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Upgrade faiss to v1.15.1

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
86/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
json
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Open faiss_override.json and inspect how the current Faiss version and build settings are specified, then compare them with the v1.15.1 release. Update the override to target v1.15.1 and confirm that the dependency build succeeds.

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Description

faiss improvement

Faiss has released https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/releases/tag/v1.15.1 so we should update our faiss_override.json to build against the new version.

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Cuda
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Merged PRs (30d)
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