Accelerating GPU indexes in Faiss with NVIDIA cuVS
May 8, 2025Junjie Qi, Gergely Szilvasy, Michael Norris, Vishal Gandhi

Summary
This post details the integration of NVIDIA cuVS into Meta's open-source Faiss library (v1.10), significantly accelerating GPU-based vector search. It highlights performance improvements in both inverted file (IVF) and graph indexing, showcasing substantial speedups in build times and reductions in search latency through collaboration with NVIDIA. This advancement extends Meta's capabilities in large-scale similarity search and AI infrastructure.