LotusFilter Documentation

LotusFilter (lotf) is a Python package implementing diversity-aware approximate nearest neighbor search, presented at CVPR 2025. It combines faiss for fast similarity search with cutoff tables to filter results for diversity, preventing similar results from dominating the output.

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Citation

@inproceedings{matsui2025cvpr,
    author    = {Yusuke Matsui},
    title     = {LotusFilter: Fast Diverse Nearest Neighbor Search via a Learned Cutoff Table},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    year      = {2025},
    pages     = {30430-30439}
}