Thanks!

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 11:50, Alessandro Benedetti <a.benede...@sease.io>
wrote:

> This class is probably your best bet:
> org.apache.lucene.index.VectorSimilarityFunction
> From here you can explore the java code used to calculate the vector
> similarities in Apache Solr.
>
> Cheers
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> On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 at 11:04, Frederic Font Corbera <frederic.f...@upf.edu
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Nevermind, I guess Solr computes cosine similarity and not cosine
> distance,
> > and the returned score is probably the cosine similarity value.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > frederic
> >
> >
> > --
> > Frederic Font - ffont.github.io
> > Music Technology Group, UPF - mtg.upf.edu <https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg/>
> > Freesound - freesound.org
> >
> >
> >
> > El ds, 27 gen. 2024 a les 11:57 Frederic Font Corbera <
> > frederic.f...@upf.edu>
> > va escriure:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I successfully added dense vector search to my Solr-based app, but I’d
> > > like to compare the results with other nn-search solutions and for that
> > > reason it would be good to have access to the actual distance values
> > > computer by Solr. This does not seem to be possible and I can only
> access
> > > the resulting “score”.  That score is of course related to the distance
> > > metric but I could not find information about how this relation works.
> In
> > > fact, cosine distance is, well, a distance metric (big
> values=dissimilar
> > > items), but the returned score is a “similarity” metric (big
> > values=similar
> > > items). So how does Solr transform the distance metric to a similarity
> > > metric? Is this documented somewhere?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > > frederic
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Frederic Font - ffont.github.io
> > > Music Technology Group, UPF - mtg.upf.edu <
> https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg/>
> > > Freesound - freesound.org
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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