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How to Install Google Scalable Nearest Neighbors (ScaNN) on Mac

Eugene Yan 14 October 2020, 00:00

Google's ScaNN library for efficient vector similarity search achieves over 2x throughput improvement for a given recall level on angular distance benchmarks. The installation on Mac requires manual fixes to configuration files and build settings, with the complete build process taking approximately 316 seconds. Successfully installing ScaNN enables developers to perform scalable nearest neighbor search operations in their Python applications.

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