Faiss: How to search the nearest with hamming distance rather than L2 distance?

Created on 9 May 2018  路  3Comments  路  Source: facebookresearch/faiss

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I want to search the nearest with the hamming distance.
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  • [ ] CPU
  • [ ] GPU

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picture Tony-Hou

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Is there a tutorial for hamming distance?

picture zhihuizheng on 7 Jan 2019
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Binary vectors are not fully supported yet. See
https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/blob/master/tests/test_index.py#L496
for a workaround, but it is not optimal.

mdouze picture mdouze on 9 May 2018

Binary vectors are supported now. Closing.

mdouze picture mdouze on 28 Aug 2018

Is there a tutorial for hamming distance?

zhihuizheng picture zhihuizheng on 7 Jan 2019
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