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# Instant Distance: fast HNSW indexing

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Instance Distance is a fast pure-Rust implementation of the
[Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds paper][paper] by Malkov and Yashunin
for finding approximate nearest neighbors. This implementation will power the
[InstantDomainSearch.com][ids] backend services used for word vector indexing.

[paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09320
[ids]: https://instantdomainsearch.com/