From: nmslib <github.com/nmslib>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject:

hnswlib

Release: v0.9.0 (2026-03-28)Commit: d9b3608License: Apache-2.0

Header-only C++/python library for fast approximate nearest neighbors

retrievalv0.9.0releasehnswlibC++Apache-2.0

FactsLicenseApache-2.0LanguageC++KindretrievalRelease2026-03-28PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsLinks to the projectpermissive

$ pip install .

Overview Install Use with Freeweights License Provenance

Overview

Header-only library for fast approximate nearest-neighbor search.

Kind: retrieval
License: Apache-2.0
Language: C++
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
Latest release: v0.9.0 (2026-03-28)
Repository: nmslib/hnswlib

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ pip install .

$ pip install .

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-15. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Use a catalog model

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can run (354)

all-MiniLM-L6-v1 all-MiniLM-L6-v2 all-MiniLM-L6-v2-4bit all-mpnet-base-v1 allenai-specter bert-base-nli-max-tokens bert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens bert-large-nli-mean-tokens bge-base-en-v1.5-ONNX bge-large-en-v1.5-ONNX bge-m3-mlx-8bit bge-m3-mlx-fp16 bge-m3-ONNX bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923 bge-small-en-v1.5-GGUF bge-small-zh-v1.5-ONNX BGE-VL-MLLM-S2 BGE-VL-v1.5-mmeb BGE-VL-v1.5-zs BiomedVLP-BioViL-T bitnet-embedding-0.6b bitnet-embedding-270m camembertav2-base camembertav2-base clip-ViT-B-32-multilingual-v1 CLM-v0.1-8B-MLX-8bit CodeRankEmbed core-reranker-2b core-reranker-8b DenseOn DenseOn-ONNX distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens distilbert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens distilbert-multilingual-nli-stsb-quora-ranking distilhubert distiluse-base-multilingual-cased E2Rank-4B E2Rank-8B e5-small-v2-Q8_0-GGUF embeddinggemma-2-4bit embeddinggemma-2-5bit embeddinggemma-2-bf16 embeddinggemma-2-GGUF embeddinggemma-2-mxfp4 embeddinggemma-2-mxfp8 embeddinggemma-2-nvfp4 encodec_48khz ettin-reranker-17m-v1 F2LLM-v2-160M F2LLM-v2-160M-ONNX F2LLM-v2-330M F2LLM-v2-330M-ONNX facebook-dpr-ctx_encoder-multiset-base granite-embedding-30m-english-ONNX granite-embedding-30m-sparse granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2-ONNX granite-embedding-reranker-english-r2 granite-vision-3.3-2b-embedding gte-small gte-small-Q8_0-GGUF

and 294 more.

License

License: Apache-2.0
Class: Permissive

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: nmslib <github.com/nmslib>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: hnswlibRelease: v0.9.0 (2026-03-28)Commit: d9b3608License: Apache-2.0

Repository: nmslib/hnswlib
Pinned release: v0.9.0, 2026-03-28
Release commit: d9b3608c83d83b46c96e25088cb1d729b29dcfe9
Default branch: master ca426729609b3221563047ceb269cc1213e0d376
Fetched: 2026-11-15
Takedowns: None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Get it

Install Project repository

Works with

354 catalog models. See the list