[QUESTION]: Does pymilvus support float16 and/or bfloat16 embeddings?

[BBC-Esq]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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What is your question?

Does pymilvus support float16 and/or bfloat16 embeddings? I am not referring to the "dtype" that an embedding model is being run with but rather the actual embeddings that are returned? For example, I know that tiledb, which I currently use, does not:

https://docs.tiledb.com/spark/supported-datatypes

Anything else?

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[XuanYang-cn]

@BBC-Esq Yes, Milvus and PyMilvus supports bf16 and fp16 embeddings

Ref to PyMilvus example:
https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus/blob/master/examples/datatypes/float16_example.py https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus/blob/master/examples/datatypes/bfloat16_example.py

Ref to Milvus doc:
Look for Supported data types: https://milvus.io/docs/schema.md

[BBC-Esq]

Perfect, thank you. And if I switch my program from tiledb to you guys, what other differences are there?

[XuanYang-cn]

Sorry that I'm not familiar with tiledb, feel free to reach us when anything goes wrong during the switch, we're happy to offer helps on specific problems.