How Clearview developed its method for fast search on an above-billion scale database

Databases used in facial recognition are growing to previously-unseen scale, which for Clearview AI created a need to develop a more efficient way to search them. Now, the company has moved to patent its new method for indexing vectors to enable database searches at scale.

‘Methods and Systems for Indexing Embedding Vectors Representing Disjoint Classes at Above-Billion Scale for Fast High-Recall Retrieval’ was filed under U.S. patent application number 18/214,782 on Tuesday.

Clearview VP of Machine Learning and Research Terence …

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