Building a semantic search engine with Transformers and Faiss

This repository contains the code for the following Medium blogs:

• How to build a semantic search engine with Transformers and Faiss
• How to deploy a machine learning model on AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Streamlit and Docker

Check out the blogs if you want to learn how to create a semantic search engine with Sentence Transformers and Faiss.

You can run the notebook on Google Colab and leverage the free GPU to speed up the computation!

How to deploy the Streamlit app locally with Docker

Assuming docker is running on your machine and you have a docker account, do the following:

• Build the image

docker build -t <USERNAME>/<YOUR_IMAGE_NAME> .

• Run the image

docker run -p 8501:8501 <USERNAME>/<YOUR_IMAGE_NAME>

• Open your browser and go to http://localhost:8501/