Why cosine distance is refered to as angular distance? #580

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habedi opened this issue Mar 23, 2025 · 0 comments

habedi commented Mar 23, 2025

Hi,

Thanks for the great project!

I noticed that in the ann_benchmarks/distance.py file, there is a distance called angular that uses the formula for cosine distance.

Why is it called angular when it uses the cosine distance formula? To my knowledge, angular distance has a different formula.

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