Faiss

Faiss was created out of a Facebook research paper “Billion-scale similarity search with GPUs” in 2017.

Logo

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Website

https://ai.facebook.com/tools/faiss

Repository

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

Byline

Faiss is a library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.

License

MIT

Project age

5 years 9 months

Backers

FaceBook (Creator and maintainer)

Size score (1 to 10, higher is better)

6.0

Trend score (1 to 10, higher is better)

6.25

Education Resources

URL

Resource Type

Description

https://faiss.ai/

Documentation

Official project documentation.

Git Commit Statistics

Statistics computed using Git data through November 30, 2022.

Statistic

Lifetime

Last 12 Months

Commits

19,703

1,066

Lines committed

80,368,249

378,939

Unique committers

119

34

Core committers

3

11

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