FAISS
FAISS is a C++/Python library from Facebook AI Research for efficient similarity search over large vector collections. It provides approximate nearest neighbor indexes, GPU acceleration and multiple distance metrics for embedding-based retrieval. The library supports production use and exposes index types and knobs to trade accuracy for latency.
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- FAISS is a library from Facebook AI Research for efficient similarity search over large vector datasets, offering CPU and GPU implementations and multiple index structures.
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