beir-cellar
On the dependency `faiss`
Hi, I noticed that your beir==0.2.3 depends on faiss-cpu. While in your NeurIPS'2021 paper, you benchmarked several dense retrieval models on GPU. Did you use faiss-gpu for that? Have you considered update the dependency of beir to faiss-gpu?
Hi @jordane95,
We benchmark using exact-search and not faiss for the NeurIPS paper which used the GPU. You can check this example: https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/benchmarking/benchmark_sbert.py
Updating faiss-cpu to faiss-gpu could be interesting, however last time I checked we find issues in downloading faiss-gpu using PyPI. We decided to go with faiss-cpu for now for others to work on it easily. It will be interesting to integrate faiss-gpu in the future!
Kind regards, Nandan
