Comment by mpaepper
10 months ago
Nope... It IS using a vector database / faiss embedings for the semantic search.
Check the indexer: https://github.com/Olow304/memvid/blob/main/memvid/index.py
10 months ago
Nope... It IS using a vector database / faiss embedings for the semantic search.
Check the indexer: https://github.com/Olow304/memvid/blob/main/memvid/index.py
Indeed, they use FAISS for vector search, and the actual innovation is to store PDFs in a MP4 file. I think they should compare this to just compressing PDFs using ZIP, 7z, or RAR to see if it actually makes things better.