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annoy
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Do we think about vector dbs wrong?
The focus on the top 10 in vector search is a product of wanting to prove value over keyword search. Keyword search is going to miss some conceptual matches. You can try to work around that with tokenization and complex queries with all variations but it's not easy.
Vector search isn't all that new a concept. For example, the annoy library (https://github.com/spotify/annoy) has been around since 2014. It was one of the first open source approximate nearest neighbor libraries. Recommendations have always been a good use case for vector similarity.
Recommendations are a natural extension of search and transformers models made building the vectors for natural language possible. To prove the worth of vector search over keyword search, the focus was always on showing how the top N matches include results not possible with keyword search.
In 2023, there has been a shift towards acknowledging keyword search also has value and that a combination of vector + keyword search (aka hybrid search) operates in the sweet spot. Once again this is validated through the same benchmarks which focus on the top 10.
On top of all this, there is also the reality that the vector database space is very crowded and some want to use their performance benchmarks for marketing.
Disclaimer: I am the author of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai), an open source embeddings database
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Vector Databases 101
If you want to go larger you could still use some simple setup in conjunction with faiss, annoy or hnsw.
- I'm an undergraduate data science intern and trying to run kmodes clustering. Did this elbow method to figure out how many clusters to use, but I don't really see an "elbow". Tips on number of clusters?
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Calculating document similarity in a special domain
I then use annoy to compare them. Annoy can use different measures for distance, like cosine, euclidean and more
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Can Parquet file format index string columns?
Yes you can do this for equality predicates if your row groups are sorted . This blog post (that I didn't write) might add more color. You can't do this for any kind of text searching. If you need to do this with file based storage I'd recommend using a vector based text search and utilize a ANN index library like Annoy.
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[D]: Best nearest neighbour search for high dimensions
If you need large scale (1000+ dimension, millions+ source points, >1000 queries per second) and accept imperfect results / approximate nearest neighbors, then other people have already mentioned some of the best libraries (FAISS, Annoy).
- Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf]
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[R] Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input
Would be possible to further speed up the process with using something like ANNOY? https://github.com/spotify/annoy
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Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search
I like Faiss but I tried Spotify's annoy[1] for a recent project and was pretty impressed.
Since lots of people don't seem to understand how useful these embedding libraries are here's an example. I built a thing that indexes bouldering and climbing competition videos, then builds an embedding of the climber's body position per frame. I then can automatically match different climbers on the same problem.
It works pretty well. Since the body positions are 3D it works reasonably well across camera angles.
The biggest problem is getting the embedding right. I simplified it a lot above because I actually need to embed the problem shape itself because otherwise it matches too well: you get frames of people in identical positions but on different problems!
[1] https://github.com/spotify/annoy
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How to find "k" nearest embeddings in a space with a very large number of N embeddings (efficiently)?
If you just want quick in memory search then pynndescent is a decent option: it's easy to install, and easy to get running. Another good option is Annoy; it's just as easy to install and get running with python, but it is a little less performant if you want to do a lot of queries, or get a knn-graph quickly.
hnsqlite
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LangChain: The Missing Manual
For anyone thinking about applications of langchain and pinecone but who are looking for something more turn-key check out https://jiggy.ai
The core is actually open source as well, allowing you to take your data back out via sqlite and hnswlib (https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hnsqlite)
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I built an open source website that lets you upload large files, such as in-depth novels or academic papers, and ask ChatGPT questions based on your specific knowledge base. So far, I've tested it with long books like the Odyssey and random research papers that I like, and it works shockingly well.
We are built on open core https://github.com/jiggy-ai. Our open source hnsqlite is light weight, easy to use. And best of all, we make it easy for you to get your data out of JiggyBase. You can download a sqlite file that contains your document text data, metadata, embedding vectors, and embedding index. This can be used directly in the open source hnsqlite package.
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What Is a Vector Database
After working through several projects that utilized local hnswlib and different databases for text and vector persistence, I integrated open source hnswlib with sqlite to create an embedded vector search engine that can easily scale up to millions of embeddings. For self-hosted situations of under 10M embeddings and less than insane throughput I think this combo is hard to beat.
https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hnsqlite
- Show HN: Hnsqlite: hnswlib and SQLite integrated for text embedding search
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Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search
Thanks Leobg!
For anyone else: you pass it directly in metadata see https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hnsqlite/blob/main/test/test_col...
What are some alternatives?
faiss - A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.
langchainrb - Build LLM-powered applications in Ruby
hnswlib - Header-only C++/python library for fast approximate nearest neighbors
NeMo-Guardrails - NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.
implicit - Fast Python Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets
guidance - A guidance language for controlling large language models. [Moved to: https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance]
Milvus - A cloud-native vector database, storage for next generation AI applications
GPT4Memory
TensorRec - A TensorFlow recommendation algorithm and framework in Python.
raft - RAFT contains fundamental widely-used algorithms and primitives for machine learning and information retrieval. The algorithms are CUDA-accelerated and form building blocks for more easily writing high performance applications.
fastFM - fastFM: A Library for Factorization Machines
ann-benchmarks - Benchmarks of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python