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Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search

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I wrote this as a visual companion to the 2017 FAISS paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08734), focused on the parts I found hardest to grok from text alone.The article covers a subset of what FAISS does, with the paper as the source of truth.

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NSG, FastScan, IMI are not covered here, they'll get their own articles.

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