Expose an _semanticSimilarity as a dot product in the documents

Cargo.lock

@@ -2595,6 +2595,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "num_cpus",
  "obkv",
  "once_cell",
+ "ordered-float",
  "parking_lot",
  "permissive-json-pointer",
  "pin-project-lite",

meilisearch/Cargo.toml

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ mime = "0.3.17"
 num_cpus = "1.15.0"
 obkv = "0.2.0"
 once_cell = "1.17.1"
+ordered-float = "3.7.0"
 parking_lot = "0.12.1"
 permissive-json-pointer = { path = "../permissive-json-pointer" }
 pin-project-lite = "0.2.9"

meilisearch/src/search.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use meilisearch_auth::IndexSearchRules;
 use meilisearch_types::deserr::DeserrJsonError;
 use meilisearch_types::error::deserr_codes::*;
 use meilisearch_types::index_uid::IndexUid;
+use meilisearch_types::milli::dot_product_similarity;
 use meilisearch_types::milli::score_details::{ScoreDetails, ScoringStrategy};
 use meilisearch_types::settings::DEFAULT_PAGINATION_MAX_TOTAL_HITS;
 use meilisearch_types::{milli, Document};
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ use milli::{
     AscDesc, FieldId, FieldsIdsMap, Filter, FormatOptions, Index, MatchBounds, MatcherBuilder,
     SortError, TermsMatchingStrategy, DEFAULT_VALUES_PER_FACET,
 };
+use ordered_float::OrderedFloat;
 use regex::Regex;
 use serde::Serialize;
 use serde_json::{json, Value};
@@ -457,6 +459,10 @@ pub fn perform_search(
             insert_geo_distance(sort, &mut document);
         }
 
+        if let Some(vector) = query.vector.as_ref() {
+            insert_semantic_similarity(&vector, &mut document);
+        }
+
         let ranking_score =
             query.show_ranking_score.then(|| ScoreDetails::global_score(score.iter()));
         let ranking_score_details =
@@ -542,6 +548,22 @@ fn insert_geo_distance(sorts: &[String], document: &mut Document) {
     }
 }
 
+fn insert_semantic_similarity(query: &[f32], document: &mut Document) {
+    if let Some(value) = document.get("_vectors") {
+        let vectors: Vec<Vec<f32>> = match serde_json::from_value(value.clone()) {
+            Ok(Either::Left(vector)) => vec![vector],
+            Ok(Either::Right(vectors)) => vectors,
+            Err(_) => return,
+        };
+        let similarity = vectors
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|v| OrderedFloat(dot_product_similarity(query, &v)))
+            .max()
+            .map(OrderedFloat::into_inner);
+        document.insert("_semanticSimilarity".to_string(), json!(similarity));
+    }
+}
+
 fn compute_formatted_options(
     attr_to_highlight: &HashSet<String>,
     attr_to_crop: &[String],

milli/src/distance.rs

@@ -12,13 +12,18 @@ impl Metric<Vec<f32>> for DotProduct {
     //
     // Following <https://docs.rs/space/0.17.0/space/trait.Metric.html>.
     fn distance(&self, a: &Vec<f32>, b: &Vec<f32>) -> Self::Unit {
-        let dist: f32 = a.iter().zip(b).map(|(a, b)| a * b).sum();
+        let dist = 1.0 - dot_product_similarity(a, b);
-        let dist = 1.0 - dist;
         debug_assert!(!dist.is_nan());
         dist.to_bits()
     }
 }
 
+/// Returns the dot product similarity score that will between 0.0 and 1.0
+/// if both vectors are normalized. The higher the more similar the vectors are.
+pub fn dot_product_similarity(a: &[f32], b: &[f32]) -> f32 {
+    a.iter().zip(b).map(|(a, b)| a * b).sum()
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Copy, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct Euclidean;
 
@@ -26,9 +31,14 @@ impl Metric<Vec<f32>> for Euclidean {
     type Unit = u32;
 
     fn distance(&self, a: &Vec<f32>, b: &Vec<f32>) -> Self::Unit {
-        let squared: f32 = a.iter().zip(b).map(|(a, b)| (a - b).powi(2)).sum();
+        let dist = euclidean_squared_distance(a, b).sqrt();
-        let dist = squared.sqrt();
         debug_assert!(!dist.is_nan());
         dist.to_bits()
     }
 }
+
+/// Return the squared euclidean distance between both vectors that will
+/// between 0.0 and +inf. The smaller the nearer the vectors are.
+pub fn euclidean_squared_distance(a: &[f32], b: &[f32]) -> f32 {
+    a.iter().zip(b).map(|(a, b)| (a - b).powi(2)).sum()
+}

milli/src/lib.rs

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ use std::convert::{TryFrom, TryInto};
 use std::hash::BuildHasherDefault;
 
 use charabia::normalizer::{CharNormalizer, CompatibilityDecompositionNormalizer};
+pub use distance::{dot_product_similarity, euclidean_squared_distance};
 pub use filter_parser::{Condition, FilterCondition, Span, Token};
 use fxhash::{FxHasher32, FxHasher64};
 pub use grenad::CompressionType;