Pyserini Release Notes (v0.38.0)

Release date: September 11, 2024
Anserini dependency: v0.38.0
Lucene dependency: v9.9.1

Summary of Changes

Added bindings to dense searcher implementations in Lucene (incorporating changes in Anserini API):
- Anserini flat dense searcher (FlatDenseSearcher): single-threaded and batch, using ONNX on BEIR.
- Anserini HNSW dense searcher (HnswDenseSearcher): single-threaded and batch, using ONNX on BEIR.
Improved 2CR page for BEIR.

Contributors

This Release

Sorted by number of commits:

Jimmy Lin (lintool)
Anshul Singh (anshulsc)
Manveer Tamber (manveertamber)
Raya Ferdous (r-aya)
Setareh Babajani (setarehbabajani)

All Time

All contributors with five or more commits, sorted by number of commits, according to GitHub:

Jimmy Lin (lintool)
Xueguang Ma (MXueguang)
Xinyu (Crystina) Zhang (crystina-z)
Yuqi Liu (yuki617)
Johnson Han (x65han)
Stephanie Hu (stephaniewhoo)
Jasper Xian (jasper-xian)
Arthur Chen (ArthurChen189)
Manveer Tamber (manveertamber)
Jack Lin (jacklin64)
Jheng-Hong Yang (justram)
Sahel Sharifymoghaddam (sahel-sh)
Mofe Adeyemi (Mofetoluwa)
Minghan Li (alexlimh)
Catherine Zhou (Cathrineee)
Ogundepo Odunayo (ToluClassics)
Hang Li (hanglics)
Ronak Pradeep (ronakice)
Chris Kamphuis (Chriskamphuis)
Habeeb Shopeju (HAKSOAT)
Shengyao Zhuang (ArvinZhuang)
Sailesh Nankani (saileshnankani)
Zeynep Akkalyoncu Yilmaz (zeynepakkalyoncu)
Xinyu Mavis Liu (x389liu)
Ehsan (ehsk)
Pepijn Boers (PepijnBoers)