Compare

Score similarity between glyphs with Compare(), CompareGlyphs(), or CompareGroups().

Comparison estimates Jaccard similarity between two text feature bags by counting equal MinHash slots.

Compare(a, b, options?)

Routes automatically:

Input on either side	Path
Single glyph, signature, or record	CompareGlyphs
GlyphGroup / GlyphGroupInput (map or array)	CompareGroups

import { Create, Compare } from "@koda.oss/glyph";

const a = Create("Goodbye moon");
const b = Create("Goodbye sun");

Compare(a, b);
Compare(a.glyph, b.glyph);

Accepts Glyph, GlyphSignature, GlyphRecord, or GlyphGroupInput (map or array).

CompareGlyphs(a, b, options?)

Pairwise compare only. Use when both sides are single glyphs (or signatures/records).

import { Create, CompareGlyphs } from "@koda.oss/glyph";

CompareGlyphs(Create("a"), Create("b"));

CompareGroups uses this internally for every pair.

CompareGroups(group1, group2, options?)

Explicit group compare. Scores every pair, then aggregates (default: max).

import { CreateGroup, CompareGroups } from "@koda.oss/glyph";

CompareGroups(
  CreateGroup(["alpha beta", "gamma delta"]),
  CreateGroup(["gamma delta", "unrelated"]),
);

Result: GlyphComparisonResult

{
  "similarity": 0.35,
  "matches": 45,
  "distance": 83,
  "size": 128
}

Field	Meaning
similarity	matches / size
matches	Equal signature slots
distance	size - matches
size	Signature length

Options

interface GlyphComparisonOptions {
  aggregate?: GroupResultAggregator; // CompareGroups only
}

CompareGlyphs ignores aggregate. See Groups.

Errors

Condition	Result
Glyph size mismatch	Throws
Empty group	Throws

Interpret scores

similarity	Typical meaning
1.0	Identical feature bags (usually identical normalized text)
High	Strong word/phrase overlap
Low	Little overlap
Near 0	Unrelated

MinHash estimates set similarity. It is not edit distance or embedding cosine similarity.

Related

• Groups
• Getting started
• Query results
• Create
• Spotlight

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