Embeddings & Vector SearchSuhas Jayaram Subramanya et al. (Microsoft Research India, CMU)Microsoft ResearchCarnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Microsoft Research India and CMU present DiskANN

Presented DiskANN — an index of 1 billion points on a single workstation with 64 GB of RAM using the Vamana graph, with 5,000+ QPS and under 3 ms latency on SIFT1B

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An SSD-based ANN that broke HNSW's constraint of having to hold everything in memory

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