[HN Gopher] Faiss: Facebook's open source vector search library ___________________________________________________________________ Faiss: Facebook's open source vector search library Author : ai_ja_nai Score : 59 points Date : 2021-12-14 18:58 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | gk1 wrote: | Fun seeing vector search all over the front page today. :) | | The official documentation on Faiss is rather light, so we made | "The Missing Manual to Faiss": | https://www.pinecone.io/learn/faiss-tutorial/ | threatofrain wrote: | Another HN post from today on vector search. | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29554986 | prophesi wrote: | And I'm wondering if these are all making the front page | because of this Show HN from earlier. | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29551947 | Kydlaw wrote: | There is a lot done vector search technology right now. I was | less fortunate when looking at ways to store the vectors in | databases. I already looked at Pinecone or Weaviate but they are | all paid products. | | Is there some people having feedback on this? | lmeyerov wrote: | A lot of VCs & founders trying to commercialize other people's | SW are wondering this too :) | | AFAICT: Most of those are basically UIs, data management, & | integrations around the same set of vector index libs like | FAISS + same set of models like HF, and even the same set of | inference server libs (triton, aws/gcp, fastapi, ...). So you'd | be evaluating different commercializations of the same core OSS | tech. There are useful evaluations to do at that level, but | more like licensing, business model, UI, model management, etc. | | Another commenter below recognized that regular DBs (ES, | Postgres, ..) are starting to add vector indexes. As someone | doing a lot of architecting for log/event/graph | correlation/investigation systems, I've been tracking whether | managed neural search db is a feature vs new category, and how | big. Ex: those corporate sides definitely feels like an Algolia | competitor, but for the 99% case we normally do, maybe just an | OSS feature/lib of whatever DB/framework you're already using? | Not obvious! | amelius wrote: | Show me the benchmark results! | kristjansson wrote: | See also: Ann-benchmarks[0], Annoy[1], ScaNN[2] | | [0]: http://ann-benchmarks.com [1]: | https://github.com/spotify/annoy [2]: https://github.com/google- | research/google-research/tree/mast... | monkeybutton wrote: | Are Facebook's look-alike audiences implemented using faiss? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-14 23:00 UTC)