vicinity 0.3.2__tar.gz → 0.3.3__tar.gz

{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.1
 Name: vicinity
-Version: 0.3.2
+Version: 0.3.3
 Summary: Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Backends
 Author-email: Stéphan Tulkens <stephantul@gmail.com>, Thomas van Dongen <thomas123@live.nl>
 License: MIT License
@@ -153,10 +153,14 @@ vicinity = Vicinity.from_vectors_and_items(
 query_vector = np.random.rand(128)
 
 # Query for nearest neighbors with a top-k search
-results = vicinity.query([query_vector], k=3)
+results = vicinity.query(query_vector, k=3)
 
 # Query for nearest neighbors with a threshold search
-results = vicinity.query_threshold([query_vector], threshold=0.9)
+results = vicinity.query_threshold(query_vector, threshold=0.9)
+
+# Query with a list of query vectors
+query_vectors = np.random.rand(5, 128)
+results = vicinity.query(query_vectors, k=3)
 ```
 
 Saving and loading a vector store:
@@ -191,7 +195,7 @@ The following backends are supported:
 - [HNSW](https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib): Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graph (HNSW) for ANN search using hnswlib.
 - [USEARCH](https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch): ANN search using Usearch. This uses a highly optimized version of the HNSW algorithm.
 - [ANNOY](https://github.com/spotify/annoy): "Approximate Nearest Neighbors Oh Yeah" for approximate nearest neighbor search.
-- [PYNNDescent](https://github.com/lmcinnes/pynndescent): ANN search using PyNNDescent.
+- [PYNNDESCENT](https://github.com/lmcinnes/pynndescent): ANN search using PyNNDescent.
 - [FAISS](https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss): All FAISS indexes are supported:
   - `flat`: Exact search.
   - `ivf`: Inverted file search.
@@ -213,6 +217,7 @@ NOTE: the ANN backends do not support dynamic deletion. To delete items, you nee
 
 | Backend         | Parameter           | Description                                                                                   | Default Value       |
 |-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|
+| **BASIC**       | `metric`            | Similarity metric to use (`cosine`, `euclidean`).                                             | `"cosine"`          |
 | **ANNOY**       | `metric`            | Similarity metric to use (`dot`, `euclidean`, `cosine`).                                      | `"cosine"`          |
 |                 | `trees`             | Number of trees to use for indexing.                                                          | `100`               |
 |                 | `length`            | Optional length of the dataset.                                                               | `None`              |

{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/README.md

@@ -71,10 +71,14 @@ vicinity = Vicinity.from_vectors_and_items(
 query_vector = np.random.rand(128)
 
 # Query for nearest neighbors with a top-k search
-results = vicinity.query([query_vector], k=3)
+results = vicinity.query(query_vector, k=3)
 
 # Query for nearest neighbors with a threshold search
-results = vicinity.query_threshold([query_vector], threshold=0.9)
+results = vicinity.query_threshold(query_vector, threshold=0.9)
+
+# Query with a list of query vectors
+query_vectors = np.random.rand(5, 128)
+results = vicinity.query(query_vectors, k=3)
 ```
 
 Saving and loading a vector store:
@@ -109,7 +113,7 @@ The following backends are supported:
 - [HNSW](https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib): Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graph (HNSW) for ANN search using hnswlib.
 - [USEARCH](https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch): ANN search using Usearch. This uses a highly optimized version of the HNSW algorithm.
 - [ANNOY](https://github.com/spotify/annoy): "Approximate Nearest Neighbors Oh Yeah" for approximate nearest neighbor search.
-- [PYNNDescent](https://github.com/lmcinnes/pynndescent): ANN search using PyNNDescent.
+- [PYNNDESCENT](https://github.com/lmcinnes/pynndescent): ANN search using PyNNDescent.
 - [FAISS](https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss): All FAISS indexes are supported:
   - `flat`: Exact search.
   - `ivf`: Inverted file search.
@@ -131,6 +135,7 @@ NOTE: the ANN backends do not support dynamic deletion. To delete items, you nee
 
 | Backend         | Parameter           | Description                                                                                   | Default Value       |
 |-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|
+| **BASIC**       | `metric`            | Similarity metric to use (`cosine`, `euclidean`).                                             | `"cosine"`          |
 | **ANNOY**       | `metric`            | Similarity metric to use (`dot`, `euclidean`, `cosine`).                                      | `"cosine"`          |
 |                 | `trees`             | Number of trees to use for indexing.                                                          | `100`               |
 |                 | `length`            | Optional length of the dataset.                                                               | `None`              |

{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/tests/conftest.py

@@ -110,6 +110,6 @@ def vicinity_instance_with_stored_vectors(
 
 
 @pytest.fixture()
-def vicinity_with_basic_backend(vectors: np.ndarray, items: list[str]) -> Vicinity:
+def vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store(vectors: np.ndarray, items: list[str]) -> Vicinity:
     """Fixture providing a BasicBackend instance."""
     return Vicinity.from_vectors_and_items(vectors, items, backend_type=Backend.BASIC, store_vectors=True)

{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/tests/test_vicinity.py

@@ -154,25 +154,25 @@ def test_vicinity_save_and_load_vector_store(tmp_path: Path, vicinity_instance_w
     assert v.vector_store is not None
 
 
-def test_index_vector_store(vicinity_with_basic_backend: Vicinity, vectors: np.ndarray) -> None:
+def test_index_vector_store(vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store: Vicinity, vectors: np.ndarray) -> None:
     """
     Index vectors in the Vicinity instance.
 
     :param vicinity_instance: A Vicinity instance.
     :param vectors: Array of vectors to index.
     """
-    v = vicinity_with_basic_backend.get_vector_by_index(0)
+    v = vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.get_vector_by_index(0)
     assert np.allclose(v, vectors[0])
 
     idx = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10]
-    v = vicinity_with_basic_backend.get_vector_by_index(idx)
+    v = vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.get_vector_by_index(idx)
     assert np.allclose(v, vectors[idx])
 
     with pytest.raises(ValueError):
-        vicinity_with_basic_backend.get_vector_by_index([10_000])
+        vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.get_vector_by_index([10_000])
 
     with pytest.raises(ValueError):
-        vicinity_with_basic_backend.get_vector_by_index([-1])
+        vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.get_vector_by_index([-1])
 
 
 def test_vicinity_insert_duplicate(vicinity_instance: Vicinity, query_vector: np.ndarray) -> None:
@@ -203,6 +203,35 @@ def test_vicinity_delete_nonexistent(vicinity_instance: Vicinity) -> None:
         vicinity_instance.delete(["item10002"])
 
 
+def test_vicinity_insert_with_store(vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store: Vicinity) -> None:
+    """
+    Test that Vicinity.insert raises ValueError when trying to insert vectors into a Vicinity instance with stored vectors.
+
+    :param vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store: A Vicinity instance with stored vectors.
+    """
+    new_item = ["item10002"]
+    new_vector = np.full((1, vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.dim), 0.5)
+
+    vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.insert(new_item, new_vector)
+    assert vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.vector_store is not None
+    assert len(vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store) == len(vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.vector_store)
+
+
+def test_vicinity_delete_with_store(vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store: Vicinity) -> None:
+    """
+    Test Vicinity.delete method by verifying that the vector for a deleted item is not returned in subsequent queries.
+
+    :param vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store: A Vicinity instance.
+    """
+    assert vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.vector_store is not None
+    # Delete "item2" from the Vicinity instance
+    vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.delete(["item2"])
+
+    # Ensure "item2" is no longer in the items list
+    assert "item2" not in vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.items
+    assert len(vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store) == len(vicinity_with_basic_backend_and_store.vector_store)
+
+
 def test_vicinity_insert_mismatched_lengths(vicinity_instance: Vicinity, query_vector: np.ndarray) -> None:
     """
     Test that Vicinity.insert raises ValueError when tokens and vectors lengths do not match.

{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/uv.lock

@@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ wheels = [
 
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 name = "vicinity"
-version = "0.3.0"
+version = "0.3.1"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "numpy" },
@@ -1105,6 +1105,7 @@ all = [
     { name = "numpy" },
     { name = "pynndescent" },
     { name = "usearch" },
+    { name = "voyager" },
 ]
 annoy = [
     { name = "annoy" },
@@ -1134,6 +1135,9 @@ pynndescent = [
 usearch = [
     { name = "usearch" },
 ]
+voyager = [
+    { name = "voyager" },
+]
 
 [package.metadata]
 requires-dist = [
@@ -1164,6 +1168,8 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "tqdm" },
     { name = "usearch", marker = "extra == 'all'" },
     { name = "usearch", marker = "extra == 'usearch'" },
+    { name = "voyager", marker = "extra == 'all'" },
+    { name = "voyager", marker = "extra == 'voyager'" },
 ]
 
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{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/vicinity/version.py

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-__version_triple__ = (0, 3, 2)
+__version_triple__ = (0, 3, 3)
 __version__ = ".".join(map(str, __version_triple__))

{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/vicinity/vicinity.py

@@ -243,6 +243,8 @@ class Vicinity:
                 raise ValueError(f"Token {token} is already in the vector space.")
             self.items.append(token)
         self.backend.insert(vectors)
+        if self.vector_store is not None:
+            self.vector_store.insert(vectors)
 
     def delete(self, tokens: Sequence[str]) -> None:
         """
@@ -260,6 +262,8 @@ class Vicinity:
             raise ValueError(f"Token {exc} was not in the vector space.") from exc
 
         self.backend.delete(curr_indices)
+        if self.vector_store is not None:
+            self.vector_store.delete(curr_indices)
 
         # Delete items starting from the highest index
         for index in sorted(curr_indices, reverse=True):

{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/vicinity.egg-info/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.1
 Name: vicinity
-Version: 0.3.2
+Version: 0.3.3
 Summary: Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Backends
 Author-email: Stéphan Tulkens <stephantul@gmail.com>, Thomas van Dongen <thomas123@live.nl>
 License: MIT License
@@ -153,10 +153,14 @@ vicinity = Vicinity.from_vectors_and_items(
 query_vector = np.random.rand(128)
 
 # Query for nearest neighbors with a top-k search
-results = vicinity.query([query_vector], k=3)
+results = vicinity.query(query_vector, k=3)
 
 # Query for nearest neighbors with a threshold search
-results = vicinity.query_threshold([query_vector], threshold=0.9)
+results = vicinity.query_threshold(query_vector, threshold=0.9)
+
+# Query with a list of query vectors
+query_vectors = np.random.rand(5, 128)
+results = vicinity.query(query_vectors, k=3)
 ```
 
 Saving and loading a vector store:
@@ -191,7 +195,7 @@ The following backends are supported:
 - [HNSW](https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib): Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graph (HNSW) for ANN search using hnswlib.
 - [USEARCH](https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch): ANN search using Usearch. This uses a highly optimized version of the HNSW algorithm.
 - [ANNOY](https://github.com/spotify/annoy): "Approximate Nearest Neighbors Oh Yeah" for approximate nearest neighbor search.
-- [PYNNDescent](https://github.com/lmcinnes/pynndescent): ANN search using PyNNDescent.
+- [PYNNDESCENT](https://github.com/lmcinnes/pynndescent): ANN search using PyNNDescent.
 - [FAISS](https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss): All FAISS indexes are supported:
   - `flat`: Exact search.
   - `ivf`: Inverted file search.
@@ -213,6 +217,7 @@ NOTE: the ANN backends do not support dynamic deletion. To delete items, you nee
 
 | Backend         | Parameter           | Description                                                                                   | Default Value       |
 |-----------------|---------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|
+| **BASIC**       | `metric`            | Similarity metric to use (`cosine`, `euclidean`).                                             | `"cosine"`          |
 | **ANNOY**       | `metric`            | Similarity metric to use (`dot`, `euclidean`, `cosine`).                                      | `"cosine"`          |
 |                 | `trees`             | Number of trees to use for indexing.                                                          | `100`               |
 |                 | `length`            | Optional length of the dataset.                                                               | `None`              |

{vicinity-0.3.2 → vicinity-0.3.3}/vicinity/backends/basic.py

@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ class BasicVectorStore:
         self._vectors = matrix
         self._update_precomputed_data()
 
+    def __len__(self) -> int:
+        """Get the number of vectors."""
+        return self.vectors.shape[0]
+
 
 class BasicBackend(BasicVectorStore, AbstractBackend[BasicArgs], ABC):
     argument_class = BasicArgs
@@ -100,10 +104,6 @@ class BasicBackend(BasicVectorStore, AbstractBackend[BasicArgs], ABC):
         """Initialize the backend."""
         super().__init__(vectors=vectors, arguments=arguments)
 
-    def __len__(self) -> int:
-        """Get the number of vectors."""
-        return self.vectors.shape[0]
-
     @property
     def backend_type(self) -> Backend:
         """The type of the backend."""