UMAP Author McInnes Ships New Release, Vastly Cutting ANN Index Build Times
leland_mcinnes · x · 2026-10-28
Leland McInnes, author of UMAP and hdbscan, announced a new release now available on PyPI and GitHub. A highlight of this release: it vastly decreases total index build times when using the library for approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search. Full update notes are in the project documentation.
Related event: PyNNDescent 0.7 Delivers Massive kNN Graph Speedups(4 posts)→
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