Re: Vamana greedy search variant

2023-08-05 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Hi Jim, thanks for taking a look. Yes, it's quite possible that replacing HNSW entirely with FreshDiskANN-style Vamana would make sense. I started with this approach in part to better understand how much difference there was in applying a Vamana pass to just using the HNSW level 0. (It's still

Re: Vamana greedy search variant

2023-08-05 Thread jim ferenczi
Hi Jonathan, Could you provide further clarification on your goal? The current description is unclear. Why construct an HNSW graph only to 'optimize' it into a Vamana graph? Why not directly build a Vamana graph? This paper provides guidance for streaming