That sounds promising, Michael. Can you share scripts/steps/code to
reproduce this?

On Thu, 18 May, 2023, 1:16 pm Michael Wechner, <michael.wech...@wyona.com>
wrote:

> I just implemented it and tested it with OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002,
> which is using 1536 dimensions and it works very fine :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> Am 18.05.23 um 00:29 schrieb Michael Wechner:
>
> IIUC KnnVectorField is deprecated and one is supposed to use
> KnnFloatVectorField when using float as vector values, right?
>
> Am 17.05.23 um 16:41 schrieb Michael Sokolov:
>
> see https://markmail.org/message/kf4nzoqyhwacb7ri
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:09 AM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> > easily be circumvented by a user
>>
>> This is a revelation to me and others, if true.  Michael, please then
>> point to a test or code snippet that shows the Lucene user community what
>> they want to see so they are unblocked from their explorations of vector
>> search.
>>
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 7:51 AM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think I've said before on this list we don't actually enforce the
>>> limit in any way that can't easily be circumvented by a user. The codec
>>> already supports any size vector - it doesn't impose any limit. The way the
>>> API is written you can *already today* create an index with max-int sized
>>> vectors and we are committed to supporting that going forward by our
>>> backwards compatibility policy as Robert points out. This wasn't
>>> intentional, I think, but it is the facts.
>>>
>>> Given that, I think this whole discussion is not really necessary.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 4:50 AM Alessandro Benedetti <
>>> a.benede...@sease.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> we have finalized all the options proposed by the community and we are
>>>> ready to vote for the preferred one and then proceed with the
>>>> implementation.
>>>>
>>>> *Option 1*
>>>> Keep it as it is (dimension limit hardcoded to 1024)
>>>> *Motivation*:
>>>> We are close to improving on many fronts. Given the criticality of
>>>> Lucene in computing infrastructure and the concerns raised by one of the
>>>> most active stewards of the project, I think we should keep working toward
>>>> improving the feature as is and move to up the limit after we can
>>>> demonstrate improvement unambiguously.
>>>>
>>>> *Option 2*
>>>> make the limit configurable, for example through a system property
>>>> *Motivation*:
>>>> The system administrator can enforce a limit its users need to respect
>>>> that it's in line with whatever the admin decided to be acceptable for
>>>> them.
>>>> The default can stay the current one.
>>>> This should open the doors for Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch,
>>>> and any sort of plugin development
>>>>
>>>> *Option 3*
>>>> Move the max dimension limit lower level to a HNSW specific
>>>> implementation. Once there, this limit would not bind any other potential
>>>> vector engine alternative/evolution.
>>>> *Motivation:* There seem to be contradictory performance
>>>> interpretations about the current HNSW implementation. Some consider its
>>>> performance ok, some not, and it depends on the target data set and use
>>>> case. Increasing the max dimension limit where it is currently (in top
>>>> level FloatVectorValues) would not allow potential alternatives (e.g. for
>>>> other use-cases) to be based on a lower limit.
>>>>
>>>> *Option 4*
>>>> Make it configurable and move it to an appropriate place.
>>>> In particular, a simple Integer.getInteger("lucene.hnsw.maxDimensions",
>>>> 1024) should be enough.
>>>> *Motivation*:
>>>> Both are good and not mutually exclusive and could happen in any order.
>>>> Someone suggested to perfect what the _default_ limit should be, but
>>>> I've not seen an argument _against_ configurability.  Especially in this
>>>> way -- a toggle that doesn't bind Lucene's APIs in any way.
>>>>
>>>> I'll keep this [VOTE] open for a week and then proceed to the
>>>> implementation.
>>>> --------------------------
>>>> *Alessandro Benedetti*
>>>> Director @ Sease Ltd.
>>>> *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer*
>>>> *Apache Solr PMC Member*
>>>>
>>>> e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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