are unique and that the parents of the requested directories exist.

      Older serialization version will default to no saving.

    An example of the new format can be obtained by running

    ./svs_benchmark vamana_static_build --example

SVS 0.0.3 Release Notes

Highlighted Features

  • Turbo LVQ: A SIMD optimized layout for LVQ that can improve end-to-end search performance for LVQ-4 and LVQ-4x8 encoded datasets.

  • Split-buffer: An optimization that separates the search window size used during greedy search from the actual search buffer capacity. For datasets that use reranking (two-level LVQ and LeanVec), this allows more neighbors to be passed to the reranking phase without increasing the time spent in greedy search.

  • LeanVec dimensionality reduction is now included as an experimental feature! This two-level technique uses a linear transformation to generate a primary dataset with lower dimensionality than full precision vectors. The initial portion of a graph search is performed using this primary dataset, then uses the full precision secondary dataset to rerank candidates. Because of the reduced dimensionality, LeanVec can greatly accelerate index constructed for high-dimensional datasets.

    As an experimental feature, future changes to this API are expected. However, the implementation in this release is sufficient to enable experimenting with this technique on your own datasets!

New Dependencies

pysvs (Python)

Additions and Changes

  • Added the LeanVecLoader class as a dataset loader enabling use of LeanVec dimensionality reduction.

    The main constructor is shown below:

    pysvs.LeanVecLoader(
    loader: pysvs.VectorDataLoader,
    leanvec_dims: int,
    primary: pysvs.LeanVecKind = pysvs.LeanVecKind.lvq8,
    secondary: pysvs.LeanVecKind = pysvs.LeanVecKind.lvq8
)

    where:

    • loader is the loader for the uncompressed dataset.
    • leanvec_dims is the target reduced dimensionality of the primary dataset. This should be less than loader.dims to provide a performance boost.
    • primary is the encoding to use for the reduced-dimensionality dataset.
    • secondary is the encoding to use for the full-dimensionality dataset.

    Valid options for pysvs.LeanVecKind are: float16, float32, lvq4, lvq8.

    See the documentation for docstrings and an example.

  • Search parameters controlling recall and performance for the Vamana index are now set and queried through a pysvs.VamanaSearchParameters configuration class. The layout of this class is as follows:

    class VamanaSearchParameters

Parameters controlling recall and performance of the VamanaIndex.
See also: `Vamana.search_parameters`.

Attributes:
    buffer_config (`pysvs.SearchBufferConfig`, read/write): Configuration state for the
        underlying search buffer.
    search_buffer_visited_set (bool, read/write): Enable/disable status of the search
        buffer visited set.

    with pysvs.SearchBufferConfig defined by

    class pysvs.SearchBufferConfig

Size configuration for the Vamana index search buffer.
See also: `pysvs.VamanSearchParameters`, `pysvs.Vamana.search_parameters`.

Attributes:
    search_window_size (int, read-only): The number of valid entries in the buffer
        that will be used to determine stopping conditions for graph search.
    search_buffer_capacity (int, read-only): The (expected) number of valid entries that
        will be available. Must be at least as large as `search_window_size`.

    Example usage is shown below.

    index = pysvs.Vamana(...);
# Get the current parameters of the index.
parameters = index.search_parameters
print(parameters)
# Possible Output: VamanaSearchParameters(
#    buffer_config = SearchBufferConfig(search_window_size = 0, total_capacity = 0),
#    search_buffer_visited_set = false
# )

# Update our local copy of the search parameters
parameters.buffer_config = pysvs.SearchBufferConfig(10, 20)
# Assign the modified parameters to the index. Future searches will be affected.
index.search_parameters = parameters

  • Split search buffer for the Vamana search index. This is achieved by using different values for the search_window_size and search_buffer_capacity fields of the pysvs.SearchBufferConfig class described above.

    An index configured this way will maintain more entries in its search buffer while still terminating search relatively early. For implementation like two-level LVQ that use reranking, this can boost recall without significantly increasing the effective search window size.

    For uncompressed indexes that do not use reranking, split-buffer can be used to decrease the search window size lower than the requested number of neighbors (provided the capacity is at least the number of requested neighbors). This enables continued trading of recall for search performance.

  • Added pysvs.LVQStrategy for picking between different flavors of LVQ. The values and meanings are given below.

    • Auto: Let pysvs decide from among the available options.
    • Sequential: Use the original implementation of LVQ which bit-packs subsequent vector elements sequentially in memory.
    • Turbo: Use an experimental implementation of LVQ that permutes the packing of subsequent vector elements to permit faster distance computations.

    The selection of strategy can be given using the strategy keyword argument of pysvs.LVQLoader and defaults to pysvs.LVQStrategy.Auto.

  • Index construction and loading methods will now list the registered index specializations.

  • Assigning the padding keyword to LVQLoader will now be respected when reloading a previously saved LVQ dataset.

  • Changed the implementation of the greedy-search visited set to be effective when operating in the high-recall/high-neighbors regime. It can be enabled with:

    index = pysvs.Vamana(...)
p = index.search_parameters
p.search_buffer_visited_set = True
index.search_parameters = p

Experimental Features

Features marked as experimental are subject to rapid API changes, improvement, and removal.

  • Added the experimental_backend_string read-only parameter to pysvs.Vamana to aid in recording and debugging the backend implementation.

  • Introduced pysvs.Vamana.experimental_calibrate to aid in selecting the best runtime performance parameters for an index to achieve a desired recall.

    This feature can be used as follows:

    # Create an index
index = pysvs.Vamana(...)
# Load queries and groundtruth
queries = pysvs.read_vecs(...)
groundtruth = pysvs.read_vecs(...)
# Optimize the runtime state of the index for 0.90 10-recall-at-10
index.experimental_calibrate(queries, groundtruth, 10, 0.90)

    See the documentation for a more detailed explanation.

Deprecations

  • Versions 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 of VamanaConfigParameters (the top-level configuration file for the Vamana index) are deprecated. The current version is now v0.0.3. Older versions will continue to work until the next minor release of SVS.

    To upgrade, use the convert_legacy_vamana_index binary utility described below.

  • The attribute pysvs.Vamana.visisted_set_enabled is deprecated and will be removed in the next minor release of SVS. It is being replaced with pysvs.Vamana.search_parameters.

  • The LVQ loader classes pysvs.LVQ4, pysvs.LVQ8, pysvs.LVQ4x4, pysvs.LVQ4x8 and pysvs.LVQ8x8 are deprecated in favor of a single class pysvs.LVQLoader. This class has similar arguments to the previous family, but encodes the number of bits for the primary and residual datasets as run-time values.

    For example,

    # Old
loader = pysvs.LVQ4x4("dataset", dims = 768, padding = 32)
# New
loader = pysvs.LVQLoader("dataset", primary = 4, residual = 4, dims = 768, padding = 32)

  • Version v0.0.2 of serialized LVQ datasets is broken, the current version is now v0.0.3. This change was made to facilitate a canonical on-disk representation of LVQ.

    Going forward, previously saved LVQ formats can be reloaded using different runtime alignments and different packing strategies without requiring whole dataset recompression.

    Any previously saved datasets will need to be regenerated from uncompressed data.

Build System Changes

Building pysvs using cibuildwheel now requires a custom docker container with Intel(R) MKL. To build the container, run the following commands:

cd ./docker/x86_64/manylinux2014/
./build.sh

libsvs (C++)

Changes

  • Added svs::index::vamana::VamanaSearchParameters and svs::index::vamana::SearchBufferConfig. The latter contains parameters for the search buffer sizing while the former groups all algorithmic and performance parameters of search together in a single class.

  • API addition of get_search_parameters() and set_search_parameters() to svs::Vamana and svs::DynamicVamana as the new API for getting and setting all search parameters.

  • Introducing split-buffer for the search buffer (see description in the Python section) to potentially increase recall when using reranking.

  • Overhauled LVQ implementation, adding an additional template parameter to lvq::CompressedVectorBase and friends. This parameter assumes the following types:

    • lvq::Sequential: Store dimension encodings sequentially in memory. This corresponds to the original LVQ implementation.

    • lvq::Turbo<size_t Lanes, size_t ElementsPerLane>: Use a SIMD optimized format, optimized to use Lanes SIMD lanes, storing ElementsPerLane. Selection of these parameters requires some knowledge of the target hardware and appropriate overloads for decompression and distance computation.

      Accelerated methods require Intel(R) AVX-512 and are:

      • L2, IP, and decompression for LVQ 4 and LVQ 4x8 using Turbo<16, 8> (targeting Intel(R) AVX-512)
      • L2, IP, and decompression for LVQ 8 using Turbo<16, 4>.

  • Added the following member function to svs::lib::LoadContext:

    /// Return the given relative path as a full path in the loading directory.
std::filesystem::path LoadContext::resolve(const std::filesystem::path& relative) const;

/// Return the relative path in `table` at position `key` as a full path.
std::filesystem::path resolve(const toml::table& table, std::string_view key) const;

  • Context-free saveable/loadable classes can now be saved/loaded directly from a TOML file without a custom directory using svs::lib::save_to_file and svs::lib::load_from_file.

  • Distance functors can prevent missing svs::distance::maybe_fix_arguments() calls into hard errors by defining

    static constexpr bool must_fix_argument = true;

    in the class definition. Without this, svs::distance::maybe_fix_argument() will SFINAE away if a suitable fix_argument() member function is not found (the original behavior).

  • The namespace svs::lib::meta has been removed. All entities previously defined there are now in svs::lib.

  • Added a new Database file type. This file type will serve as a prototype for SSD-style data base files and is implemented in a way that can be extended by concrete implementations.

    This file has magic number 0x26b0644ab838c3a3 and contains a 16-byte UUID, 8-byte kind tag, and 24-byte version number. The 8-byte kind is the extension point that concrete implementations can use to define their own concrete implementations.

  • Changed the implementation of the greedy search visited set to svs::index::vamana::VisitedFilter. This is a fuzzy associative data structure that may return false negatives (marking a neighbor as not visited when it has been visited) but has very fast lookups.

    When operating in the very high-recall/number of neighbors regime, enabling the visited set can yield performance improvements.

    It can be enabled with the following code:

    svs::Vamana index = /*initialize*/;
auto p = index.get_search_parameters();
p.search_buffer_visited_set(true);
index.set_search_parameters(p);

Deprecations

  • The member functions visited_set_enabled, enable_visited_set, and disable_visited_set for svs::Vamana and svs::DynamicVamana are deprecated and will be removed in the next minor release of SVS.
  • The class svs::index::vamana::VamanaConfigParameters has been renamed to svs::index::vamana::VamanaIndexParameters and its serialization version has been incremented to v0.0.3. Versions 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 will be compatible until the next minor release of SVS. Use the binary utility convert_lebacy_vamana_index_config to upgrade.
  • Version v0.0.2 of svs::quantization::lvq::LVQDataset has been upgraded to v0.0.3 in a non-backward-compatible way. To facilitate a canonical on-disk representation of LVQ.

Binary Utilities

  • Added convert_legacy_vamana_index_config to upgrade Vamana index configuration file from version 0.0.1 or 0.0.2 to 0.0.3.

  • Removed generate_vamana_config which created a Vamana index config file from extremely legacy formats.

Testing

  • Reference data for integration tests has been migrated to auto-generation from the benchmarking framework.

Build System

The CMake variables were added.

  • SVS_EXPERIMENTAL_LEANVEC: Enable LeanVec support, which requires Intel(R) MKL as a dependency.

    • Default (SVS, SVSBenchmark): OFF
    • Default (pysvs): ON

  • SVS_EXPERIMENTAL_CUSTOM_MKL: Use Intel(R) MKL's custom shared object builder to create a minimal library to be installed with SVS. This enables relocatable builds to systems that do not have Intel(R) MKL installed and removes the need for Intel(R) MKL runtime environment variables.

    With this feature disabled, SVS builds against the system's Intel(R) MKL.

    • Default (SVS, SVSBenchmark): OFF
    • Default (pysvs): ON

SVS 0.0.2 Release Notes

pysvs (Python)

  • Deprecated num_threads keyword argument from pysvs.VamanaBuildParameters and added num_threads keyword to pysvs.Vamana.build.
  • Exposed the prune_to parameter for pysvs.VamanaBuildParameters (see description below for an explanation of this change).
  • Added preliminary support for building pysvs.Flat and pysvs.Vamana directly from np.float16 arrays.

libsvs (C++)

Breaking Changes

  • Removed nthreads member of VamanaBuildParameters and added the number of threads as an argument to svs::Vamana::build/svs::Vamana::build.
  • Added a prune_to argument to VamanaBuildParameters. This can be set to a value less than graph_max_degree (heuristically, setting this to be 4 less is a good trade-off between accuracy and speed). When pruning is performed, this parameter is used to determine the number of candidates to generate after pruning. Setting this less than graph_max_degree greatly reduces the time spent when managing backedges.
  • Improved pruning rules for Euclidean and InnerProduct. Vamana index construction should be faster and yield slightly improved indexes.
  • Added an experimental external-threading interface to svs::index::VamanaIndex.
  • Overhauled extension mechanisms using a tag_invoke style approach. This decouples the svs::index::VamanaIndex implementation from extensions like LVQ, reducing header dependence and improving precision of algorithm customization.

Save/Load API

  • Enabled context-free saving and loading of simple data structures. This allows simple data structures to be saved and reloaded from TOML files without requiring access to the saving/loading directory. Classes implementing this saving and loading allow for more flexible storage.
  • Overhauled the implementation of saving and loading to enable more scalable implementation.
  • svs::data::SimpleData family of data structures are now directly saveable and loadable and no longer require proxy-classes.

Breaking Serialization Changes

  • Changed LVQ-style datasets from v0.0.1 to v0.0.2: Removed centroids from being stored with the ScaledBiasedCompressedDataset. Centroids are now stored in the higher level LVQ dataset.

Back-end Changes

Changes to library internals that do not necessarily affect the top level API but could affect performance or users relying on internal APIs.

  • Improved the performance of the LVQ inner-product implementation.
  • Moved dynamic uispatcher from the Python bindings into libsvs.
  • Data structure loading has been augmented with the svs::lib::Lazy class, allowing for arbitrary deferred work to be executed when loading data structures.
  • Removed the old "access mode" style API for multi-level datasets, instead using tag_invoke for customization.
  • Reduced binary footprint by removing std::function use for general multi-threaded functions.
  • Updated ANNException to use fmtlib style message directly rather than std::ostream style overloading. The new syntax turns 
    ANNEXCEPTION("Expected ", a, ", got ", b, "!");
    to 
    ANNEXCEPTION("Expected {}, got {}!", a, b);

Binaries and Utilities

  • Added a benchmarking framework in /benchmark to automatically run and aggregate index construction and search for large scale benchmarks. Documentation is currently sparse but planned.

Third Party

  • Bump fmtlib from 9.1.0 to 10.1.1.