rotorvec

Vector index using block-diagonal Clifford-rotor quantization with optional Walsh-Hadamard cross-block mixing. Four rotation variants, one API:

"planar2" — 2D Givens, O(d), cheapest
"rotor3" — Cl(3,0) sandwich, O(d), default
"iso4" — quaternion left-iso, O(d)
"walshrotor3" ✨ — signed FWHT then Cl(3,0) sandwich, O(d log d). Closes the recall gap on data with strong cross-coordinate correlations (image features, SIFT). Requires dim ∈ {128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096}.

A block-diagonal cousin of turbovec (TurboQuant): same compression and bit-plane layout, but the dense d×d random rotation is replaced by small per-block rotors. Beats turbovec on SIFT-1M recall (0.496 vs 0.487) at 1.8× faster build time when "walshrotor3" is used.

See the main repo README for the full algorithm description, attribution, and benchmarks.

Install

pip install rotorvec

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Usage

import numpy as np
from rotorvec import RotorQuantIndex, IdMapIndex

# Default: Cl(3,0) rotors, 4-bit codes
index = RotorQuantIndex(dim=1536, bits=4)

# Or pick a variant explicitly
planar = RotorQuantIndex(dim=1536, bits=4, rotation="planar2")
iso    = RotorQuantIndex(dim=1536, bits=4, rotation="iso4")

# Power-of-two dim → use walshrotor3 for the strongest recall
walsh  = RotorQuantIndex(dim=1024, bits=4, rotation="walshrotor3")

vectors = np.random.randn(10_000, 1536).astype(np.float32)
queries = np.random.randn(8, 1536).astype(np.float32)

index.add(vectors)
scores, indices = index.search(queries, k=10)   # (8, 10) float32 / int64

index.write("index.rv")
loaded = RotorQuantIndex.load("index.rv")

Stable external ids:

ids = np.array([1001, 1002, 1003], dtype=np.uint64)
m = IdMapIndex(dim=1536, bits=4, rotation="planar2")
m.add_with_ids(vectors[:3], ids)
scores, returned_ids = m.search(queries, k=3)   # ids are uint64
m.remove(1002)

Accepted rotation values: "planar2", "rotor3" (default), "iso4", "walshrotor3" (case-insensitive; aliases "givens", "clifford", "quaternion", "walsh", "walsh-rotor3", "rotor3+walsh" also work).

Development

git clone https://github.com/smarthi/rotorvec
cd rotorvec/rotorvec-python
uv venv --python 3.10
uv pip install -e .
uv run pytest tests/

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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