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@guesswh0 guesswh0 commented May 6, 2026

💡 What:

  • Vectorized distance calculation in BasicEstimator.predict using the squared Euclidean distance expansion formula: $||a-b||^2 = ||a||^2 + ||b||^2 - 2ab$.
  • Pre-calculated squared norms in BasicEstimator.fit to avoid redundant work.
  • Vectorized bounding box area calculation in FaceEngine.find_faces using NumPy.
  • Fixed a bug in FaceEngine.find_faces where extra metadata (like detection scores) was incorrectly sliced when a limit was applied, causing misaligned or truncated metadata.

🎯 Why:

  • The previous implementation of BasicEstimator.predict was bottlenecked by a Python loop and repeated np.linalg.norm calls, which was inefficient for batch processing.
  • FaceEngine.find_faces used list comprehensions for area calculation and sorting, which is slower than vectorized NumPy operations.
  • The extra metadata slicing bug was causing incorrect results when users limited the number of faces.

📊 Impact:

  • ~12x speedup for BasicEstimator.predict when processing 500 input embeddings against 2000 fitted embeddings (from ~0.25s to ~0.02s).
  • More robust and faster face filtering in FaceEngine.find_faces.
  • Corrected alignment of detection metadata.

🔬 Measurement:

  • Performance was verified using a benchmark script comparing the old loop-based approach with the new vectorized approach.
  • Correctness was verified by ensuring distance calculations match (within floating point tolerance rtol=1e-4) and that metadata correctly corresponds to the selected faces after limiting.
  • Existing tests passed.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 978926989139079520 started by @guesswh0

- Vectorize BasicEstimator.predict using squared distance expansion
- Pre-calculate norms in BasicEstimator.fit
- Vectorize area calculation in FaceEngine.find_faces
- Fix extra metadata slicing bug in FaceEngine.find_faces

Co-authored-by: guesswh0 <10531675+guesswh0@users.noreply.github.com>
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