Non-Metric Space Library Manual

Abstract

This document covers a library for fast similarity (k-NN)search. It describes only search methods and distances (spaces). Details about building, installing, Python bindings can be found online:https://github.com/searchivarius/nmslib/tree/v1.8/. Even though the library contains a variety of exact metric-space access methods, our main focus is on more generic and approximate search methods, in particular, on methods for non-metric spaces. NMSLIB is possibly the first library with a principled support for non-metric space searching.