msokolov commented on a change in pull request #2022:
URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/2022#discussion_r518902276



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File path: lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/VectorValues.java
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@@ -74,6 +74,18 @@ public BytesRef binaryValue() throws IOException {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Return the k nearest neighbor documents as determined by comparison of 
their vector values
+   * for this field, to the given vector, by the field's search strategy. If 
the search strategy is
+   * reversed, lower values indicate nearer vectors, otherwise higher scores 
indicate nearer
+   * vectors. Unlike relevance scores, vector scores may be negative.
+   * @param target the vector-valued query
+   * @param k      the number of docs to return
+   * @param fanout control the accuracy/speed tradeoff - larger values give 
better recall at higher cost

Review comment:
       Yeah that's a good point. While experimenting with GloVe I'm learning 
that different settings are appropriate for different vectors, so field-level 
control might be needed. I'm not sure how codec-level controls are exposed. 
Don't Codecs get created automatically using no-args constructors and service 
autodiscovery? Did you mean something like perFieldVectorFormat? Except I doubt 
we need a new format; it's more about some metadata values that we would store 
in the field, so I think yeah it would go in FieldInfo. But I'm reluctant to 
expose hnsw-specific hyperparameters in `VectorField`, which we want to support 
other algorithms as well. Maybe this is a good use case for 
`IndexableField.getAttributes()`?




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