1. 26 Mar, 2020 1 commit
    • Justin Johnson's avatar
      Implement K-Nearest Neighbors · 870290df
      Justin Johnson authored
      Summary:
      Implements K-Nearest Neighbors with C++ and CUDA versions.
      
      KNN in CUDA is highly nontrivial. I've implemented a few different versions of the kernel, and we heuristically dispatch to different kernels based on the problem size. Some of the kernels rely on template specialization on either D or K, so we use template metaprogramming to compile specialized versions for ranges of D and K.
      
      These kernels are up to 3x faster than our existing 1-nearest-neighbor kernels, so we should also consider swapping out `nn_points_idx` to use these kernels in the backend.
      
      I've been working mostly on the CUDA kernels, and haven't converged on the correct Python API.
      
      I still want to benchmark against FAISS to see how far away we are from their performance.
      
      Reviewed By: bottler
      
      Differential Revision: D19729286
      
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