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AI Glossary / FAISS

FAISS

FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search) is a library of exact and approximate vector search indexes on CPU/GPU. It is a common building block under custom RAG stacks and some vector DBs.

Choose IVF/HNSW/PQ configs based on scale, memory, and recall targets.

Related terms

  • Approximate Nearest Neighbor
  • Vector Database
  • Embedding

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