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HNSWLIB is a C++ library with Python bindings for fast approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) graphs, commonly used in vector database backends.

This paper introduces the HNSW algorithm, which is widely adopted in vector databases and search engines for its efficient and robust performance on high-dimensional data. HNSW is foundational in powering modern vector search systems.