This directory contains benchmarking scripts that can reproduce the numbers reported in the two papers
@inproceedings{DJP16,
Author = {Douze, Matthijs and J{\'e}gou, Herv{\'e} and Perronnin, Florent},
Booktitle = "ECCV",
Organization = {Springer},
Title = {Polysemous codes},
Year = {2016}
}
and
@inproceedings{JDJ17,
Author = {Jeff Johnson and Matthijs Douze and Herv{\'e} J{\'e}gou},
journal= {arXiv:1702.08734},,
Title = {Billion-scale similarity search with GPUs},
Year = {2017},
}
Note that the numbers (especially timings) change slightly due to changes in the implementation, different machines, etc.
The scripts are self-contained. They depend only on Faiss and external training data that should be stored in sub-directories.
The script bench_polysemous_sift1m.py reproduces the numbers in
Figure 3 from the "Polysemous" paper.
To run it, please download the ANN_SIFT1M dataset from
http://corpus-texmex.irisa.fr/
and unzip it to the subdirectory sift1M.
The output looks like:
PQ training on 100000 points, remains 0 points: training polysemous on centroids
add vectors to index
PQ baseline 7.517 ms per query, R@1 0.4474
Polysemous 64 9.875 ms per query, R@1 0.4474
Polysemous 62 8.358 ms per query, R@1 0.4474
Polysemous 58 5.531 ms per query, R@1 0.4474
Polysemous 54 3.420 ms per query, R@1 0.4478
Polysemous 50 2.182 ms per query, R@1 0.4475
Polysemous 46 1.621 ms per query, R@1 0.4408
Polysemous 42 1.448 ms per query, R@1 0.4174
Polysemous 38 1.331 ms per query, R@1 0.3563
Polysemous 34 1.334 ms per query, R@1 0.2661
Polysemous 30 1.272 ms per query, R@1 0.1794
The script bench_polysemous_1bn.py reproduces a few experiments on
two datasets of size 1B from the Polysemous codes" paper.
Download the four files of ANN_SIFT1B from http://corpus-texmex.irisa.fr/ to subdirectory bigann/
The ground-truth and queries are available here
https://yadi.sk/d/11eDCm7Dsn9GA
For the learning and database vectors, use the script
https://github.com/arbabenko/GNOIMI/blob/master/downloadDeep1B.py
to download the data to subdirectory deep1b/, then concatenate the database files to base.fvecs and the training files to learn.fvecs
These experiments are quite long. To support resuming, the script
stores the result of training to a temporary directory, /tmp/bench_polysemous.
The script bench_polysemous_1bn.py takes at least two arguments:
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the dataset name: SIFT1000M (aka SIFT1B, aka BIGANN) or Deep1B. SIFT1M, SIFT2M,... are also supported to make subsets of for small experiments (note that SIFT1M as a subset of SIFT1B is not the same as the SIFT1M above)
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the type of index to build, which should be a valid index_factory key (see below for examples)
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the remaining arguments are parsed as search-time parameters.
The IMI*+PolyD+ADC results in Table 2 can be reproduced with (for 16 bytes):
python bench_polysemous_1bn.par SIFT1000M IMI2x12,PQ16 nprobe=16,max_codes={10000,30000},ht={44..54}
Training takes about 2 minutes and adding vectors to the dataset takes 3.1 h. These operations are multithreaded. Note that in the command above, we use bash's brace expansion to set a grid of parameters.
The search is not multithreaded, and the output looks like:
R@1 R@10 R@100 time %pass
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=44 0.1779 0.2994 0.3139 0.194 12.45
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=45 0.1859 0.3183 0.3339 0.197 14.24
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=46 0.1930 0.3366 0.3543 0.202 16.22
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=47 0.1993 0.3550 0.3745 0.209 18.39
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=48 0.2033 0.3694 0.3917 0.640 20.77
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=49 0.2070 0.3839 0.4077 0.229 23.36
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=50 0.2101 0.3949 0.4205 0.232 26.17
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=51 0.2120 0.4042 0.4310 0.239 29.21
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=52 0.2134 0.4113 0.4402 0.245 32.47
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=53 0.2157 0.4184 0.4482 0.250 35.96
nprobe=16,max_codes=10000,ht=54 0.2170 0.4240 0.4546 0.256 39.66
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=44 0.1882 0.3327 0.3555 0.226 11.29
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=45 0.1964 0.3525 0.3771 0.231 13.05
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=46 0.2039 0.3713 0.3987 0.236 15.01
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=47 0.2103 0.3907 0.4202 0.245 17.19
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=48 0.2145 0.4055 0.4384 0.251 19.60
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=49 0.2179 0.4198 0.4550 0.257 22.25
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=50 0.2208 0.4305 0.4681 0.268 25.15
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=51 0.2227 0.4402 0.4791 0.275 28.30
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=52 0.2241 0.4473 0.4884 0.284 31.70
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=53 0.2265 0.4544 0.4965 0.294 35.34
nprobe=16,max_codes=30000,ht=54 0.2278 0.4601 0.5031 0.303 39.20
The result reported in table 2 is the one for which the %pass (percentage of code comparisons that pass the Hamming check) is around 20%, which occurs for Hamming threshold ht=48.
The 8-byte results can be reproduced with the factory key IMI2x12,PQ8
The experiments in the appendix are only in the ArXiv version of the paper (table 3).
python bench_polysemous_1bn.py SIFT1000M OPQ8_64,IMI2x13,PQ8 nprobe={1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128},ht={20,24,26,28,30}
R@1 R@10 R@100 time %pass
nprobe=1,ht=20 0.0351 0.0616 0.0751 0.158 19.01
...
nprobe=32,ht=28 0.1256 0.3563 0.5026 0.561 52.61
...
Here again the runs are not exactly the same but the original result was obtained from nprobe=32,ht=28.
For Deep1B, we used a simple version of auto-tuning to sweep through the set of operating points:
python bench_polysemous_1bn.py Deep1B OPQ20_80,IMI2x14,PQ20 autotune
...
Done in 4067.555 s, available OPs:
Parameters 1-R@1 time
0.0000 0.000
nprobe=1,ht=22,max_codes=256 0.0215 3.115
nprobe=1,ht=30,max_codes=256 0.0381 3.120
...
nprobe=512,ht=68,max_codes=524288 0.4478 36.903
nprobe=1024,ht=80,max_codes=131072 0.4557 46.363
nprobe=1024,ht=78,max_codes=262144 0.4616 61.939
...
The original results were obtained with nprobe=1024,ht=66,max_codes=262144.
The benchmarks below run 1 or 4 Titan X GPUs and reproduce the results of the "GPU paper". They are also a good starting point on how to use GPU Faiss.
See above on how to get SIFT1M into subdirectory sift1M/. The script bench_gpu_sift1m.py reproduces the "exact k-NN time" plot in the ArXiv paper, and the SIFT1M numbers.
The output is:
============ Exact search
add vectors to index
warmup
benchmark
k=1 0.715 s, R@1 0.9914
k=2 0.729 s, R@1 0.9935
k=4 0.731 s, R@1 0.9935
k=8 0.732 s, R@1 0.9935
k=16 0.742 s, R@1 0.9935
k=32 0.737 s, R@1 0.9935
k=64 0.753 s, R@1 0.9935
k=128 0.761 s, R@1 0.9935
k=256 0.799 s, R@1 0.9935
k=512 0.975 s, R@1 0.9935
k=1024 1.424 s, R@1 0.9935
============ Approximate search
train
WARNING clustering 100000 points to 4096 centroids: please provide at least 159744 training points
add vectors to index
WARN: increase temp memory to avoid cudaMalloc, or decrease query/add size (alloc 256000000 B, highwater 256000000 B)
warmup
benchmark
nprobe= 1 0.043 s recalls= 0.3909 0.4312 0.4312
nprobe= 2 0.040 s recalls= 0.5041 0.5636 0.5636
nprobe= 4 0.048 s recalls= 0.6048 0.6897 0.6897
nprobe= 8 0.064 s recalls= 0.6879 0.8028 0.8028
nprobe= 16 0.088 s recalls= 0.7534 0.8940 0.8940
nprobe= 32 0.134 s recalls= 0.7957 0.9549 0.9550
nprobe= 64 0.224 s recalls= 0.8125 0.9833 0.9834
nprobe= 128 0.395 s recalls= 0.8205 0.9953 0.9954
nprobe= 256 0.717 s recalls= 0.8227 0.9993 0.9994
nprobe= 512 1.348 s recalls= 0.8228 0.9999 1.0000
The run produces two warnings:
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the clustering complains that it does not have enough training data, there is not much we can do about this.
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the add() function complains that there is an inefficient memory allocation, but this is a concern only when it happens often, and we are not benchmarking the add time anyways.
To index small datasets, it is more efficient to use a GpuIVFFlat, which just stores the full vectors in the inverted lists. We did not mention this in the the paper because it is not as scalable. To experiment with this setting, change the index_factory string from "IVF4096,PQ64" to "IVF16384,Flat". This gives:
nprobe= 1 0.025 s recalls= 0.4084 0.4105 0.4105
nprobe= 2 0.033 s recalls= 0.5235 0.5264 0.5264
nprobe= 4 0.033 s recalls= 0.6332 0.6367 0.6367
nprobe= 8 0.040 s recalls= 0.7358 0.7403 0.7403
nprobe= 16 0.049 s recalls= 0.8273 0.8324 0.8324
nprobe= 32 0.068 s recalls= 0.8957 0.9024 0.9024
nprobe= 64 0.104 s recalls= 0.9477 0.9549 0.9549
nprobe= 128 0.174 s recalls= 0.9760 0.9837 0.9837
nprobe= 256 0.299 s recalls= 0.9866 0.9944 0.9944
nprobe= 512 0.527 s recalls= 0.9907 0.9987 0.9987
To get the "infinite MNIST dataset", follow the instructions on Léon Bottou's website. The script assumes the file mnist8m-patterns-idx3-ubyte is in subdirectory mnist8m
The script kmeans_mnist.py produces the following output:
python kmeans_mnist.py 1 256
...
Clustering 8100000 points in 784D to 256 clusters, redo 1 times, 20 iterations
Preprocessing in 7.94526 s
Iteration 19 (131.697 s, search 114.78 s): objective=1.44881e+13 imbalance=1.05963 nsplit=0
final objective: 1.449e+13
total runtime: 140.615 s
The script bench_gpu_1bn.py runs multi-gpu searches on the two 1-billion vector datasets we considered. It is more complex than the previous scripts, because it supports many search options and decomposes the dataset build process in Python to exploit the best possible CPU/GPU parallelism and GPU distribution.
Even on multiple GPUs, building the 1B datasets can last several hours. It is often a good idea to validate that everything is working fine on smaller datasets like SIFT1M, SIFT2M, etc.
The search results on SIFT1B in the "GPU paper" can be obtained with
python bench_gpu_1bn.py SIFT1000M OPQ8_32,IVF262144,PQ8 -nnn 10 -ngpu 1 -tempmem $[1536*1024*1024]
...
0/10000 (0.024 s) probe=1 : 0.161 s 1-R@1: 0.0752 1-R@10: 0.1924
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=2 : 0.150 s 1-R@1: 0.0964 1-R@10: 0.2693
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=4 : 0.153 s 1-R@1: 0.1102 1-R@10: 0.3328
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=8 : 0.170 s 1-R@1: 0.1220 1-R@10: 0.3827
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=16 : 0.196 s 1-R@1: 0.1290 1-R@10: 0.4151
0/10000 (0.006 s) probe=32 : 0.244 s 1-R@1: 0.1314 1-R@10: 0.4345
0/10000 (0.006 s) probe=64 : 0.353 s 1-R@1: 0.1332 1-R@10: 0.4461
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=128: 0.587 s 1-R@1: 0.1341 1-R@10: 0.4502
0/10000 (0.006 s) probe=256: 1.160 s 1-R@1: 0.1342 1-R@10: 0.4511
We use the -tempmem option to reduce the temporary memory allocation to 1.5G, otherwise the dataset does not fit in GPU memory
The same script generates the GPU search results on Deep1B.
python bench_gpu_1bn.py Deep1B OPQ20_80,IVF262144,PQ20 -nnn 10 -R 2 -ngpu 4 -altadd -noptables -tempmem $[1024*1024*1024]
...
0/10000 (0.115 s) probe=1 : 0.239 s 1-R@1: 0.2387 1-R@10: 0.3420
0/10000 (0.006 s) probe=2 : 0.103 s 1-R@1: 0.3110 1-R@10: 0.4623
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=4 : 0.105 s 1-R@1: 0.3772 1-R@10: 0.5862
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=8 : 0.116 s 1-R@1: 0.4235 1-R@10: 0.6889
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=16 : 0.133 s 1-R@1: 0.4517 1-R@10: 0.7693
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=32 : 0.168 s 1-R@1: 0.4713 1-R@10: 0.8281
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=64 : 0.238 s 1-R@1: 0.4841 1-R@10: 0.8649
0/10000 (0.007 s) probe=128: 0.384 s 1-R@1: 0.4900 1-R@10: 0.8816
0/10000 (0.005 s) probe=256: 0.736 s 1-R@1: 0.4933 1-R@10: 0.8912
Here we are a bit tight on memory so we disable precomputed tables (-noptables) and restrict the amount of temporary memory. The -altadd option avoids GPU memory overflows during add.
The same script generates the KNN-graph on Deep1B. Note that the inverted file from above will not be re-used because the training sets are different. For the knngraph, the script will first do a pass over the whole dataset to compute the ground-truth knn for a subset of 10k nodes, for evaluation.
python bench_gpu_1bn.py Deep1B OPQ20_80,IVF262144,PQ20 -nnn 10 -altadd -knngraph -R 2 -noptables -tempmem $[1<<30] -ngpu 4
...
CPU index contains 1000000000 vectors, move to GPU
Copy CPU index to 2 sharded GPU indexes
dispatch to GPUs 0:2
IndexShards shard 0 indices 0:500000000
IndexIVFPQ size 500000000 -> GpuIndexIVFPQ indicesOptions=0 usePrecomputed=0 useFloat16=0 reserveVecs=0
IndexShards shard 1 indices 500000000:1000000000
IndexIVFPQ size 500000000 -> GpuIndexIVFPQ indicesOptions=0 usePrecomputed=0 useFloat16=0 reserveVecs=0
dispatch to GPUs 2:4
IndexShards shard 0 indices 0:500000000
IndexIVFPQ size 500000000 -> GpuIndexIVFPQ indicesOptions=0 usePrecomputed=0 useFloat16=0 reserveVecs=0
IndexShards shard 1 indices 500000000:1000000000
IndexIVFPQ size 500000000 -> GpuIndexIVFPQ indicesOptions=0 usePrecomputed=0 useFloat16=0 reserveVecs=0
move to GPU done in 151.535 s
search...
999997440/1000000000 (8389.961 s, 0.3379) probe=1 : 8389.990 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.3379
999997440/1000000000 (9205.934 s, 0.4079) probe=2 : 9205.966 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.4079
999997440/1000000000 (9741.095 s, 0.4722) probe=4 : 9741.128 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.4722
999997440/1000000000 (10830.420 s, 0.5256) probe=8 : 10830.455 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.5256
999997440/1000000000 (12531.716 s, 0.5603) probe=16 : 12531.758 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.5603
999997440/1000000000 (15922.519 s, 0.5825) probe=32 : 15922.571 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.5825
999997440/1000000000 (22774.153 s, 0.5950) probe=64 : 22774.220 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.5950
999997440/1000000000 (36717.207 s, 0.6015) probe=128: 36717.309 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.6015
999997440/1000000000 (70616.392 s, 0.6047) probe=256: 70616.581 s rank-10 intersection results: 0.6047
This directory also contains certain additional benchmarks (and serve as an additional source of examples of how to use the FAISS code). Certain tests / benchmarks might be outdated.
- bench_6bit_codec.cpp - tests vector codecs for SQ6 quantization on a synthetic dataset
- bench_cppcontrib_sa_decode.cpp - benchmarks specialized kernels for vector codecs for PQ, IVFPQ and Resudial+PQ on a synthetic dataset
- bench_for_interrupt.py - evaluates the impact of the interrupt callback handler (which can be triggered from Python code)
- bench_hamming_computer.cpp - specialized implementations for Hamming distance computations
- bench_heap_replace.cpp - benchmarks different implementations of certain calls for a Heap data structure
- bench_hnsw.py - benchmarks HNSW in combination with other ones for SIFT1M dataset
- bench_index_flat.py - benchmarks IndexFlatL2 on a synthetic dataset
- bench_index_pq.py - benchmarks PQ on SIFT1M dataset
- bench_ivf_fastscan_single_query.py - benchmarks a single query for different nprobe levels for IVF{nlist},PQ{M}x4fs on BIGANN dataset
- bench_ivf_fastscan.py - compares IVF{nlist},PQ{M}x4fs against other indices on SIFT1M dataset
- bench_ivf_selector.cpp - checks the possible overhead when using faiss::IDSelectorAll interface
- bench_pairwise_distances.py - benchmarks pairwise distance computation between two synthetic datasets
- bench_partition.py - benchmarks partitioning functions
- bench_pq_tables.py - benchmarks ProductQuantizer.compute_inner_prod_tables() and ProductQuantizer.compute_distance_tables() calls
- bench_quantizer.py - benchmarks various quantizers for SIFT1M, Deep1B, BigANN datasets
- bench_scalar_quantizer.py - benchmarks IVF+SQ on a Sift1M dataset
- bench_vector_ops.py - benchmarks dot product and distances computations on a synthetic dataset