MSIRAug 22, 2015

Non-Metric Space Library Manual

arXiv:1508.05470v414 citationsHas Code
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This is an incremental development for researchers and practitioners needing efficient similarity search in non-metric spaces.

The paper presents NMSLIB, a library for fast similarity search, focusing on approximate methods for non-metric spaces, and claims it is possibly the first library with principled support for such spaces.

This document covers a library for fast similarity (k-NN)search. It describes only search methods and distances (spaces). Details about building, installing, Python bindings can be found online:https://github.com/searchivarius/nmslib/tree/v1.8/. Even though the library contains a variety of exact metric-space access methods, our main focus is on more generic and approximate search methods, in particular, on methods for non-metric spaces. NMSLIB is possibly the first library with a principled support for non-metric space searching.

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