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by bratao 600 days ago
SPANN is also implemented in the open-source Vespa.ai
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Actual SPANN or janky "inspired by SPANN" IVF with HNSW in front? Only real SPANN (with SPTAG, and partitioning designed to work with SPTAG) delivers good results. A superficial read of the paper LOOKS like you can achieve similar results by throwing off the shelf components at it, but it doesn't actually work well.