2024

The Faiss library

Douze, Matthijs, Guzhva, Alexandr, Deng, Chengqi et al.

Understand

Vector databases typically manage large collections of embedding vectors.

  • Currently, AI applications are growing rapidly, and so is the number of embeddings that need to be stored and indexed.
  • The Faiss library is dedicated to vector similarity search, a core functionality of vector databases.
  • Faiss is a toolkit of indexing methods and related primitives used to search, cluster, compress and transform vectors.

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