lmcinnes / lmcinnes/pynndescent
Poor performance on ann-benchmarks
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Description
It seems a recent round of ann-benchmarks has seen pynndescent fail quite badly. It is not so much a performance degradation as being somewhat broken. I'm looking into it, but any help would be appreciated.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the reported failure in ann-benchmarks and compare it with current pynndescent behavior. Identify the cause of the broken benchmark results; done means the relevant ann-benchmarks case no longer fails badly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100