This project provides Rust bindings to Faiss, the state-of-the-art vector search and clustering library.
By default, this crate is dynamically linked with the Faiss library installed in your system, so it does not build Faiss automatically for you. To build the library yourself:
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Follow the instructions here to build Faiss using CMake, enabling the variables
FAISS_ENABLE_C_APIandBUILD_SHARED_LIBS. The crate is currently only compatible with version v1.7.2. Consider building Faiss from this fork,c_api_headbranch, which will contain the latest supported bindings to the C interface. For example:cmake -B build -DFAISS_ENABLE_C_API=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release cmake --build build
This will result in the dynamic library
faiss_c("c_api/libfaiss_c.so" on Linux), which needs to be installed in a place where your system will pick up (in Linux, try somewhere in theLD_LIBRARY_PATHenvironment variable, such as "/usr/lib", or try adding a new path to this variable. For mac users, this means placing it in/usr/local/lib/libfaiss_c.dylib). For GPU support, don't forget to enable the optionFAISS_ENABLE_GPU. Note:faiss_cmight link dynamically to the nativefaisslibrary, which in that case you will need to install the main shared object (faiss/libfaiss.so) as well. -
You are now ready to include this crate as a dependency:
[dependencies] "faiss" = "0.11.0"
If you have built Faiss with GPU support, you can include the "gpu" Cargo feature:
[dependencies]
"faiss" = { version = "0.11.0", features = ["gpu"] }Alternatively to the above, enable the "static" Cargo feature to let Rust build Faiss for you. You will still need the dependencies required to build and run Faiss as described in their INSTALL.md, namely a compatible C++ compiler and a BLAS implementation.
[dependencies]
"faiss" = { version = "0.11.0", features = ["static"] }Compiling Faiss with GPU support is also possible.
[dependencies]
"faiss" = { version = "0.11.0", features = ["static", "gpu"] }A basic example is seen below. Please check out the documentation for more.
use faiss::{Index, index_factory, MetricType};
let mut index = index_factory(64, "Flat", MetricType::L2)?;
index.add(&my_data)?;
let result = index.search(&my_query, 5)?;
for (i, (l, d)) in result.labels.iter()
.zip(result.distances.iter())
.enumerate()
{
println!("#{}: {} (D={})", i + 1, *l, *d);
}Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
This work is not affiliated with Facebook AI Research or the main Faiss software.
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