# CLAM: Clustering, Learning and Approximation with Manifolds (v0.25.4)
The Rust implementation of CLAM.
As of writing this document, the project is still in a pre-1.0 state.
This means that the API is not yet stable and breaking changes may occur frequently.
## Usage
CLAM is a library crate so you can add it to your crate using `cargo add abd_clam@0.25.4`.
### Cakes: Nearest Neighbor Search
```rust
use abd_clam::{knn, rnn, Cakes, PartitionCriteria, VecDataset};
/// The distance function with with to perform clustering and search.
///
/// We use the `distances` crate for the distance function.
fn euclidean(x: &Vec<f32>, y: &Vec<f32>) -> f32 {
distances::simd::euclidean_f32(x, y)
}
/// Generate some random data. You can use your own data here.
///
/// CLAM can handle arbitrarily large datasets. We use a small one here for
/// demonstration.
///
/// We use the `symagen` crate for generating interesting datasets for examples
/// and tests.
let seed = 42;
let (cardinality, dimensionality) = (1_000, 10);
let (min_val, max_val) = (-1.0, 1.0);
let data: Vec<Vec<f32>> = symagen::random_data::random_tabular_seedable(
cardinality,
dimensionality,
min_val,
max_val,
seed,
);
// We will use the origin as our query.
let query: Vec<f32> = vec![0.0; dimensionality];
// RNN search will use a radius of 0.05.
let radius: f32 = 0.05;
// KNN search will find the 10 nearest neighbors.
let k = 10;
// The name of the dataset.
let name = "demo".to_string();
// We will assume that our distance function is cheap to compute.
let is_metric_expensive = false;
// The metric function itself will be given to Cakes.
let data = VecDataset::<Vec<f32>, f32>::new(
name,
data,
euclidean,
is_metric_expensive,
);
// We will use the default partition criteria for this example. This will partition
// the data until each Cluster contains a single unique point.
let criteria = PartitionCriteria::default();
// The Cakes struct provides the functionality described in the CHESS paper.
// We use a single shard here because the demo data is small.
let model = Cakes::new(data, Some(seed), &criteria);
// This line performs a non-trivial amount of work. #understatement
// At this point, the dataset has been reordered to improve search performance.
// We can now perform RNN search on the model.
let rnn_results: Vec<(usize, f32)> = model.rnn_search(
&query,
radius,
rnn::Algorithm::default(),
);
// We can also perform KNN search on the model.
let knn_results: Vec<(usize, f32)> = model.knn_search(
&query,
k,
knn::Algorithm::default(),
);
assert!(knn_results.len() == k);
// Both results are a Vec of 2-tuples where the first element is the index of
// the point in the dataset and the second element is the distance from the
// query point.
// TODO: Add snippets for saving/loading models.
```
### Chaoda: Anomaly Detection
TODO ...
## License
- MIT