Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds

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  • hnswlib

    Header-only C++/python library for fast approximate nearest neighbors

  • Actually the "ef" is not epsilon. It is a parameter of the HNSW index: https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib/blob/master/ALGO_PARAMS.md...

  • instant-distance

    Fast approximate nearest neighbor searching in Rust, based on HNSW index

  • https://github.com/instant-labs/instant-distance is a compact, fairly readable, pretty fast implementation of the paper in Rust.

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