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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 4 of twelve is zhr/flowann-v3-04-single-cta, with zhr/flowann-v3-03-gdrcopy 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.
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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
Implement a tiered graph provider that requests host rows while reusing CAGRA candidate traversal.
Add the single-CTA planner, launch path, JIT fragments and generated kernel matrix for dense vector types.
Add search correctness and parameter tests for the single-CTA path.
Implementation in cuVS
One CUDA thread block handles each query through the single-CTA search path. The provider serves resident edges directly and obtains missing host adjacency through the queue runtime. Planning and kernel generation cover the dense representations available in this stage. AUTO selects the available single-CTA implementation. An explicit request for an unavailable algorithm is rejected instead of referring to a later implementation.
Expand resident and host edges through one provider
The tiered_graph_provider decodes packed device rows and submits requests for adjacency stored on the host. It supplies candidates to the CAGRA search core introduced in step 1, so visited-node handling, candidate selection and distance evaluation remain shared. Packed-row decoding handles rows crossing byte boundaries and the alignments produced by 24-bit local IDs. Source-index mapping restores input IDs when results are written.
Track pending requests and reclaim their buffers
The provider maintains pending requests while resident-edge work can continue. sync_window_scale and sync_drop_threshold control when deferred host work must be synchronized. Ready host rows can be consumed over multiple expansions when the candidate capacity is smaller than the row payload. Their reservations remain owned until the payload has been consumed, and finalization waits for outstanding requests before releasing them. Optional fixed-seed cross-edge caches participate in the first expansion.
Plan and compile the single-CTA path
The launcher and planner connect dense dataset descriptors, query types, shared workspace and the provider to the JIT kernel. The fragment declarations and generation matrix register the required specializations through cuVS's existing JIT infrastructure. One CUDA block processes each query. AUTO resolves to this available implementation, while explicitly requesting the not-yet-added multi-CTA path produces an error. Search also checks that its context belongs to the correct CUDA device.
Behavior after this PR
An internally prepared dense tiered graph can now be searched with single-CTA execution. The stage is a complete search path over the storage and runtime already merged. Multi-CTA, index construction and public owning wrappers are added separately.
Review focus
Check host-row request completion before consumption, candidate and result ordering, original-ID handling, AUTO dispatch and rejection of unsupported algorithms.
The example explicitly selects CUDA-copy transport. GDRCopy is available from step 3 and requires its development library and a working runtime driver. The builder option arrives in step 6 and benchmark options in step 9. The example enables only options present in this stage. FlowANN is disabled by default.
Testing and validation
Test results at this branch commit
The counts below come from the saved validation records for this branch commit, 56f36a409efaf26708d103284772e4362a3a283c. Conditional skips are listed separately.
Check
Result
Conditional skips
Native library and relevant test-target build
Passed
N/A
FlowANN cold launch in a separate process
1 passed, zero failures
0
FlowANN unit and regression tests present in this stage
21 passed, zero failures
0
Compute Sanitizer memcheck
Zero errors in the non-cold FlowANN suite
N/A
Test coverage and environment
Configured CMake and completed the full native library and relevant test-target build at this branch commit.
All 22 FlowANN tests present in this stage passed. The cold-launch case ran in a separate process. 0 tests were skipped.
Compute Sanitizer memcheck passed for the non-cold FlowANN suite, with zero reported errors.
Native validation used CUDA 13.1, SM90 and GCC 13 with multi-GPU and CAGRA/HNSW support. Queue runtime tests used CUDA-copy transport.
Validation results refer to this branch commit. GDRCopy runtime remains untested because the environment has no /dev/gdrdrv. Billion-scale throughput and a measured performance comparison against the unsplit PR were not rerun.
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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Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_jit.cuh:
- Around line 506-520: In the expansion loop, invalidate unused candidate slots
from state->total_children to candidate_capacity(search_width), setting their
indices and distances to the existing invalid and upper-bound sentinels before
the radix path sorts the full buffer; apply this only when the buffer is the
radix candidate buffer, not when result_position indicates another output. Add a
search test exercising more than 256 itopk candidates and verify that returned
neighbors are unique.
- Around line 361-371: Update the batch handling around try_reserve_deferred and
state->pending so pending rows are fully consumed and released before adding a
batch that could exceed capacity, without discarding existing rows. If
reservation still fails, retain the commands and their parent IDs and retry or
wait rather than dropping them; submit_batch should run only after reservation
succeeds.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta.cuh:
- Around line 414-485: Update context_run_guard to retain the CUDA stream and
synchronize it without throwing before releasing the search lease when the guard
is still active. Pass stream at the context_run_guard construction in the batch
search flow; preserve the existing normal-path pause behavior.
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Summary
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New Features
Added experimental FlowANN search for CUDA builds, available as an optional alternative for supported vector data types and search filters.
Added reusable search contexts with pause and resume controls, plus optional queue statistics.
Bug Fixes
Search results now preserve invalid neighbor indices rather than mapping them to source indices.
This pull request adds an experimental FlowANN search path with graph and dataset interfaces, host-managed queues, and single-CTA CUDA search. It adapts CAGRA search cores to graph providers and adds conditional build configuration and tests for FlowANN.
CAGRA search cores now use graph providers for setup, capacity selection, expansion, and finalization. The existing graph wrappers provide the prior single-graph behavior. Output conversion preserves invalid indices instead of mapping them through source indices.
Define FlowANN index and queue interfaces cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/flowann.hpp, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/queue.cuh, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/README.md
The new interfaces define FlowANN index storage, graph updates and validation, seed and subgraph metadata, search parameters, contexts, sessions, and queue operations.
Implement host queues and context lifecycle cpp/src/neighbors/flowann_queue.cpp
The host implementation allocates queue storage, transfers cross-graph rows, and runs poller threads. Search contexts and sessions coordinate pause and resume with active searches and propagate poller failures.
Build and dispatch FlowANN CUDA search cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/*, cpp/src/neighbors/flowann.cu, cpp/CMakeLists.txt
The single-CTA path adds planning, JIT launch configuration, packed-neighbor decoding, queue-backed expansion, search dispatch, and dataset norm computation. CMake conditionally configures and links FlowANN and generates its search kernel.
Validate queues, search, and storage cpp/tests/CMakeLists.txt, cpp/tests/neighbors/ann_cagra/flowann_*
Tests cover queue command publication, reservation and reclamation, context lifecycle, search results and packed graph layouts, and index storage validation. CMake registers the FlowANN test target and cold-start test.
NVIDIA/cuvs#2977: Changes CAGRA traversal to accept graph providers, which this pull request uses for FlowANN search.
Suggested labels:feature request, non-breaking, C++
Suggested reviewers:divyegala, viclafargue, bdice
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 56f36
The FlowANN single-CTA search can return duplicate neighbors for larger itopk/search-width configurations. It can also lose pending queue reservations under sustained expansion, and it can hang a stream if a batch launch fails midway. The feature is off by default, but these issues should be fixed before it is relied on.
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Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_jit.cuh:
- Around line 506-520: In the expansion loop, invalidate unused candidate slots
from state->total_children to candidate_capacity(search_width), setting their
indices and distances to the existing invalid and upper-bound sentinels before
the radix path sorts the full buffer; apply this only when the buffer is the
radix candidate buffer, not when result_position indicates another output. Add a
search test exercising more than 256 itopk candidates and verify that returned
neighbors are unique.
- Around line 361-371: Update the batch handling around try_reserve_deferred and
state->pending so pending rows are fully consumed and released before adding a
batch that could exceed capacity, without discarding existing rows. If
reservation still fails, retain the commands and their parent IDs and retry or
wait rather than dropping them; submit_batch should run only after reservation
succeeds.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta.cuh:
- Around line 414-485: Update context_run_guard to retain the CUDA stream and
synchronize it without throwing before releasing the search lease when the guard
is still active. Pass stream at the context_run_guard construction in the batch
search flow; preserve the existing normal-path pause behavior.
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- exact planner bounds ---'
nl -ba cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta.cuh | sed -n '40,115p;300,330p'printf'%s\n''--- exact single-CTA loop ---'
nl -ba cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/jit_lto_kernels/search_single_cta_jit.cuh | sed -n '330,380p'
Repository: NVIDIA/cuvs
Length of output: 8451
Bound pending growth and preserve failed reservations.
pending_queue has only 511 usable entries, and push() has no capacity check. The drain loop can consume fewer entries than the next batch adds. During repeated expansions, a later push can overwrite the oldest pending reservation. That reservation is then not released, so gpu_tail can stop at the lost sequence and keep later queue capacity unavailable.
When try_reserve_deferred fails 200 times, the local commands are neither submitted nor retained. Their parents can lose cross-graph expansion, which can reduce recall.
Ensure capacity before adding a batch without discarding pending rows. Fully consume and release rows, or defer the batch while preserving its parent IDs. If reservation remains unavailable, retry or wait instead of silently dropping the commands.
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around lines 361 - 371:
Update the batch handling around try_reserve_deferred and state->pending so
pending rows are fully consumed and released before adding a batch that could
exceed capacity, without discarding existing rows. If reservation still fails,
retain the commands and their parent IDs and retry or wait rather than dropping
them; submit_batch should run only after reservation succeeds.
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Invalidate candidate slots that the expansion leaves unused.
expand writes result_indices[i] only for i < state->total_children. It writes distances only for the same range. state->total_children is almost always smaller than candidate_capacity(search_width), for three reasons:
The capacity includes additional_buffer_width extra rows.
Cross rows are deferred.
Partial rows stop consumption.
The bitonic path is safe because it receives computed_children_this_iteration. The radix path is not safe. topk_by_radix_sort in search_core (the unchanged call with result_buffer_size) sorts the whole buffer every iteration. The tail slots still hold candidates from earlier iterations. Some of those candidates are already in the internal top-k, so they are merged again as duplicates.
The plan selects the radix path when num_itopk_candidates > 256, for example graph_degree = 64 with search_width >= 3. The current tests use degree 2, so they never reach this path. The result can contain duplicate neighbors, and parent slots are wasted.
The CAGRA device provider never had this problem, because it always fills all search_width * degree slots.
🐛 Proposed fix
store_child(child, i);
}
+ if (result_position == nullptr) {+ for (std::uint32_t i = threadIdx.x + state->total_children;+ i < candidate_capacity(search_width);+ i += blockDim.x) {+ result_indices[i] = invalid_index;+ result_distances[i] = raft::upper_bound<DistanceT>();+ }+ }
__syncthreads();
Add a search test with num_itopk_candidates > 256 that checks for unique neighbors.
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for (std::uint32_t i = threadIdx.x + state->total_inner_children; i < state->total_children;
i += blockDim.x) {
IndexT child = invalid_index;
auto local = i - state->total_inner_children;
for (std::uint32_t ready = 0; ready < state->ready_cross_count; ++ready) {
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Review comment at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_jit.cuh
around lines 506 - 520:
In the expansion loop, invalidate unused candidate slots from
state->total_children to candidate_capacity(search_width), setting their indices
and distances to the existing invalid and upper-bound sentinels before the radix
path sorts the full buffer; apply this only when the buffer is the radix
candidate buffer, not when result_position indicates another output. Add a
search test exercising more than 256 itopk candidates and verify that returned
neighbors are unique.
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Synchronize the stream before releasing the search lease on the exception path.
Batch N launches and starts waiting for host-serviced rows. It spins in result_ready.
The launch or the filter extraction for batch N+1 throws.
~context_run_guard calls release_search.
When active_searches_ reaches 0 (and no session is active), update_pollers pauses every poller.
The kernel from batch N never receives its rows. The stream hangs, so the next synchronization on res blocks forever.
Drain the stream in the guard before releasing the lease when the guard is still active. Ignore a secondary error from that drain.
🛡️ Proposed fix
class context_run_guard {
public:
- explicit context_run_guard(search_context& context) : context_(context)+ context_run_guard(search_context& context, cudaStream_t stream)+ : context_(context), stream_(stream)
{
search_context_access::acquire_search(context_);
}
@@
~context_run_guard()
{
if (active_) {
+ // Kernels already launched depend on the pollers; let them finish first.+ RAFT_CUDA_TRY_NO_THROW(cudaStreamSynchronize(stream_));
try {
@@
private:
search_context& context_;
+ cudaStream_t stream_;
bool active_{true};
};
@@
- context_run_guard running(context);+ context_run_guard running(context, stream);
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lines 414 - 485:
Update context_run_guard to retain the CUDA stream and synchronize it without
throwing before releasing the search lease when the guard is still active. Pass
stream at the context_run_guard construction in the batch search flow; preserve
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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 4 of twelve is
zhr/flowann-v3-04-single-cta, withzhr/flowann-v3-03-gdrcopyas 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 13 files, 2210 additions and 11 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
One CUDA thread block handles each query through the single-CTA search path. The provider serves resident edges directly and obtains missing host adjacency through the queue runtime. Planning and kernel generation cover the dense representations available in this stage. AUTO selects the available single-CTA implementation. An explicit request for an unavailable algorithm is rejected instead of referring to a later implementation.
Expand resident and host edges through one provider
The
tiered_graph_providerdecodes packed device rows and submits requests for adjacency stored on the host. It supplies candidates to the CAGRA search core introduced in step 1, so visited-node handling, candidate selection and distance evaluation remain shared. Packed-row decoding handles rows crossing byte boundaries and the alignments produced by 24-bit local IDs. Source-index mapping restores input IDs when results are written.Track pending requests and reclaim their buffers
The provider maintains pending requests while resident-edge work can continue.
sync_window_scaleandsync_drop_thresholdcontrol when deferred host work must be synchronized. Ready host rows can be consumed over multiple expansions when the candidate capacity is smaller than the row payload. Their reservations remain owned until the payload has been consumed, and finalization waits for outstanding requests before releasing them. Optional fixed-seed cross-edge caches participate in the first expansion.Plan and compile the single-CTA path
The launcher and planner connect dense dataset descriptors, query types, shared workspace and the provider to the JIT kernel. The fragment declarations and generation matrix register the required specializations through cuVS's existing JIT infrastructure. One CUDA block processes each query. AUTO resolves to this available implementation, while explicitly requesting the not-yet-added multi-CTA path produces an error. Search also checks that its context belongs to the correct CUDA device.
Behavior after this PR
An internally prepared dense tiered graph can now be searched with single-CTA execution. The stage is a complete search path over the storage and runtime already merged. Multi-CTA, index construction and public owning wrappers are added separately.
Review focus
Check host-row request completion before consumption, candidate and result ordering, original-ID handling, AUTO dispatch and rejection of unsupported algorithms.
Build and usage scope
The example explicitly selects CUDA-copy transport. GDRCopy is available from step 3 and requires its development library and a working runtime driver. The builder option arrives in step 6 and benchmark options in step 9. The example enables only options present in this stage. FlowANN is disabled by default.
Testing and validation
Test results at this branch commit
The counts below come from the saved validation records for this branch commit,
56f36a409efaf26708d103284772e4362a3a283c. 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.
All 22 FlowANN tests present in this stage passed. The cold-launch case ran in a separate process. 0 tests were skipped.
Compute Sanitizer memcheck passed for the non-cold FlowANN suite, with zero reported errors.
Native validation used CUDA 13.1, SM90 and GCC 13 with multi-GPU and CAGRA/HNSW support. Queue runtime tests used CUDA-copy transport.
Validation results refer to this branch commit. GDRCopy runtime remains untested because the environment has no
/dev/gdrdrv. Billion-scale throughput and a measured performance comparison against the unsplit PR were not rerun.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