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[FlowANN step 7/12] Add VPQ vector compression to tiered construction and search - #2983
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 7 of twelve is zhr/flowann-v3-07-vpq, with zhr/flowann-v3-06-dense-build 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 6 files, 509 additions and 22 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
Add VPQ-F16 dataset views and compressed single-CTA and multi-CTA search instantiations.
Add compressed conversion and construction overloads with owning compressed bundles.
Extend build and search tests for compression, metrics, grouped construction and dataset lifetimes.
Implementation in cuVS
The compressed path extends the dense implementation after graph grouping and edge ranking are available. Ranking and reordering use the appropriate input data before the compressed representation is assembled. The resulting bundle owns the VPQ data consumed by traversal. Both search modes use the same tiered graph and row-request runtime as the dense path. The additions include the compressed specializations and their construction tests, allowing reviewers to examine VPQ separately from dense graph construction.
Build compressed storage from full-precision vectors
The new host-input overload accepts VPQ parameters and returns an owning VPQ-F16 bundle. Graph construction, edge ranking and grouping use the appropriate full-precision inputs before the final compressed representation is assembled. Graph and dataset reordering retain the same row relationship and source-ID mapping as the dense builder. The compressed output therefore changes vector storage without changing the meaning of the graph's node IDs.
Own the quantized data used by both search modes
vpq_f16_index_bundle keeps the VPQ dataset alive for the index view that references it. The search launcher adds the compressed dataset descriptors and specializations needed by single-CTA and multi-CTA traversal. Both modes continue to use the packed tiered graph and the same host-row request protocol. Conversion overloads cover existing compressed CAGRA indexes, including an ownership-transfer path that releases the complete CAGRA graph before allocating the tiered graph to reduce peak device use.
Validate compressed construction independently
The added integrated-host-build tests construct searchable VPQ indexes and exercise grouping and reordering. They run alongside the dense construction and queue suites, so the compressed additions are checked with the already available builder and both search modes. The internal bundle owns the compressed dataset after the input is released. Public CAGRA ownership and persistence remain in step 8, where dense and VPQ lifecycles can be reviewed together.
Behavior after this PR
The internal experimental interface supports dense and VPQ build-then-search workflows. Public CAGRA ownership, serialization and language bindings remain in later PRs. Existing dense behavior is covered alongside the compressed additions.
Review focus
Check compressed dataset ownership, metric handling, graph/vector row agreement and generated kernel coverage for both traversal modes.
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, b6a1624b67113a3af00df227dad89a9dd1d68348. 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
49 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 50 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.
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 7 of twelve is zhr/flowann-v3-07-vpq, with zhr/flowann-v3-06-dense-build 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 6 files, 509 additions and 22 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
Add VPQ-F16 dataset views and compressed single-CTA and multi-CTA search instantiations.
Add compressed conversion and construction overloads with owning compressed bundles.
Extend build and search tests for compression, metrics, grouped construction and dataset lifetimes.
Implementation in cuVS
The compressed path extends the dense implementation after graph grouping and edge ranking are available. Ranking and reordering use the appropriate input data before the compressed representation is assembled. The resulting bundle owns the VPQ data consumed by traversal. Both search modes use the same tiered graph and row-request runtime as the dense path. The additions include the compressed specializations and their construction tests, allowing reviewers to examine VPQ separately from dense graph construction.
Build compressed storage from full-precision vectors
The new host-input overload accepts VPQ parameters and returns an owning VPQ-F16 bundle. Graph construction, edge ranking and grouping use the appropriate full-precision inputs before the final compressed representation is assembled. Graph and dataset reordering retain the same row relationship and source-ID mapping as the dense builder. The compressed output therefore changes vector storage without changing the meaning of the graph's node IDs.
Own the quantized data used by both search modes
vpq_f16_index_bundle keeps the VPQ dataset alive for the index view that references it. The search launcher adds the compressed dataset descriptors and specializations needed by single-CTA and multi-CTA traversal. Both modes continue to use the packed tiered graph and the same host-row request protocol. Conversion overloads cover existing compressed CAGRA indexes, including an ownership-transfer path that releases the complete CAGRA graph before allocating the tiered graph to reduce peak device use.
Validate compressed construction independently
The added integrated-host-build tests construct searchable VPQ indexes and exercise grouping and reordering. They run alongside the dense construction and queue suites, so the compressed additions are checked with the already available builder and both search modes. The internal bundle owns the compressed dataset after the input is released. Public CAGRA ownership and persistence remain in step 8, where dense and VPQ lifecycles can be reviewed together.
Behavior after this PR
The internal experimental interface supports dense and VPQ build-then-search workflows. Public CAGRA ownership, serialization and language bindings remain in later PRs. Existing dense behavior is covered alongside the compressed additions.
Review focus
Check compressed dataset ownership, metric handling, graph/vector row agreement and generated kernel coverage for both traversal modes.
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, b6a1624b67113a3af00df227dad89a9dd1d68348. 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
49 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 50 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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New Features
Added experimental FlowANN graph building and approximate-neighbor search, including options to build from datasets or existing CAGRA indexes.
Added graph grouping and tiered storage for searching across device- and host-resident graph data.
Added search support for float, half, and 8-bit integer data, multiple filtering options, and configurable search modes.
Added controls for managing search pollers and sessions, with optional GDRCopy support.
Bug Fixes
Improved iterative graph building to ensure the initial graph has enough rows for its first iteration.
Improved validation and handling of graph updates and invalid mapped neighbor IDs.
Documentation
Added guidance on poller management and optional GDRCopy setup.
FlowANN adds experimental C++ APIs for tiered graph indexes, graph construction, grouping, and search. The change adds host-serviced cross-graph queues, single-CTA and multi-CTA CUDA search paths, CMake options and dependencies, and tests. CAGRA search cores now accept graph-provider objects.
Changes: FlowANN functionality
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Index and graph metadata cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/flowann.hpp, cpp/src/neighbors/flowann.cu, cpp/tests/neighbors/ann_cagra/flowann_storage.cu
The index API stores graph and dataset metadata, supports graph and mapping updates, and manages seed lookups and cached rows. Search dispatch handles supported filters, and padded-dataset indexes can compute dataset norms. Tests cover graph ownership, updates, and norms.
Graph layout, grouping, and construction cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/build.hpp, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/grouping.hpp, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/flowann_build.hpp, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh, cpp/tests/neighbors/ann_cagra/flowann_build.cu
New helpers plan packed layouts and grouping, repair group capacities, and declare integrated builds and CAGRA conversions. The CAGRA builder adjusts graph degrees for dataset size. Tests cover layouts, grouping, builders, and searches over built graphs.
Cross-graph queue and context cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/queue.cuh, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/graph_state.cuh, cpp/src/neighbors/flowann_queue.cpp, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/flowann.hpp, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/README.md, cpp/tests/neighbors/ann_cagra/flowann_queue.cu
The device queue supports reservations, cross-graph requests, result retrieval, and reclamation. The host context manages pollers, sessions, search leases, pause state, transfers, and statistics. Tests cover queue operations and context lifecycle.
The previously reported duplicate-neighbor path is addressed at the current head. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.
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The description matches the changeset. It describes the FlowANN VPQ step, its compressed construction and search scope, the affected build and search paths, and the test validation. It is detailed and on-topic, so it passes this lenient check.
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Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_jit.cuh:
- Around line 506-520: In the candidate-writing loop that uses
state->total_children, invalidate every unused candidate slot through
candidate_capacity(search_width) on the non-compacted path, setting its index
and distance to their invalid sentinels before radix top-k runs. Add a
single-CTA test that selects the radix path and verifies each output row
contains unique neighbors.
- Around line 361-371: Check `state->pending` capacity for all `command_count`
entries before reserving or submitting commands; if there is insufficient space,
treat the expansion as unsuccessful or drain pending entries first. Ensure no
commands are submitted unless their reservations can also be recorded without
overwriting outstanding pending rows.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta.cuh:
- Around line 263-272: Update context_run_guard to retain the CUDA stream and
synchronize it before releasing the search lease during cleanup; construct the
guard with the stream in both search_single_cta and search_multi_cta so
outstanding work completes before pollers are paused.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/flowann_queue.cpp:
- Around line 573-576: In search_context::impl, the long-lived std::jthread
pollers in pollers_ conflict with the project’s host-threading rule. Either
document the approved FlowANN exception and its rationale in the FlowANN README,
or replace these pollers with a threading mechanism allowed by the project.
- Around line 338-344: Round layout_.total_size up to the 64 KiB GPU page once,
then use that rounded size for both storage_ allocation and the GDRCopy pin/map
call. Retain the rounded size in the queue so both operations use the same
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Single-CTA radix top-k can read stale candidates and return duplicate neighbors.
tiered_graph_provider::expand writes only the slots [0, total_children) of the candidate region. total_children changes on each iteration and is often smaller than candidate_capacity(search_width). The bitonic path is safe because it receives computed_children_this_iteration.
The radix path in the CAGRA search_core is different. It is selected when num_itopk_candidates > 256, for example search_width=8 with graph_degree=32. That path always sorts result_buffer_size elements. The slots past total_children therefore keep child IDs and distances from earlier iterations, and those entries compete again. A node already in the internal top-k can be inserted a second time. The output then contains duplicate neighbors, and the result quality drops.
The CAGRA device_graph_provider always fills the whole candidate region, so it does not have this problem. Fix it in the provider: in the non-compacted path, invalidate the unused tail of the candidate region.
Proposed fix
store_child(child, i);
}
+ if (result_position == nullptr) {+ for (std::uint32_t i = state->total_children + threadIdx.x;+ i < candidate_capacity(search_width);+ i += blockDim.x) {+ result_indices[i] = invalid_index;+ result_distances[i] = raft::upper_bound<DistanceT>();+ }+ }
__syncthreads();
The distance loop writes only i < total_children, so these sentinel values persist until top-k runs.
Add a single-CTA test with search_width * (search_width + 2) * graph_degree large enough to select radix top-k. The test should check that each output row has 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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around lines 506 - 520:
In the candidate-writing loop that uses state->total_children, invalidate every
unused candidate slot through candidate_capacity(search_width) on the
non-compacted path, setting its index and distance to their invalid sentinels
before radix top-k runs. Add a single-CTA test that selects the radix path and
verifies each output row contains unique neighbors.
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Document or remove the FlowANN threading exception.
search_context::impl starts one long-lived std::jthread poller for each queue. This conflicts with the project rule that only OpenMP is allowed for host threading. Document the approved exception and its rationale in the FlowANN README, or replace these pollers with an allowed threading mechanism.
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Review comment at @cpp/src/neighbors/flowann_queue.cpp around lines 573 - 576:
In search_context::impl, the long-lived std::jthread pollers in pollers_
conflict with the project’s host-threading rule. Either document the approved
FlowANN exception and its rationale in the FlowANN README, or replace these
pollers with a threading mechanism allowed by the project.
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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 7 of twelve is
zhr/flowann-v3-07-vpq, withzhr/flowann-v3-06-dense-buildas 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 6 files, 509 additions and 22 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
The compressed path extends the dense implementation after graph grouping and edge ranking are available. Ranking and reordering use the appropriate input data before the compressed representation is assembled. The resulting bundle owns the VPQ data consumed by traversal. Both search modes use the same tiered graph and row-request runtime as the dense path. The additions include the compressed specializations and their construction tests, allowing reviewers to examine VPQ separately from dense graph construction.
Build compressed storage from full-precision vectors
The new host-input overload accepts VPQ parameters and returns an owning VPQ-F16 bundle. Graph construction, edge ranking and grouping use the appropriate full-precision inputs before the final compressed representation is assembled. Graph and dataset reordering retain the same row relationship and source-ID mapping as the dense builder. The compressed output therefore changes vector storage without changing the meaning of the graph's node IDs.
Own the quantized data used by both search modes
vpq_f16_index_bundlekeeps the VPQ dataset alive for the index view that references it. The search launcher adds the compressed dataset descriptors and specializations needed by single-CTA and multi-CTA traversal. Both modes continue to use the packed tiered graph and the same host-row request protocol. Conversion overloads cover existing compressed CAGRA indexes, including an ownership-transfer path that releases the complete CAGRA graph before allocating the tiered graph to reduce peak device use.Validate compressed construction independently
The added integrated-host-build tests construct searchable VPQ indexes and exercise grouping and reordering. They run alongside the dense construction and queue suites, so the compressed additions are checked with the already available builder and both search modes. The internal bundle owns the compressed dataset after the input is released. Public CAGRA ownership and persistence remain in step 8, where dense and VPQ lifecycles can be reviewed together.
Behavior after this PR
The internal experimental interface supports dense and VPQ build-then-search workflows. Public CAGRA ownership, serialization and language bindings remain in later PRs. Existing dense behavior is covered alongside the compressed additions.
Review focus
Check compressed dataset ownership, metric handling, graph/vector row agreement and generated kernel coverage for both traversal modes.
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,
b6a1624b67113a3af00df227dad89a9dd1d68348. 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 50 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.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 7 of twelve is
zhr/flowann-v3-07-vpq, withzhr/flowann-v3-06-dense-buildas 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 6 files, 509 additions and 22 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
The compressed path extends the dense implementation after graph grouping and edge ranking are available. Ranking and reordering use the appropriate input data before the compressed representation is assembled. The resulting bundle owns the VPQ data consumed by traversal. Both search modes use the same tiered graph and row-request runtime as the dense path. The additions include the compressed specializations and their construction tests, allowing reviewers to examine VPQ separately from dense graph construction.
Build compressed storage from full-precision vectors
The new host-input overload accepts VPQ parameters and returns an owning VPQ-F16 bundle. Graph construction, edge ranking and grouping use the appropriate full-precision inputs before the final compressed representation is assembled. Graph and dataset reordering retain the same row relationship and source-ID mapping as the dense builder. The compressed output therefore changes vector storage without changing the meaning of the graph's node IDs.
Own the quantized data used by both search modes
vpq_f16_index_bundlekeeps the VPQ dataset alive for the index view that references it. The search launcher adds the compressed dataset descriptors and specializations needed by single-CTA and multi-CTA traversal. Both modes continue to use the packed tiered graph and the same host-row request protocol. Conversion overloads cover existing compressed CAGRA indexes, including an ownership-transfer path that releases the complete CAGRA graph before allocating the tiered graph to reduce peak device use.Validate compressed construction independently
The added integrated-host-build tests construct searchable VPQ indexes and exercise grouping and reordering. They run alongside the dense construction and queue suites, so the compressed additions are checked with the already available builder and both search modes. The internal bundle owns the compressed dataset after the input is released. Public CAGRA ownership and persistence remain in step 8, where dense and VPQ lifecycles can be reviewed together.
Behavior after this PR
The internal experimental interface supports dense and VPQ build-then-search workflows. Public CAGRA ownership, serialization and language bindings remain in later PRs. Existing dense behavior is covered alongside the compressed additions.
Review focus
Check compressed dataset ownership, metric handling, graph/vector row agreement and generated kernel coverage for both traversal modes.
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,
b6a1624b67113a3af00df227dad89a9dd1d68348. 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 50 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