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Adrien Grand commented on LUCENE-9614: -------------------------------------- I wonder if the Query could be just a map from N doc IDs to scores, and the KNN search would actually be run to construct the Query, not as part of running the Query. This way we could still blend scores via BooleanQuery or FeatureField, and even things like block-max WAND would still work. > Implement KNN Query > ------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-9614 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9614 > Project: Lucene - Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Michael Sokolov > Priority: Major > > Now we have a vector index format, and one vector indexing/KNN search > implementation, but the interface is low-level: you can search across a > single segment only. We would like to expose a Query implementation. > Initially, we want to support a usage where the KnnVectorQuery selects the > k-nearest neighbors without regard to any other constraints, and these can > then be filtered as part of an enclosing Boolean or other query. > Later we will want to explore some kind of filtering *while* performing > vector search, or a re-entrant search process that can yield further results. > Because of the nature of knn search (all documents having any vector value > match), it is more like a ranking than a filtering operation, and it doesn't > really make sense to provide an iterator interface that can be merged in the > usual way, in docid order, skipping ahead. It's not yet clear how to satisfy > a query that is "k nearest neighbors satsifying some arbitrary Query", at > least not without realizing a complete bitset for the Query. But this is for > a later issue; *this* issue is just about performing the knn search in > isolation, computing a set of (some given) K nearest neighbors, and providing > an iterator over those. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@lucene.apache.org