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		BenoitP on April 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pgvector – vector similarity search for Postgres Neat! I guess from the 'ivfflat' keyword that this project is serving vectors produced by FAISS[1] somehow? https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

heipei on April 22, 2021 | [–]

FAISS doesn't produce vectors, it's simply a vector similarity search engine.

BenoitP on April 22, 2021 | | [–]

It produces vectors, also does the (distributed) searching.

Here is a partial list of possible vector types:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Faiss-indexes

gk1 on April 22, 2021 | [–]

Seems that way. Faiss is mentioned in the “Thanks” list.

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