What exactly is faiss-gpu on Pypi?

[bricksdont]

I succesfully installed the faiss-cpu package from Pypi:

pip install faiss-cpu

Then I noticed that there is also faiss-gpu:

https://pypi.org/project/faiss-gpu/

But what exactly is in this package? Building from source (https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/blob/master/INSTALL.md) requires specifying a particular version of CUDA. Which version of CUDA does this package expect?

In case this package is not built with CUDA, follow-up question: what is the purpose of the package?

[bricksdont]

@kyamagu

[kyamagu]

@bricksdont faiss-cpu and faiss-gpu on pypi are unofficially built wheels. You can check how they are built in this repo.

c.f. #170

[bricksdont]

Thanks! Closing.