faiss — Easy Examples

Facebook AI Similarity Search: billion-scale vector similarity

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Getting started with faiss

Installation and basic usage of faiss.

python
# Install: pip install faiss-cpu  # or faiss-gpu
import faiss

# Basic faiss usage
print(f"Using faiss")
# See documentation for detailed examples
Expected Output
# Expected output shown below
# (Run locally with: faiss)

faiss is a third-party package. Facebook AI Similarity Search: billion-scale vector similarity. Install with: pip install faiss-cpu # or faiss-gpu

Common faiss operations

Frequently used features of faiss.

python
# Install: pip install faiss-cpu  # or faiss-gpu
import faiss

# Common faiss patterns
print(f"faiss version: {faiss.__version__}")

These are the most commonly used features of faiss in everyday development.

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