Conventions
Table 1 describes the naming rules of key classes or interfaces, and Table 2 describes definitions of some terms in this document.
Prefix |
Description |
|---|---|
Mx/mx |
MindX (general name of Ascend application enablement software) |
Ascend |
Ascend (Ascend application enablement software) |
Term |
Description |
|---|---|
FeatureClustering |
End-to-end feature clustering component based on feature retrieval on the Ascend platform |
Feature archiving/Archiving |
On FeatureClustering, a process of performing clustering on input feature vectors is described as feature archiving. |
Archive merging |
On FeatureClustering, a process of further merging archives is described as archive merging. |
FeatureRetrieval |
It supports different retrieval policies and configurations for large and small libraries. |
ArchiveResult |
On FeatureClustering, the result obtained from archiving or merging input feature vectors is called ArchiveResult, which can also be used as the input for archive merging. |
Faiss |
Open-source search framework of Facebook |
Protobuf |
Open-source data serialization framework of Google |