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AtlasBarfed
on Jan 12, 2024
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Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]
ANNOY is essentially a binary space partition tree for points without having to worry about sets of points aka polygons?
fzliu
on Jan 12, 2024
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Like IVF, Annoy partitions the entire embedding space into high-dimensional polygons. The difference is how the two algorithms do it - IVF (
https://zilliz.com/learn/vector-index
) uses centroids, while Annoy (
https://zilliz.com/learn/approximate-nearest-neighbor-oh-yea...
) is basically just one big binary tree.
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