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Module vector

Module vector 

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Vector search: HNSW graph construction, search, and kNN queries.

See [[hierarchical-navigable-small-world]] and [[architecture-overview|milestone-4]].

Modules§

global
Single global HNSW per index per dense_vector field.
hnsw
HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) graph for approximate nearest neighbor search.
quantize
Scalar quantization for vector search.
query
KNN query: approximate nearest neighbor search via the index-wide global HNSW per [[global-vector-indices]] Alternative B.

Enums§

DistanceMetric
Distance metric for vector similarity.

Functions§

distance
Compute distance between two vectors.
distance_to_score
Convert a raw distance value to a score.
normalize_in_place
Normalize a vector to unit length in place.