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[FlowANN step 1/12] Refactor CAGRA traversal to accept graph providers
ZhaoHaoRu Oct 29, 2026
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[FlowANN step 2/12] Add graph storage and the CUDA-copy queue runtime
ZhaoHaoRu Oct 29, 2026
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[FlowANN step 3/12] Add optional GDRCopy queue transport
ZhaoHaoRu Oct 29, 2026
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[FlowANN step 4/12] Add single-CTA tiered graph search for dense vectors
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[FlowANN step 5/12] Add multi-CTA tiered graph search
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102 changes: 99 additions & 3 deletions cpp/CMakeLists.txt
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Expand Up @@ -84,7 +84,16 @@ option(DISABLE_OPENMP "Disable OpenMP" OFF)
option(CUVS_COMPILE_DYNAMIC_ONLY "Only build the shared library and skip the static library." OFF)
option(CUVS_NVTX "Enable nvtx markers" OFF)
option(CUVS_RAFT_CLONE_ON_PIN "Explicitly clone RAFT branch when pinned to non-feature branch" ON)
option(CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH "Enable experimental FlowANN tiered-graph search" OFF)
option(CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_BUILD "Enable the experimental integrated FlowANN graph builder" OFF)
option(CUVS_FLOWANN_USE_GDRCOPY "Use GDRCopy for FlowANN GPU-to-CPU command queues" ON)

if(CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH AND BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
message(FATAL_ERROR "CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH requires a CUDA-enabled build")
endif()
if(CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_BUILD AND NOT CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH)
message(FATAL_ERROR "CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_BUILD requires CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH")
endif()
if(BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF)
set(BUILD_TESTS OFF)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -113,7 +122,6 @@ elseif(NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
set(cuvs_compile_mode "static_only")
set(_cuvs_lib_targets cuvs_static)
endif()

# Needed because GoogleBenchmark changes the state of FindThreads.cmake, causing subsequent runs to
# have different values for the `Threads::Threads` target. Setting this flag ensures
# `Threads::Threads` is the same value across all builds so that cache hits occur
Expand All @@ -127,6 +135,9 @@ message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Build cuVS unit-tests: ${BUILD_TESTS}")
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Build CPU only components: ${BUILD_CPU_ONLY}")
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Build ANN benchmarks: ${BUILD_CUVS_BENCH}")
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Build only the shared library: ${CUVS_COMPILE_DYNAMIC_ONLY}")
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Enable FlowANN tiered-graph search: ${CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH}")
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Enable FlowANN integrated build: ${CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_BUILD}")
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Use GDRCopy for FlowANN queues: ${CUVS_FLOWANN_USE_GDRCOPY}")
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Enable detection of conda environment for dependencies: ${DETECT_CONDA_ENV}")
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Disable deprecation warnings " ${DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS})
message(VERBOSE "cuVS: Disable OpenMP: ${DISABLE_OPENMP}")
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -169,6 +180,22 @@ if(NOT BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
BUILD_EXPORT_SET cuvs-exports
INSTALL_EXPORT_SET cuvs-exports
)

if(CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH AND CUVS_FLOWANN_USE_GDRCOPY)
rapids_find_generate_module(
GDRCopy
HEADER_NAMES gdrapi.h
LIBRARY_NAMES gdrapi
BUILD_EXPORT_SET cuvs-exports
INSTALL_EXPORT_SET cuvs-exports
)
rapids_find_package(
GDRCopy REQUIRED
BUILD_EXPORT_SET cuvs-exports
INSTALL_EXPORT_SET cuvs-exports
)
set(CUVS_FLOWANN_GDRCOPY_DEPENDENCIES GDRCopy::GDRCopy CUDA::cuda_driver)
endif()
else()
add_compile_definitions(BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
endif()
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -233,6 +260,10 @@ if(NOT BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
"$<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/include>"
"$<INSTALL_INTERFACE:include>"
)
target_compile_definitions(
cuvs_cpp_headers INTERFACE $<$<BOOL:${CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH}>:CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH>
$<$<BOOL:${CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_BUILD}>:CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_BUILD>
)
target_link_libraries(cuvs_cpp_headers INTERFACE raft::raft rmm::rmm)

generate_inst_matrix(
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -959,6 +990,44 @@ if(NOT BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/generated_kernels/cagra/search_single_cta"
KERNEL_LINK_LIBRARIES jit_lto_kernel_usage_requirements
)
if(CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH)
set(flowann_ns "cuvs::neighbors::cagra::experimental::flowann::detail")
generate_jit_lto_kernels(
jit_lto_files
NAME_FORMAT
"flowann_search_single_cta_@topk_by_bitonic_sort_str@_@bitonic_sort_and_merge_multi_warps_str@_data_@data_abbrev@"
MATRIX_JSON_FILE
"${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_matrix.json"
KERNEL_INPUT_FILE
"${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_kernel.cu.in"
FRAGMENT_TAG_FORMAT
"${flowann_ns}::fragment_tag_search_single_cta<${neighbors_ns}::tag_@data_abbrev@, ${neighbors_ns}::tag_index_@source_index_abbrev@, ${neighbors_ns}::tag_index_@index_abbrev@, ${cagra_ns}::tag_dist_@distance_abbrev@, @topk_by_bitonic_sort@, @bitonic_sort_and_merge_multi_warps@>"
FRAGMENT_TAG_HEADER_FILES
"<cuvs/detail/jit_lto/flowann/flowann_fragments.hpp>"
"<cuvs/detail/jit_lto/common_fragments.hpp>"
"<cuvs/detail/jit_lto/cagra/cagra_fragments.hpp>"
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/generated_kernels/flowann/search_single_cta"
KERNEL_LINK_LIBRARIES jit_lto_kernel_usage_requirements
KERNEL_EXTRA_COMPILE_OPTIONS --maxrregcount=64
)
generate_jit_lto_kernels(
jit_lto_files
NAME_FORMAT "flowann_search_multi_cta_data_@data_abbrev@"
MATRIX_JSON_FILE
"${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_multi_cta_matrix.json"
KERNEL_INPUT_FILE
"${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_multi_cta_kernel.cu.in"
FRAGMENT_TAG_FORMAT
"${flowann_ns}::fragment_tag_search_multi_cta<${neighbors_ns}::tag_@data_abbrev@, ${neighbors_ns}::tag_index_@source_index_abbrev@, ${neighbors_ns}::tag_index_@index_abbrev@, ${cagra_ns}::tag_dist_@distance_abbrev@>"
FRAGMENT_TAG_HEADER_FILES
"<cuvs/detail/jit_lto/flowann/flowann_fragments.hpp>"
"<cuvs/detail/jit_lto/common_fragments.hpp>"
"<cuvs/detail/jit_lto/cagra/cagra_fragments.hpp>"
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/generated_kernels/flowann/search_multi_cta"
KERNEL_LINK_LIBRARIES jit_lto_kernel_usage_requirements
KERNEL_EXTRA_COMPILE_OPTIONS --maxrregcount=64
)
endif()
generate_jit_lto_kernels(
jit_lto_files
NAME_FORMAT
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1486,6 +1555,9 @@ if(NOT BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
src/neighbors/brute_force.cu
src/neighbors/brute_force_serialize.cu
src/neighbors/cagra.cpp
$<$<BOOL:${CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH}>:src/neighbors/flowann.cu>
$<$<BOOL:${CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_BUILD}>:src/neighbors/flowann_build.cu>
$<$<BOOL:${CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH}>:src/neighbors/flowann_queue.cpp>
${cagra_build_inst_files}
${cagra_extend_inst_files}
src/neighbors/cagra_optimize.cu
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1592,6 +1664,12 @@ if(NOT BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
"$<$<AND:$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CUDA>,$<CONFIG:Debug>>:${CUVS_DEBUG_CUDA_FLAGS}>"
)

target_compile_definitions(
cuvs_objs
PRIVATE
$<$<AND:$<BOOL:${CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH}>,$<BOOL:${CUVS_FLOWANN_USE_GDRCOPY}>>:CUVS_FLOWANN_USE_GDRCOPY>
)

target_compile_definitions(
cuvs_objs
PRIVATE CUVS_CUTILE_ENABLED=${CUVS_CUTILE_ENABLED}
Expand All @@ -1608,6 +1686,7 @@ if(NOT BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
nvidia::cutlass::cutlass
rtcx::rtcx
${CUVS_CTK_MATH_DEPENDENCIES}
${CUVS_FLOWANN_GDRCOPY_DEPENDENCIES}
$<TARGET_NAME_IF_EXISTS:OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX>
$<TARGET_NAME_IF_EXISTS:hnswlib::hnswlib>
kvikio::kvikio
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1687,10 +1766,26 @@ if(NOT BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
$<BUILD_LOCAL_INTERFACE:$<TARGET_NAME_IF_EXISTS:NCCL::NCCL>>
$<BUILD_LOCAL_INTERFACE:$<TARGET_NAME_IF_EXISTS:hnswlib::hnswlib>>
$<$<BOOL:${CUVS_NVTX}>:CUDA::nvtx3>
PRIVATE $<TARGET_NAME_IF_EXISTS:OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX> $<COMPILE_ONLY:nvidia::cutlass::cutlass>
$<COMPILE_ONLY:cuco::cuco> CUDA::nvJitLink CUDA::nvrtc rtcx::rtcx kvikio::kvikio
PRIVATE $<TARGET_NAME_IF_EXISTS:OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX>
$<COMPILE_ONLY:nvidia::cutlass::cutlass>
$<COMPILE_ONLY:cuco::cuco>
CUDA::nvJitLink
CUDA::nvrtc
rtcx::rtcx
kvikio::kvikio
${CUVS_FLOWANN_GDRCOPY_DEPENDENCIES}
INTERFACE $<LINK_ONLY:kvikio::kvikio>
)
if(CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH)
target_link_libraries(cuvs INTERFACE $<LINK_ONLY:$<TARGET_NAME_IF_EXISTS:OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX>>)
endif()
if(CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_SEARCH AND CUVS_FLOWANN_USE_GDRCOPY)
# Consumers must resolve this runtime dependency even when it is installed outside the
# linker's default search paths. Its headers remain private to the queue implementation.
target_link_libraries(
cuvs INTERFACE $<LINK_ONLY:GDRCopy::GDRCopy> $<LINK_ONLY:CUDA::cuda_driver>
)
endif()

endif()

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1735,6 +1830,7 @@ if(NOT BUILD_CPU_ONLY)
CUDA::nvJitLink
CUDA::nvrtc
rtcx::rtcx
${CUVS_FLOWANN_GDRCOPY_DEPENDENCIES}
$<$<BOOL:${CUVS_NVTX}>:CUDA::nvtx3>
$<COMPILE_ONLY:nvidia::cutlass::cutlass>
$<COMPILE_ONLY:cuco::cuco>
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24 changes: 24 additions & 0 deletions cpp/include/cuvs/detail/jit_lto/flowann/flowann_fragments.hpp
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/*
* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
* SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
*
* FlowANN is described in "Disentangling Graph Dependencies for Efficient
* Billion-Scale GPU Vector Search" (OSDI 2026).
*/

#pragma once

namespace cuvs::neighbors::cagra::experimental::flowann::detail {

template <typename DataTag,
typename SourceIndexTag,
typename IndexTag,
typename DistanceTag,
bool TopkByBitonicSort,
bool BitonicSortAndMergeMultiWarps>
struct fragment_tag_search_single_cta {};

template <typename DataTag, typename SourceIndexTag, typename IndexTag, typename DistanceTag>
struct fragment_tag_search_multi_cta {};

} // namespace cuvs::neighbors::cagra::experimental::flowann::detail
50 changes: 50 additions & 0 deletions cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh
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Expand Up @@ -1057,6 +1057,56 @@ auto build_cagra_host_graph_from_knn_params(raft::resources const& res,
return cagra_graph;
}

/** Build only the final optimized host graph from a dense dataset view. */
template <typename T, typename IdxT = uint32_t, typename DatasetViewT>
requires cuvs::neighbors::is_dense_row_major_dataset_view_v<DatasetViewT>
auto build_graph(raft::resources const& res,
index_params const& params,
DatasetViewT const& dataset) -> raft::host_matrix<IdxT, int64_t>
{
auto const n_rows = static_cast<size_t>(dataset.n_rows());
auto const dim = static_cast<size_t>(dataset.dim());
auto intermediate_degree = params.intermediate_graph_degree;
auto graph_degree = params.graph_degree;
common::nvtx::range<common::nvtx::domain::cuvs> function_scope(
"cagra::detail::build_graph(%zu, %zu)", intermediate_degree, graph_degree);
check_graph_degree<T, IdxT>(intermediate_degree, graph_degree, n_rows);

auto const dataset_extents =
raft::matrix_extent<int64_t>(static_cast<int64_t>(n_rows), static_cast<int64_t>(dim));
auto knn_build_params = resolve_cagra_default_knn_graph_build_params<IdxT>(
res, params, dataset_extents, intermediate_degree);
validate_cagra_knn_graph_build_constraints<T>(params, knn_build_params);

if (std::holds_alternative<cagra::graph_build_params::iterative_search_params>(
knn_build_params)) {
auto device_graph = [&]() {
if constexpr (cuvs::neighbors::is_host_dataset_view_v<DatasetViewT>) {
auto padded = cuvs::neighbors::make_device_padded_dataset(res, dataset.view());
auto graph = iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, params, padded->as_dataset_view());
raft::resource::sync_stream(res);
return graph;
} else {
return iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, params, dataset);
}
}();
auto host_graph = raft::make_host_matrix<IdxT, int64_t>(n_rows, graph_degree);
raft::copy(host_graph.data_handle(),
device_graph.data_handle(),
host_graph.size(),
raft::resource::get_cuda_stream(res));
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Allocate and copy the iterative graph with the degree that iterative_build_graph actually produced.

build_graph changes intermediate_degree and graph_degree locally through check_graph_degree. It then passes the unchanged params to iterative_build_graph. That function reads params.graph_degree and params.intermediate_graph_degree directly, so its output has params.graph_degree columns (Line 850, Line 706).

If check_graph_degree reduces graph_degree, host_graph gets fewer columns than device_graph. Two inputs cause this: graph_degree > intermediate_graph_degree, or intermediate_graph_degree >= n_rows. The flat copy of host_graph.size() elements then reads the wrong row stride. The result is a silently corrupted graph: rows mix neighbors from adjacent nodes, and the tail rows are missing. FlowANN build_dense_integrated uses this graph directly for grouping, ranking, and tiering.

build_from_device_matrix does not have this problem, because it moves the device graph into the index unchanged. The FlowANN iterative test uses graph_degree=8 and intermediate=16, so no reduction happens and the test does not catch this bug.

Pass the adjusted degrees to the iterative builder. Also derive the host shape from the device graph.

🐛 Proposed fix 
--- "a/cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh"
+++ "b/cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh"
@@ -1078,19 +1078,24 @@
     res, params, dataset_extents, intermediate_degree);
   validate_cagra_knn_graph_build_constraints<T>(params, knn_build_params);
 
   if (std::holds_alternative<cagra::graph_build_params::iterative_search_params>(
         knn_build_params)) {
+    auto adjusted_params                      = params;
+    adjusted_params.intermediate_graph_degree = intermediate_degree;
+    adjusted_params.graph_degree              = graph_degree;
     auto device_graph = [&]() {
       if constexpr (cuvs::neighbors::is_host_dataset_view_v<DatasetViewT>) {
         auto padded = cuvs::neighbors::make_device_padded_dataset(res, dataset.view());
-        auto graph  = iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, params, padded->as_dataset_view());
+        auto graph =
+          iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, adjusted_params, padded->as_dataset_view());
         raft::resource::sync_stream(res);
         return graph;
       } else {
-        return iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, params, dataset);
+        return iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, adjusted_params, dataset);
       }
     }();
-    auto host_graph = raft::make_host_matrix<IdxT, int64_t>(n_rows, graph_degree);
+    auto host_graph =
+      raft::make_host_matrix<IdxT, int64_t>(device_graph.extent(0), device_graph.extent(1));
     raft::copy(host_graph.data_handle(),
                device_graph.data_handle(),
                host_graph.size(),
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auto device_graph = [&]() {
if constexpr (cuvs::neighbors::is_host_dataset_view_v<DatasetViewT>) {
auto padded = cuvs::neighbors::make_device_padded_dataset(res, dataset.view());
auto graph = iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, params, padded->as_dataset_view());
raft::resource::sync_stream(res);
return graph;
} else {
return iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, params, dataset);
}
}();
auto host_graph = raft::make_host_matrix<IdxT, int64_t>(n_rows, graph_degree);
raft::copy(host_graph.data_handle(),
device_graph.data_handle(),
host_graph.size(),
raft::resource::get_cuda_stream(res));
auto adjusted_params = params;
adjusted_params.intermediate_graph_degree = intermediate_degree;
adjusted_params.graph_degree = graph_degree;
auto device_graph = [&]() {
if constexpr (cuvs::neighbors::is_host_dataset_view_v<DatasetViewT>) {
auto padded = cuvs::neighbors::make_device_padded_dataset(res, dataset.view());
auto graph =
iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, adjusted_params, padded->as_dataset_view());
raft::resource::sync_stream(res);
return graph;
} else {
return iterative_build_graph<T, IdxT>(res, adjusted_params, dataset);
}
}();
auto host_graph =
raft::make_host_matrix<IdxT, int64_t>(device_graph.extent(0), device_graph.extent(1));
raft::copy(host_graph.data_handle(),
device_graph.data_handle(),
host_graph.size(),
raft::resource::get_cuda_stream(res));
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1083 - 1097:
Update the iterative_build_graph calls in the iterative-search branch to use
parameters with the locally adjusted intermediate_degree and graph_degree, so
the produced graph matches the validated degrees. In build_graph, derive
host_graph’s row and column dimensions from device_graph before copying to
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raft::resource::sync_stream(res);
return host_graph;
}
return build_cagra_host_graph_from_knn_params<T, IdxT>(res,
params,
knn_build_params,
static_cast<int64_t>(n_rows),
intermediate_degree,
graph_degree,
dataset.view());
}

/**
* Build from a host row-major matrix without uploading the full dataset early when IVF-PQ graph
* construction can consume host batches directly. Iterative CAGRA search needs the rows on device
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