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The complete series adds the index format, graph-building pipeline, C++/C/Python/Rust interfaces, CPU-GPU request queues, serialization, benchmarks, and tests needed to run FlowANN in cuVS. The integration reuses the CAGRA search cores through a graph provider. FlowANN is exposed as an experimental tiered graph storage mode through cuvs::neighbors::cagra, selected with index_params.graph_storage = graph_storage_kind::tiered. FlowANN is excluded from the default cuVS build.
The branch for step 1 of twelve is zhr/flowann-v3-01-provider, with 3dd62c143c78f3a019eecfee9fbae11cebe0d580 as its immediate dependency. The native baseline is NVIDIA/cuvs commit 3dd62c143c78f3a019eecfee9fbae11cebe0d580.
Steps 1 through 10 form a stack. Steps 11 and 12 both start directly from step 10, so Python and Rust can be reviewed in parallel.
The incremental change contains 2 files, 358 additions and 179 deletions. Compare with the immediate dependency to review this stage. A comparison with the main branch also includes any unmerged predecessors.
Refactor CAGRA traversal to accept graph providers
2/12
Add graph storage and the CUDA-copy queue runtime
3/12
Add optional GDRCopy queue transport
4/12
Add single-CTA tiered graph search for dense vectors
5/12
Add multi-CTA tiered graph search
6/12
Add dense index construction with grouping and reordering
7/12
Add VPQ vector compression to tiered construction and search
8/12
Expose owning tiered CAGRA indexes and persistence through C++
9/12
Add native benchmarks and the cuVS-bench backend
10/12
Add C bindings and synchronize raw Rust FFI
11/12
Add Python bindings and lifecycle tests
12/12
Add Rust bindings and native lifecycle tests
Scope of this PR
Extract graph access in the existing single-CTA and multi-CTA traversal kernels into a provider interface.
Keep the resident CAGRA graph behind a direct provider and preserve the existing traversal entry points.
Share candidate expansion and visited-state handling with future providers while keeping the existing vector-distance path.
Implementation in cuVS
CAGRA traversal currently reads adjacency rows directly from the resident graph. The refactor makes that access explicit so a later implementation can request a row from host memory without copying the traversal algorithm. The direct provider continues to serve the existing device graph. Both kernel variants preserve their current call sites through forwarding entry points, so callers can adopt the refactor without a public API change.
Define the provider operations used by traversal
Both search_single_cta_jit.cuh and search_multi_cta_jit.cuh make the graph provider a template parameter of the shared search core. The provider supplies initialization, seed selection, candidate-buffer sizing, neighbor expansion and finalization. The multi-CTA provider also describes how seeds are distributed among blocks. These operations give a later provider a place to manage asynchronous graph access while the existing search core continues to order candidates and maintain visited state.
Preserve the resident-graph implementation
The device_graph_provider holds the existing adjacency pointer and graph degree. Its expansion operation calls the existing child-node distance routine, and its initialization and finalization require no additional runtime state. The resident provider keeps the existing seed pointer calculation and candidate counts. The original entry points forward to the provider-based implementation, including the existing partitioned call sites.
Keep the refactor independently usable
The change is confined to the two shared traversal headers. It introduces no FlowANN allocation, host service thread, graph format or public parameter. Vector-distance calculation, candidate sorting and result production remain in the existing CAGRA implementation. This boundary lets the full resident CAGRA dtype suites exercise the refactor before any tiered runtime or new search path is added.
Behavior after this PR
Existing resident-graph CAGRA construction, search and C bindings remain available. The changed files contain the traversal refactor only. FlowANN storage, queues, feature flags and new search entry points start in later PRs.
Review focus
Check that the direct provider reads the same adjacency rows and that candidate selection, traversal termination and result IDs retain their existing meaning in both kernel variants.
Step 1 contains only the graph-provider refactor and uses the existing cuVS build and test targets without FlowANN options. Search and storage options arrive in step 2, the builder option in step 6, and benchmark options in step 9.
Testing and validation
Test results at this branch commit
The counts below come from the saved validation records for this branch commit, 4a99eaad3d2fc62388bca4c311d6cae32d1e3820. Conditional skips are listed separately.
Check
Result
Conditional skips
Native library and relevant test-target build
Passed
N/A
CAGRA C API
15 passed, zero failures
0
CAGRA float
1228 passed, zero failures
932
CAGRA half
874 passed, zero failures
824
CAGRA helper
79 passed, zero failures
0
CAGRA int8
626 passed, zero failures
358
CAGRA uint8
687 passed, zero failures
297
Test coverage and environment
Configured CMake and completed the full native library and relevant test-target build at this branch commit.
The complete float32, float16, int8 and uint8 CAGRA suites and helper tests passed 3494 cases, with 2411 conditional skips and zero failures.
All 15 CAGRA C API tests passed.
Native validation used CUDA 13.1, SM90 and GCC 13 with multi-GPU and CAGRA/HNSW support. Queue runtime tests used CUDA-copy transport.
Step 1 adds no FlowANN runtime path. Conditional skips in the existing tests are recorded separately from passes.
The final native branch also passed a full library build and existing CAGRA/C API regression checks with FlowANN disabled. That check is recorded at the final branch and is separate from this stage's own build and tests.
Performance results
Native benchmark measured during this split
The following results were measured later in the series, at step 9 commit bbf098a0f25c177a38a51685efb65e35f4a27d7d. They are retained as full-series integration evidence. They are not measurements of this branch, and do not imply that this stage already includes the later builder, public interface or benchmark tooling.
The recorded workflow uses 4,096 vectors with 32 dimensions, 64 queries and exact CPU squared-L2 ground truth at top-k=10. The input contains 16 Gaussian clusters, with queries formed by perturbing dataset rows. Construction uses graph degree 16, intermediate degree 32, VPQ dimension 8 with 8-bit codes, 64 VQ centers, four groups and a 32,768-byte resident graph budget. Search uses CUDA-copy transport, two queues, itopk=128, 128 rerank candidates and a maximum of 64 iterations. Each configuration has one warmup and three measured rounds.
Algorithm
Batch
Requested / actual queries
Median search time per batch (ms)
Median total time per batch (ms)
Median QPS
Median Recall@10
single_cta
1
0 / 64
0.631736
0.650496
1,537.288
1.000000
multi_cta
64
0 / 64
2.131919
2.615642
24,468.180
0.978125
multi_cta
64
96 / 64
1.987810
2.322291
27,558.992
0.975000
The timing columns summarize each metric independently across the three rounds. QPS includes query search and CPU reranking; loading, initial setup and warmup are excluded. query_count=0 selects all available queries, and a request for 96 queries executes the 64 available rows. Every measured round met Recall@10 >= 0.95. These are small-workload measurements of the benchmark workflow, with no unsplit-versus-split speedup claim.
Historical CAGRA API integration check
The following results are retained from the original complete PR #2675. They compare the direct FlowANN entry point with the unified CAGRA API using the same search engine and hierarchical Wiki88M index. They were not rerun at this branch commit and do not measure Python or Rust wrapper overhead.
Batch
itopk / iterations / width / candidates
Direct FlowANN QPS
CAGRA API QPS
Relative QPS
Direct Recall range
CAGRA API Recall range
1
256/32/2/32
2,018.3
2,022.7
+0.21%
0.98655
0.98565 to 0.98675
10,000
256/90/2/64
159,236.5
158,405.9
-0.52%
0.99078 to 0.99079
0.99078 to 0.99079
QPS is the median of process-level medians and includes query transfer and CPU exact reranking. Batch 1 uses 2,000 queries, multi-CTA/team32, two rerank threads, one queue and 128 seeds. One control process and two API processes each have one warmup and one measured round. Batch 10,000 uses 10,000 queries, single-CTA/team8, 90 rerank threads, 44 queues and 200 seeds. Three control processes and four API processes each have one warmup and five measured rounds, with additional large-batch runs alternating API and control. Queue statistics and persistent pollers are enabled in both paths. The representative checks showed no consistent API overhead; they do not establish equivalence for every configuration.
Historical Wiki88M FlowANN versus sharded CAGRA
The corrected September 20/23, 2026 system sweep from the original PR is retained below. It compares one GPU running FlowANN with two GPUs running sharded CAGRA, using the hardware and run environment recorded in that PR. FlowANN uses GDRCopy in this historical sweep; the current split runtime checks use CUDA-copy.
The dataset contains 87,555,327 base vectors, 10,000 queries and 768 dimensions. Both systems use graph degree 32, VPQ 192 x 8-bit codes and 10,000 VQ centers, with Recall@10 evaluated against the first ten ground-truth IDs. Their graphs, trained codebooks, sharding and entry points differ. This is a comparison of the complete systems at specified recall thresholds, rather than an experiment that changes only the search kernel.
For batch 1, the tools issue 10,000 sequential searches with multi-CTA/team32 and two CPU rerank threads. Batch 10,000 uses single-CTA/team8 and 90 rerank threads. FlowANN uses one queue and 128 seeds for batch 1, and 44 queues and 200 seeds for batch 10,000. Its remaining settings include six groups, 24-bit local IDs, a 7,529,758,208-byte resident graph budget, sync_window_scale=10 and sync_drop_threshold=51. Both systems use hashmap_min_bitlen=14.
Each selected configuration has three independent process runs. At each threshold, the table selects the highest median QPS whose minimum measured recall meets that threshold. Reported recall is that minimum; configuration means itopk / max_iterations / search_width / rerank_candidates. QPS includes query transfer, GPU search, candidate preparation and CPU exact reranking. It excludes index loading, initial JIT compilation and recall calculation. Relative QPS is the raw throughput ratio minus one, without GPU-count normalization.
Batch
Recall threshold
FlowANN QPS / actual Recall / configuration
Sharded CAGRA QPS / actual Recall / configuration
FlowANN relative QPS
1
0.90
3,260.3 / 0.94275 / 512/16/2/32
4,390.2 / 0.95577 / 512/16/2/32
-25.7%
1
0.95
2,793.6 / 0.97446 / 512/20/2/32
4,390.2 / 0.95577 / 512/16/2/32
-36.4%
1
0.99
2,184.3 / 0.99036 / 512/28/2/32
2,905.4 / 0.99092 / 512/28/32/32
-24.8%
10,000
0.90
428,998.2 / 0.91498 / 512/28/2/16
418,951.8 / 0.90688 / 64/28/2/32
+2.4%
10,000
0.95
273,877.4 / 0.97549 / 512/28/4/32
271,524.2 / 0.95504 / 512/28/4/32
+0.9%
10,000
0.99
175,850.9 / 0.99085 / 512/28/8/32
Not reached; highest measured Recall: 194,866.9 / 0.97614 / 512/28/8/32
N/A
At batch 1, FlowANN reaches 74.3%, 63.6% and 75.2% of the two-GPU CAGRA QPS at the respective thresholds. At batch 10,000, the median differences are +2.4% and +0.9% at recall targets 0.90 and 0.95. The QPS ranges overlap at 0.95, so that median difference does not establish a stable advantage. CAGRA's failure to reach 0.99 within the measured settings does not imply that other settings cannot reach it. The historical measurements do not establish performance parity between the original integration and these twelve branches.
Preservation of the complete implementation
Combining the Python branch from step 11 and the Rust branch from step 12 reproduces the complete integration at commit 8a774792167759e1eb7d34942d46021730e2debc, except for the internal split documentation in cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/README.md. Incremental patch reconstruction and both application orders of the language patches have been checked. The comparison covers the final combined implementation. Intermediate stages contain their own and preceding functionality, with their build and test results recorded above.
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- Around line 502-508: Update the invalid-slot branch around result_index so it
preserves the previous null-source output value while continuing to skip the
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Bug Fixes
Invalid search-result slots are now reported as invalid rather than being mapped to source indices.
Multi-partition searches use each partition’s graph degree during traversal, improving consistency when partitions have different graph sizes.
Both CTA search implementations now use graph providers for search setup and graph expansion. The wrappers pass provider instances to the search core. The single-CTA path also tracks computed candidates for sorting and filtering, initializes unused slots, and writes invalid indices directly.
Changes: CAGRA JIT search
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Provider contract and search setup cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/jit_lto_kernels/search_multi_cta_jit.cuh, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/jit_lto_kernels/search_single_cta_jit.cuh
Both search cores accept a graph provider. The provider supplies buffer sizing and initial search parameters.
Expansion and candidate accounting cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/jit_lto_kernels/search_multi_cta_jit.cuh, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/jit_lto_kernels/search_single_cta_jit.cuh
Both search cores delegate graph expansion to the provider. The single-CTA path tracks computed children for sorting and filtering, initializes unused slots, and writes invalid indices directly for invalid results.
Standard, persistent, single-partition, and multi-partition wrappers pass graph providers to the search core. Multi-partition wrappers use each partition’s degree for traversal and max_graph_degree for buffer sizing.
No actionable merge-blocking issue is established for this provider refactor. Normal validation remains appropriate before merging.
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The description is clearly related to the changeset. It describes a step 1 refactor of CAGRA traversal kernels to accept graph providers, introduces the device_graph_provider that keeps the resident adjacency graph, and states that the change is confined to the two shared traversal headers. Its scope, implementation, and test notes match the raw summary, which covers the search_single_cta_jit.cuh and search_multi_cta_jit.cuh provider refactor. The long sections on later FlowANN steps and historical benchmarks are extra context, but they do not make the description off-topic.
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#!/bin/bash# Check how invalid/sentinel neighbor indices are consumed after the single-CTA kernel.
rg -nP --type=cpp --type=cuda -C3 'invalid|get_max_value<|upper_bound<|index_msb_1_mask' cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/search_single_cta_kernel_launcher_jit.cuh cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_search.cuh
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# Find definitions and uses of the sentinel, MSB mask, source-index mapping, and result consumers.
rg -n -F -e 'to_source_index' -e 'invalid_index' -e 'index_msb_1_mask' -e 'get_max_value' -- cpp/src/neighbors cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors cpp/tests/neighbors ||test"$?" -eq 1
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Document the invalid-slot output change for the null source-index path.
For invalid slots with source_indices_ptr == nullptr, the emitted value changes from 0x7fffffff to 0xffffffff for uint32_t indices. The old path cleared the MSB before to_source_index. The new branch writes the all-ones sentinel directly. If SourceIndexT is wider than IndexT, the cast zero-extends the all-ones value. The result is not the maximum of SourceIndexT.
The new branch also avoids reading source_indices_ptr[...] at the sentinel index. Keep that benefit.
This is a refactor. The PR text does not state that the emitted sentinel is unchanged. Either state the sentinel change in the PR, or keep the old emitted value for the null-source case while still skipping the sentinel read. Check whether downstream consumers of the neighbor output depend on 0x7fffffff. The multi-CTA path already writes all-ones for empty slots, so the new value may be the intended sentinel.
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Overview
This series integrates FlowANN from our OSDI 2026 paper Disentangling Graph Dependencies for Efficient Billion-Scale GPU Vector Search into cuVS. FlowANN keeps a compressed subset of graph edges on the GPU, stores the remaining edges in CPU memory, and fetches CPU-resident edges asynchronously during search.
The complete series adds the index format, graph-building pipeline, C++/C/Python/Rust interfaces, CPU-GPU request queues, serialization, benchmarks, and tests needed to run FlowANN in cuVS. The integration reuses the CAGRA search cores through a graph provider. FlowANN is exposed as an experimental tiered graph storage mode through
cuvs::neighbors::cagra, selected withindex_params.graph_storage = graph_storage_kind::tiered. FlowANN is excluded from the default cuVS build.co-author: Haoru Zhao zhaohaoru@sjtu.edu.cn, Jingkai He hjk020101@sjtu.edu.cn, Jingyao Zeng zengjingyao@sjtu.edu.cn, Shenghan Gao gsh20040816@gmail.com
Role in the series
The branch for step 1 of twelve is
zhr/flowann-v3-01-provider, with3dd62c143c78f3a019eecfee9fbae11cebe0d580as its immediate dependency. The native baseline is NVIDIA/cuvs commit3dd62c143c78f3a019eecfee9fbae11cebe0d580.Steps 1 through 10 form a stack. Steps 11 and 12 both start directly from step 10, so Python and Rust can be reviewed in parallel.
The incremental change contains 2 files, 358 additions and 179 deletions. Compare with the immediate dependency to review this stage. A comparison with the main branch also includes any unmerged predecessors.
The series follows the split discussed in PR #2932. See the original complete PR #2675 for the full integration background.
Scope of this PR
Implementation in cuVS
CAGRA traversal currently reads adjacency rows directly from the resident graph. The refactor makes that access explicit so a later implementation can request a row from host memory without copying the traversal algorithm. The direct provider continues to serve the existing device graph. Both kernel variants preserve their current call sites through forwarding entry points, so callers can adopt the refactor without a public API change.
Define the provider operations used by traversal
Both
search_single_cta_jit.cuhandsearch_multi_cta_jit.cuhmake the graph provider a template parameter of the shared search core. The provider supplies initialization, seed selection, candidate-buffer sizing, neighbor expansion and finalization. The multi-CTA provider also describes how seeds are distributed among blocks. These operations give a later provider a place to manage asynchronous graph access while the existing search core continues to order candidates and maintain visited state.Preserve the resident-graph implementation
The
device_graph_providerholds the existing adjacency pointer and graph degree. Its expansion operation calls the existing child-node distance routine, and its initialization and finalization require no additional runtime state. The resident provider keeps the existing seed pointer calculation and candidate counts. The original entry points forward to the provider-based implementation, including the existing partitioned call sites.Keep the refactor independently usable
The change is confined to the two shared traversal headers. It introduces no FlowANN allocation, host service thread, graph format or public parameter. Vector-distance calculation, candidate sorting and result production remain in the existing CAGRA implementation. This boundary lets the full resident CAGRA dtype suites exercise the refactor before any tiered runtime or new search path is added.
Behavior after this PR
Existing resident-graph CAGRA construction, search and C bindings remain available. The changed files contain the traversal refactor only. FlowANN storage, queues, feature flags and new search entry points start in later PRs.
Review focus
Check that the direct provider reads the same adjacency rows and that candidate selection, traversal termination and result IDs retain their existing meaning in both kernel variants.
Build and usage scope
Step 1 contains only the graph-provider refactor and uses the existing cuVS build and test targets without FlowANN options. Search and storage options arrive in step 2, the builder option in step 6, and benchmark options in step 9.
Testing and validation
Test results at this branch commit
The counts below come from the saved validation records for this branch commit,
4a99eaad3d2fc62388bca4c311d6cae32d1e3820. Conditional skips are listed separately.Test coverage and environment
Configured CMake and completed the full native library and relevant test-target build at this branch commit.
The complete float32, float16, int8 and uint8 CAGRA suites and helper tests passed 3494 cases, with 2411 conditional skips and zero failures.
All 15 CAGRA C API tests passed.
Native validation used CUDA 13.1, SM90 and GCC 13 with multi-GPU and CAGRA/HNSW support. Queue runtime tests used CUDA-copy transport.
Step 1 adds no FlowANN runtime path. Conditional skips in the existing tests are recorded separately from passes.
The final native branch also passed a full library build and existing CAGRA/C API regression checks with FlowANN disabled. That check is recorded at the final branch and is separate from this stage's own build and tests.
Performance results
Native benchmark measured during this split
The following results were measured later in the series, at step 9 commit
bbf098a0f25c177a38a51685efb65e35f4a27d7d. They are retained as full-series integration evidence. They are not measurements of this branch, and do not imply that this stage already includes the later builder, public interface or benchmark tooling.The recorded workflow uses 4,096 vectors with 32 dimensions, 64 queries and exact CPU squared-L2 ground truth at
top-k=10. The input contains 16 Gaussian clusters, with queries formed by perturbing dataset rows. Construction uses graph degree 16, intermediate degree 32, VPQ dimension 8 with 8-bit codes, 64 VQ centers, four groups and a 32,768-byte resident graph budget. Search uses CUDA-copy transport, two queues,itopk=128, 128 rerank candidates and a maximum of 64 iterations. Each configuration has one warmup and three measured rounds.single_ctamulti_ctamulti_ctaThe timing columns summarize each metric independently across the three rounds. QPS includes query search and CPU reranking; loading, initial setup and warmup are excluded.
query_count=0selects all available queries, and a request for 96 queries executes the 64 available rows. Every measured round met Recall@10 >= 0.95. These are small-workload measurements of the benchmark workflow, with no unsplit-versus-split speedup claim.Historical CAGRA API integration check
The following results are retained from the original complete PR #2675. They compare the direct FlowANN entry point with the unified CAGRA API using the same search engine and hierarchical Wiki88M index. They were not rerun at this branch commit and do not measure Python or Rust wrapper overhead.
256/32/2/32256/90/2/64QPS is the median of process-level medians and includes query transfer and CPU exact reranking. Batch 1 uses 2,000 queries, multi-CTA/team32, two rerank threads, one queue and 128 seeds. One control process and two API processes each have one warmup and one measured round. Batch 10,000 uses 10,000 queries, single-CTA/team8, 90 rerank threads, 44 queues and 200 seeds. Three control processes and four API processes each have one warmup and five measured rounds, with additional large-batch runs alternating API and control. Queue statistics and persistent pollers are enabled in both paths. The representative checks showed no consistent API overhead; they do not establish equivalence for every configuration.
Historical Wiki88M FlowANN versus sharded CAGRA
The corrected September 20/23, 2026 system sweep from the original PR is retained below. It compares one GPU running FlowANN with two GPUs running sharded CAGRA, using the hardware and run environment recorded in that PR. FlowANN uses GDRCopy in this historical sweep; the current split runtime checks use CUDA-copy.
The dataset contains 87,555,327 base vectors, 10,000 queries and 768 dimensions. Both systems use graph degree 32, VPQ 192 x 8-bit codes and 10,000 VQ centers, with Recall@10 evaluated against the first ten ground-truth IDs. Their graphs, trained codebooks, sharding and entry points differ. This is a comparison of the complete systems at specified recall thresholds, rather than an experiment that changes only the search kernel.
For batch 1, the tools issue 10,000 sequential searches with multi-CTA/team32 and two CPU rerank threads. Batch 10,000 uses single-CTA/team8 and 90 rerank threads. FlowANN uses one queue and 128 seeds for batch 1, and 44 queues and 200 seeds for batch 10,000. Its remaining settings include six groups, 24-bit local IDs, a 7,529,758,208-byte resident graph budget,
sync_window_scale=10andsync_drop_threshold=51. Both systems usehashmap_min_bitlen=14.Each selected configuration has three independent process runs. At each threshold, the table selects the highest median QPS whose minimum measured recall meets that threshold. Reported recall is that minimum; configuration means
itopk / max_iterations / search_width / rerank_candidates. QPS includes query transfer, GPU search, candidate preparation and CPU exact reranking. It excludes index loading, initial JIT compilation and recall calculation. Relative QPS is the raw throughput ratio minus one, without GPU-count normalization.512/16/2/32512/16/2/32512/20/2/32512/16/2/32512/28/2/32512/28/32/32512/28/2/1664/28/2/32512/28/4/32512/28/4/32512/28/8/32512/28/8/32At batch 1, FlowANN reaches 74.3%, 63.6% and 75.2% of the two-GPU CAGRA QPS at the respective thresholds. At batch 10,000, the median differences are +2.4% and +0.9% at recall targets 0.90 and 0.95. The QPS ranges overlap at 0.95, so that median difference does not establish a stable advantage. CAGRA's failure to reach 0.99 within the measured settings does not imply that other settings cannot reach it. The historical measurements do not establish performance parity between the original integration and these twelve branches.
Preservation of the complete implementation
Combining the Python branch from step 11 and the Rust branch from step 12 reproduces the complete integration at commit
8a774792167759e1eb7d34942d46021730e2debc, except for the internal split documentation incpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/README.md. Incremental patch reconstruction and both application orders of the language patches have been checked. The comparison covers the final combined implementation. Intermediate stages contain their own and preceding functionality, with their build and test results recorded above.Co-authored-by: Jingkai He hjk020101@sjtu.edu.cn