Summary of Locally-adaptive Quantization For Streaming Vector Search, by Cecilia Aguerrebere and Mark Hildebrand and Ishwar Singh Bhati and Theodore Willke and Mariano Tepper
Locally-Adaptive Quantization for Streaming Vector Search
by Cecilia Aguerrebere, Mark Hildebrand, Ishwar Singh Bhati, Theodore Willke, Mariano Tepper
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores Locally-Adaptive Vector Quantization (LVQ) in the context of streaming similarity search. LVQ is a highly efficient vector compression method that has achieved state-of-the-art search performance for non-evolving databases. However, its effectiveness in evolving databases has not been established until now. The authors introduce two improvements to LVQ: Turbo LVQ and multi-means LVQ, which boost search performance by up to 28% and 27%, respectively. Experimental results show that LVQ and its variants enable fast vector search, outperforming competitors by up to 9.4x for identical data distribution and 8.8x under distribution shifts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making it faster to find similar things in a big collection of vectors. This is important because many real-world applications need to do this, like searching for pictures or text. The authors are looking at a special way to make this process work better when the database is changing over time. They came up with two new ideas that improve the speed and accuracy of finding similar things by 28% and 27%. This means it can be much faster than before, especially when the data is changing. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Quantization
