Make Sklearn KMeans 20x times faster

The KMeans algorithm is commonly used to cluster unlabeled data. But with large datasets, scikit-learn takes plenty of time to train and predict.

To speed-up KMeans, use Faiss by Facebook AI Research. It provides faster nearest-neighbor search and clustering.

Faiss uses "Inverted Index", an optimized data structure to store and index the data points. This makes performing clustering extremely efficient.

Additionally, Faiss provides parallelization and GPU support, which further improves the performance of its clustering algorithms.

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