vector.go

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//go:build vectors
// +build vectors

package index

type VectorField interface {
	Vector() []float32
	// Dimensionality of the vector
	Dims() int
	// Similarity metric to be used for scoring the vectors
	Similarity() string
	// nlist/nprobe config (recall/latency) the index is optimized for
	IndexOptimizedFor() string
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

const (
	EuclideanDistance = "l2_norm"

	InnerProduct = "dot_product"

	CosineSimilarity = "cosine"
)

const DefaultSimilarityMetric = EuclideanDistance

// Supported similarity metrics for vector fields
var SupportedSimilarityMetrics = map[string]struct{}{
	EuclideanDistance: {},
	InnerProduct:      {},
	CosineSimilarity:  {},
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

const (
	IndexOptimizedForRecall          = "recall"
	IndexOptimizedForLatency         = "latency"
	IndexOptimizedForMemoryEfficient = "memory-efficient"
)

const DefaultIndexOptimization = IndexOptimizedForRecall

var SupportedVectorIndexOptimizations = map[string]int{
	IndexOptimizedForRecall:          0,
	IndexOptimizedForLatency:         1,
	IndexOptimizedForMemoryEfficient: 2,
}

// Reverse maps vector index optimizations': int -> string
var VectorIndexOptimizationsReverseLookup = map[int]string{
	0: IndexOptimizedForRecall,
	1: IndexOptimizedForLatency,
	2: IndexOptimizedForMemoryEfficient,
}