using System; namespace ZeroLevel.HNSW { public static class Metrics { /// /// The taxicab metric is also known as rectilinear distance, /// L1 distance or L1 norm, city block distance, Manhattan distance, /// or Manhattan length, with the corresponding variations in the name of the geometry. /// It represents the distance between points in a city road grid. /// It examines the absolute differences between the coordinates of a pair of objects. /// public static float L1Manhattan(float[] v1, float[] v2) { float res = 0; for (int i = 0; i < v1.Length; i++) { float t = v1[i] - v2[i]; res += t * t; } return (res); } /// /// Euclidean distance is the most common use of distance. /// Euclidean distance, or simply 'distance', /// examines the root of square differences between the coordinates of a pair of objects. /// This is most generally known as the Pythagorean theorem. /// public static float L2Euclidean(float[] v1, float[] v2) { float res = 0; for (int i = 0; i < v1.Length; i++) { float t = v1[i] - v2[i]; res += t * t; } return (float)Math.Sqrt(res); } /// /// The general metric for distance is the Minkowski distance. /// When lambda is equal to 1, it becomes the city block distance (L1), /// and when lambda is equal to 2, it becomes the Euclidean distance (L2). /// The special case is when lambda is equal to infinity (taking a limit), /// where it is considered as the Chebyshev distance. /// public static float MinkowskiDistance(float[] v1, float[] v2, int order) { int count = v1.Length; double sum = 0.0; for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) { sum = sum + Math.Pow(Math.Abs(v1[i] - v2[i]), order); } return (float)Math.Pow(sum, (1 / order)); } /// /// Chebyshev distance is also called the Maximum value distance, /// defined on a vector space where the distance between two vectors is /// the greatest of their differences along any coordinate dimension. /// In other words, it examines the absolute magnitude of the differences /// between the coordinates of a pair of objects. /// public static double ChebyshevDistance(float[] v1, float[] v2) { int count = v1.Length; float max = float.MinValue; float c; for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) { c = Math.Abs(v1[i] - v2[i]); if (c > max) { max = c; } } return max; } } }