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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 12 of twelve is zhr/flowann-v3-12-rust, with zhr/flowann-v3-10-c-api 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, 612 additions and 6 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 safe Rust tiered parameter types, metadata and CAGRA construction and search methods.
Connect dataset ownership and persistence to the C index handle.
Add native lifecycle tests for dense and VPQ paths and Rust usage documentation.
Implementation in cuVS
The safe wrapper translates Rust parameters into the raw C declarations synchronized in step 10. The index wrapper retains the C handle and follows its destruction and error-handling conventions. Dataset helpers provide the supported input representations, while native tests exercise construction, search and a saved-index round trip. The wrapper uses the same C API as Python and has no dependency on the Python branch.
Represent tiered choices with Rust types
GraphStorage, TieredGraphParams and TieredSearchParams describe storage selection, layout planning and queue behavior. Their defaults match the C library. Rust-side validation rejects invalid grouping limits, non-finite balance or synchronization values and zero queue counts before invoking FFI. Field conversion uses the raw C declarations already synchronized in step 10. CompressionParams owns the native VPQ parameter handle and follows the existing destruction and error conventions.
Distinguish owned tiered data from borrowed input
Index::build_tiered() and Index::build_compressed() produce native indexes that own the vectors required for later searches. Their inputs can be dropped after construction, while the ordinary borrowed-index API retains its existing lifetime requirements. Graph-storage metadata identifies the representation. The deserialized wrapper accepts a tiered index without a separate dataset owner because the native index already owns that data, while ordinary graph-only deserialization still requires dataset attachment before search.
Verify native resource and persistence behavior
The dense and compressed native tests construct an index, release the input storage, search, serialize, drop the first index, reload and search again. Native errors propagate through the existing Rust error conversion, and the index handle remains managed by its existing owner. Workspace tests, explicitly enabled native tests, Clippy, formatting and doctests are recorded below. The branch depends directly on step 10 and can be applied before or after the Python branch.
Behavior after this PR
Rust callers can use the tiered CAGRA lifecycle through safe methods and typed parameters. The branch starts directly from step 10. Merging step 11 and step 12 in either order completes the language bindings without changing the shared native implementation.
Review focus
Check Rust/C parameter agreement, handle destruction, error propagation, dataset lifetimes and native tests that require the experimental C library.
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, dbcc1c97e7133e80603703272c01cda869506f99. 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
60 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 61 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.
All 59 Rust workspace native tests passed, including explicitly enabled ignored native tests. Clippy passed with -D warnings, and cargo fmt passed. Doctests passed 2 cases, with 2 documentation examples intentionally ignored.
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 native benchmark results were recorded at step 9 commit bbf098a0f25c177a38a51685efb65e35f4a27d7d. The table was not remeasured on this branch and does not measure the overhead of the added C, Python or Rust interfaces.
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 @c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h:
- Around line 211-236: Add Doxygen comments to every field in
cuvsCagraTieredGraphParams and cuvsCagraTieredSearchParams, matching the
corresponding tiered_graph_params and tiered_search_params field comments so
Fern generates descriptions that include valid ranges, zero-value behavior, and
defaults.
Review comments at @cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.hpp:
- Around line 1150-1165: The tiered VPQ build overloads are missing from the
generated C++ API reference because Fern does not expand
CUVS_DECLARE_TIERED_PQ_BUILD. Attach Doxygen comments directly to each build
declaration generated by this macro, or update the generator to expand it so all
four overloads are documented as public functions.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh:
- Around line 1081-1100: Update the iterative-search branch in build_graph to
pass adjusted parameters to both iterative_build_graph calls, setting
graph_degree and intermediate_graph_degree from the locally validated degrees.
Keep the host- and device-dataset paths consistent so the returned graph width
matches the host_graph allocation.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_multi_cta.cuh:
- Around line 380-389: Update the AUTO selection branch in the search algorithm
selection block to check whether the multi-CTA result buffer fits its limit;
select SINGLE_CTA when it does not, while preserving the existing batch-size and
itopk_size selection behavior when it fits.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_jit.cuh:
- Around line 353-372: In the non-seed-cache path, cap the number of requests
submitted and pushed to `state->pending` by its available capacity, so the
pending ring cannot be overrun. Preserve the existing reservation-failure
behavior for requests that cannot be submitted.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta.cuh:
- Around line 125-143: Update both JIT shared-memory planners, including the
planner computing base_smem_size and this->smem_size, to include
sizeof(graph_state<IndexT>) in occupancy and per-block total-limit checks. Keep
the value passed to safely_launch_kernel_with_smem_size as the dynamic
allocation only.
Review comments at @examples/cpp/src/flowann_benchmark.cu:
- Around line 549-555: Add a stream synchronization after
`cuvs::neighbors::cagra::search` and before recording `after_search` so
`search_ms` includes completion of the GPU work and does not shift that time
into `rerank_prep_ms`.
Review comments at @fern/pages/c_api/c-api-neighbors-cagra.md:
- Around line 827-842: Restore a separate cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphDegree
documentation section with its signature, parameter directions and descriptions,
and return type. In the cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphStorage section, mark index as in
and storage as out, and complete their descriptions.
- Around line 211-213: Update the CAGRA index and search parameter listings and
their fields tables to include the `graph_storage` and `tiered` members of
`cuvsCagraIndexParams` and the `tiered` member of `cuvsCagraSearchParams`. Link
each field to its corresponding type documentation and describe its settings
consistently with the existing `use_tiered_params` text.
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Summary
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New Features
Added experimental tiered graph storage for CAGRA, spanning GPU and host memory, with configurable build and search settings.
Added tiered index building from standard vectors and compressed VPQ-F16 datasets, plus storage-mode reporting.
Tiered indexes retain their dataset and can be searched after loading without a separate dataset.
Added a FlowANN search option to the benchmarking tool.
Documentation
Added guidance for configuring, building, searching, and serializing tiered indexes.
CAGRA adds experimental FlowANN-backed tiered graph storage, including build, search, serialization, and compressed-index paths. C and Rust APIs expose tiered settings and index ownership behavior. Build configuration, tests, documentation, and benchmark integrations are also added.
Changes: Tiered CAGRA and FlowANN
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Public configuration and API contracts c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h, cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.hpp, rust/cuvs-sys/src/bindings.rs, rust/cuvs/src/neighbors/cagra/*, fern/pages/*cagra*.md, rust/cuvs/README.md
C, C++, and Rust interfaces add tiered graph and search settings, storage queries, and compressed-build support. The documentation describes tiered index ownership and serialization behavior.
FlowANN adds packed graph layout planning, grouping and capacity repair, index bundles, and current and legacy serialization. Tests cover build layouts, storage updates, and serialization.
FlowANN adds queue and poller management, single-CTA and multi-CTA search, and graph-provider traversal. Tests cover queue lifecycle, search behavior, and device checks.
CAGRA tiered lifecycle and language wrappers c/src/neighbors/cagra.cpp, cpp/src/neighbors/cagra*, cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/*, cpp/tests/neighbors/ann_cagra/cagra_tiered.cu, rust/cuvs/src/neighbors/cagra/index.rs, c/tests/neighbors/ann_cagra_c.cu
CAGRA integrates tiered building, searching, storage reporting, and serialization. C and Rust wrappers support compressed builds and deserialization of indexes that own their dataset. Device-only operations reject tiered indexes where specified.
Build configuration and benchmark integrations cpp/CMakeLists.txt, cpp/tests/CMakeLists.txt, examples/cpp/*flowann*, python/cuvs_bench/cuvs_bench/backends/*flowann*, python/cuvs_bench/cuvs_bench/tests/test_flowann_backend.py
Build options configure FlowANN search, building, GDRCopy, tests, and native benchmarks. The native benchmarks and Python backend add FlowANN build and search measurement support.
The experimental tiered FlowANN search can corrupt its shared request queue under load. Small-dataset iterative builds can produce wrong neighbor rows. Default AUTO search can throw for larger graph degrees. The C API docs omit the new tiered fields. Fix the queue overflow and the graph-degree mismatch before merging; the feature is off by default.
Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1
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The title clearly identifies the pull request as step 12 of the FlowANN series and summarizes its main changes: Rust bindings and native lifecycle tests.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h:
- Around line 211-236: Add Doxygen comments to every field in
cuvsCagraTieredGraphParams and cuvsCagraTieredSearchParams, matching the
corresponding tiered_graph_params and tiered_search_params field comments so
Fern generates descriptions that include valid ranges, zero-value behavior, and
defaults.
Review comments at @cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.hpp:
- Around line 1150-1165: The tiered VPQ build overloads are missing from the
generated C++ API reference because Fern does not expand
CUVS_DECLARE_TIERED_PQ_BUILD. Attach Doxygen comments directly to each build
declaration generated by this macro, or update the generator to expand it so all
four overloads are documented as public functions.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh:
- Around line 1081-1100: Update the iterative-search branch in build_graph to
pass adjusted parameters to both iterative_build_graph calls, setting
graph_degree and intermediate_graph_degree from the locally validated degrees.
Keep the host- and device-dataset paths consistent so the returned graph width
matches the host_graph allocation.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_multi_cta.cuh:
- Around line 380-389: Update the AUTO selection branch in the search algorithm
selection block to check whether the multi-CTA result buffer fits its limit;
select SINGLE_CTA when it does not, while preserving the existing batch-size and
itopk_size selection behavior when it fits.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_jit.cuh:
- Around line 353-372: In the non-seed-cache path, cap the number of requests
submitted and pushed to `state->pending` by its available capacity, so the
pending ring cannot be overrun. Preserve the existing reservation-failure
behavior for requests that cannot be submitted.
Review comments at @cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta.cuh:
- Around line 125-143: Update both JIT shared-memory planners, including the
planner computing base_smem_size and this->smem_size, to include
sizeof(graph_state<IndexT>) in occupancy and per-block total-limit checks. Keep
the value passed to safely_launch_kernel_with_smem_size as the dynamic
allocation only.
Review comments at @examples/cpp/src/flowann_benchmark.cu:
- Around line 549-555: Add a stream synchronization after
`cuvs::neighbors::cagra::search` and before recording `after_search` so
`search_ms` includes completion of the GPU work and does not shift that time
into `rerank_prep_ms`.
Review comments at @fern/pages/c_api/c-api-neighbors-cagra.md:
- Around line 827-842: Restore a separate cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphDegree
documentation section with its signature, parameter directions and descriptions,
and return type. In the cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphStorage section, mark index as in
and storage as out, and complete their descriptions.
- Around line 211-213: Update the CAGRA index and search parameter listings and
their fields tables to include the `graph_storage` and `tiered` members of
`cuvsCagraIndexParams` and the `tiered` member of `cuvsCagraSearchParams`. Link
each field to its corresponding type documentation and describe its settings
consistently with the existing `use_tiered_params` text.
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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Document the tiered parameter fields for the generated API reference.
None of the fields in cuvsCagraTieredGraphParams or cuvsCagraTieredSearchParams has a comment. Fern builds its field tables from these comments, so every Description cell in fern/pages/c_api/c-api-neighbors-cagra.md (lines 165-177 and 200-206) is empty.
C callers cannot see the valid ranges, the auto-select meaning of zero, or the defaults. Examples:
node_per_cacheline accepts [1, 64] with grouping and [1, 32] without it.
n_groups is at most 65,536.
balance_tolerance must be in (0, 1).
num_queues must be positive.
Copy the field comments from tiered_graph_params and tiered_search_params in cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.hpp.
📝 Example for the first fields
struct cuvsCagraTieredGraphParams {
- size_t device_graph_budget_bytes;- uint16_t node_per_cacheline;+ /** Maximum packed resident graph bytes, excluding datasets and queues. Zero stores all edges on host. */+ size_t device_graph_budget_bytes;+ /** Consecutive nodes per packed row: [1, 64] with grouping, [1, 32] without grouping. */+ uint16_t node_per_cacheline;
As per path instructions: "Doxygen-style source comments for all public functions/classes, consumed by the Fern API generator".
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Review comment at @c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h around lines 211 - 236:
Add Doxygen comments to every field in cuvsCagraTieredGraphParams and
cuvsCagraTieredSearchParams, matching the corresponding tiered_graph_params and
tiered_search_params field comments so Fern generates descriptions that include
valid ranges, zero-value behavior, and defaults.
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- Fern native-header parser ---'
sed -n '90,180p' fern/scripts/generate_api_reference.py
sed -n '180,360p' fern/scripts/generate_api_reference.py
sed -n '360,560p' fern/scripts/generate_api_reference.py
printf'%s\n''--- Generated CAGRA API references ---'
rg -n -C6 'tiered|VPQ|host_standard_dataset_view|CUVS_DECLARE_TIERED_PQ_BUILD|owning tiered' fern/pages/cpp_api/cpp-api-neighbors-cagra.md fern/pages/neighbors/cagra.md 2>/dev/null ||true
Repository: NVIDIA/cuvs
Length of output: 38254
Script executed:
set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- Declaration parsing implementation ---'
rg -n 'def (read_declaration_after|parse_doxygen_entry|clean_doxygen_comment|is_public_cpp_member_context)' fern/scripts/generate_api_reference.py
sed -n '700,940p' fern/scripts/generate_api_reference.py
printf'%s\n''--- CAGRA generated API build section ---'
sed -n '760,1240p' fern/pages/cpp_api/cpp-api-neighbors-cagra.md
Repository: NVIDIA/cuvs
Length of output: 25496
Script executed:
sed -n '3194,3360p' fern/scripts/generate_api_reference.py
Repository: NVIDIA/cuvs
Length of output: 5655
Document the tiered VPQ overloads as public functions.
CUVS_ENABLE_FLOWANN_BUILD is already exported through the public cuvs_cpp_headers target, so installed consumers can see these declarations. However, Fern does not expand CUVS_DECLARE_TIERED_PQ_BUILD, and the generated C++ API reference omits all four tiered VPQ build overloads. Attach Doxygen comments to the actual declarations, or update the generator to expand this macro.
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Review comment at @cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.hpp around lines 1150 -
1165:
The tiered VPQ build overloads are missing from the generated C++ API reference
because Fern does not expand CUVS_DECLARE_TIERED_PQ_BUILD. Attach Doxygen
comments directly to each build declaration generated by this macro, or update
the generator to expand it so all four overloads are documented as public
functions.
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Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '1040,1115p' cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh
rg -n 'check_graph_degree|iterative_build_graph' cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/*.cuh
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sed -n '45,90p' cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh
sed -n '680,790p' cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh
sed -n '1160,1225p' cpp/src/neighbors/detail/cagra/cagra_build.cuh
Pass the adjusted degrees to iterative_build_graph.
check_graph_degree changes only the local degrees in build_graph. iterative_build_graph reads the unmodified values from params and returns a graph with the original graph_degree width. build_graph allocates the host graph with the reduced width, so the flat raft::copy shifts source row boundaries and can produce incorrect neighbors.
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));
raft::resource::sync_stream(res);
return host_graph;
}
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Update the iterative-search branch in build_graph to pass adjusted parameters to
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intermediate_graph_degree from the locally validated degrees. Keep the host- and
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Make AUTO choose an algorithm that the index can run.
multi_cta_plan rejects any graph whose result buffer exceeds 256 elements. The size check is 32 + 3 * graph_degree rounded up to a multiple of 32, so the limit is graph_degree ≤ 74. AUTO sends every small batch, fewer than 2 × SM-count queries, to MULTI_CTA.
Consider a tiered index with graph_degree 96 or 128 and the default AUTO. A low-latency search then throws "FlowANN multi-CTA result buffer cannot exceed 256 elements", even though SINGLE_CTA can serve it. Ordinary CAGRA AUTO accepts these degrees.
Fall back to SINGLE_CTA when the multi-CTA buffer does not fit.
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Update the AUTO selection branch in the search algorithm selection block to
check whether the multi-CTA result buffer fits its limit; select SINGLE_CTA when
it does not, while preserving the existing batch-size and itopk_size selection
behavior when it fits.
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Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '20,110p' cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_jit.cuh
sed -n '330,520p' cpp/src/neighbors/detail/flowann/search_single_cta_jit.cuh
Check pending capacity before pushing new requests.
The non-seed-cache path pushes up to command_count (≤ search_width) entries with no occupancy check. The only free-space check, available < search_width, runs later in the consume loop.
The pending ring holds at most 511 entries. A partial consume in the need_wait branch can leave the ring at 504 to 511 entries. The next push can then overflow:
head wraps onto tail. size() drops to zero, and empty() returns true.
The overwritten reservations never reach release_deferred. finalize drains only the visible entries.
reclaim_released_warp stops at the first unreleased sequence, so the shared queue stops reclaiming slots. After its 65536 slots are consumed, later reservations fail, and those searches skip cross-graph edges.
Limit the submitted requests to the free slots before the push. This follows the existing reservation-failure path.
🐛 Proposed fix
std::uint32_t command_count = 0;
for (std::uint32_t i = 0; i < search_width; ++i) {
if (!state->parent_valid[i]) { continue; }
commands[command_count++] = static_cast<std::uint32_t>(state->parent_ids[i]);
}
+ // Never overrun the CTA-local pending ring; unreleased overwritten slots would+ // permanently block reclamation of the shared host queue.+ command_count = std::min<std::uint32_t>(command_count, state->pending.available());
A complete fix also waits for and consumes front entries until available() >= search_width before the push. That fix requires candidate-buffer accounting.
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if (!state->use_seed_cache) {
std::uint32_t commands[max_search_width];
std::uint32_t command_count = 0;
for (std::uint32_t i = 0; i < search_width; ++i) {
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In the non-seed-cache path, cap the number of requests submitted and pushed to
`state->pending` by its available capacity, so the pending ring cannot be
overrun. Preserve the existing reservation-failure behavior for requests that
cannot be submitted.
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Include static shared memory in the shared-memory plan.
Both JIT kernels allocate __shared__ graph_state<IndexT> state, but both planners compute smem_size from dynamic workspace terms only. The block-size heuristic can therefore select a configuration without accounting for the full CTA shared-memory footprint. The combined static and dynamic allocation can also exceed the device's per-block shared-memory limit.
Account for sizeof(graph_state<IndexT>) in the occupancy and total-limit checks for both planners. Keep the value passed to safely_launch_kernel_with_smem_size as the dynamic allocation only.
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Update both JIT shared-memory planners, including the planner computing
base_smem_size and this->smem_size, to include sizeof(graph_state<IndexT>) in
occupancy and per-block total-limit checks. Keep the value passed to
safely_launch_kernel_with_smem_size as the dynamic allocation only.
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Synchronize the stream before you record after_search.
The timer reads after_search right after cuvs::neighbors::cagra::search returns. It does not wait for the stream first. If the search enqueues GPU work asynchronously, search_ms measures only the launch cost. The remaining GPU time then moves into rerank_prep_ms, because the raft::copy and sync_stream at lines 557-559 absorb it. total_ms stays correct, but the split between search and rerank-prep is wrong. The Python backend records both values in the round metadata.
The tiered path may already synchronize internally because the CPU-serviced queues must complete. In that case the extra sync costs almost nothing. Add the sync so the timing does not depend on that internal detail.
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cuvs::neighbors::cagra::search(resources,
params,
index,
raft::make_const_mdspan(query_device.view()),
candidates_device.view(),
candidate_distances_device.view());
autoconst after_search = clock_type::now();
cuvs::neighbors::cagra::search(resources,
params,
index,
raft::make_const_mdspan(query_device.view()),
candidates_device.view(),
candidate_distances_device.view());
raft::resource::sync_stream(resources);
autoconst after_search = clock_type::now();
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Add a stream synchronization after `cuvs::neighbors::cagra::search` and before
recording `after_search` so `search_ms` includes completion of the GPU work and
does not shift that time into `rerank_prep_ms`.
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Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '110,330p' fern/pages/c_api/c-api-neighbors-cagra.md
sed -n '640,700p' fern/pages/c_api/c-api-neighbors-cagra.md
sed -n '250,270p' c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h
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# Locate the search-params struct and any tiered members in the C header.
rg -n -F 'struct cuvsCagraSearchParams {' c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h ||test"$?" -eq 1
rg -n 'tiered|Tiered' c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h ||test"$?" -eq 1
# Print the complete search-params struct with surrounding lines.
rg -n -F -A 40 'struct cuvsCagraSearchParams {' c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h ||test"$?" -eq 1
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Length of output: 2726
Document the tiered fields in both CAGRA parameter listings.
The cuvsCagraIndexParams listing and fields table omit graph_storage and tiered, which the header adds at cagra.h:260-261. The cuvsCagraSearchParams listing omits the tiered member, which the header declares at cagra.h:530. The use_tiered_params description says "Enable the tiered settings below," but the page does not list those settings in this struct.
| `use_tiered_params` | `bool` | Enable the tiered settings below. Allocate this struct with cuvsCagraSearchParamsCreate(). |
+| `tiered` | [`struct cuvsCagraTieredSearchParams`](/api-reference/c-api-neighbors-cagra#cuvscagratieredsearchparams) | Tiered search settings; queue state is retained by the index. |
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Update the CAGRA index and search parameter listings and their fields tables to
include the `graph_storage` and `tiered` members of `cuvsCagraIndexParams` and
the `tiered` member of `cuvsCagraSearchParams`. Link each field to its
corresponding type documentation and describe its settings consistently with the
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- base-to-head diff for the documentation file ---'
git diff --unified=18 3dd62c143c78f3a019eecfee9fbae11cebe0d580 dbcc1c97e7133e80603703272c01cda869506f99 -- fern/pages/c_api/c-api-neighbors-cagra.md
printf'%s\n''--- current documentation references ---'
rg -n -C 8 -F -- 'cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphDegree' fern/pages/c_api/c-api-neighbors-cagra.md ||test"$?" -eq 1
rg -n -C 12 -F -- 'cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphStorage' fern/pages/c_api/c-api-neighbors-cagra.md
printf'%s\n''--- bound public declarations ---'
sed -n '590,630p' c/include/cuvs/neighbors/cagra.h
sed -n '1628,1665p' c/src/neighbors/cagra.cpp
Repository: NVIDIA/cuvs
Length of output: 22667
Restore the cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphDegree documentation.
The public function still exists, but this section replaces its reference entry. Add a separate cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphDegree section. Complete the cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphStorage parameter metadata; index is in and storage is out.
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+<a id="cuvscagraindexgetgraphdegree"></a>+### cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphDegree++Get graph degree of the CAGRA index++```c+cuvsError_t cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphDegree(cuvsCagraIndex_t index, int64_t* graph_degree);+```++**Parameters**++| Name | Direction | Type | Description |+| --- | --- | --- | --- |+| `index` | in | [`cuvsCagraIndex_t`](/api-reference/c-api-neighbors-cagra#cuvscagraindex) | CAGRA index |+| `graph_degree` | out | `int64_t*` | return graph degree |++**Returns**++[`cuvsError_t`](/api-reference/c-api-core-c-api#cuvserror-t)+
| `index` | | [`cuvsCagraIndex_t`](/api-reference/c-api-neighbors-cagra#cuvscagraindex) | |
-| `storage` | | [`enum cuvsCagraGraphStorage*`](/api-reference/c-api-neighbors-cagra#cuvscagragraphstorage) | |+| `index` | in | [`cuvsCagraIndex_t`](/api-reference/c-api-neighbors-cagra#cuvscagraindex) | CAGRA index |+| `storage` | out | [`enum cuvsCagraGraphStorage*`](/api-reference/c-api-neighbors-cagra#cuvscagragraphstorage) | return graph storage mode |
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Restore a separate cuvsCagraIndexGetGraphDegree documentation section with its
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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 12 of twelve is
zhr/flowann-v3-12-rust, withzhr/flowann-v3-10-c-apias 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, 612 additions and 6 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 safe wrapper translates Rust parameters into the raw C declarations synchronized in step 10. The index wrapper retains the C handle and follows its destruction and error-handling conventions. Dataset helpers provide the supported input representations, while native tests exercise construction, search and a saved-index round trip. The wrapper uses the same C API as Python and has no dependency on the Python branch.
Represent tiered choices with Rust types
GraphStorage,TieredGraphParamsandTieredSearchParamsdescribe storage selection, layout planning and queue behavior. Their defaults match the C library. Rust-side validation rejects invalid grouping limits, non-finite balance or synchronization values and zero queue counts before invoking FFI. Field conversion uses the raw C declarations already synchronized in step 10.CompressionParamsowns the native VPQ parameter handle and follows the existing destruction and error conventions.Distinguish owned tiered data from borrowed input
Index::build_tiered()andIndex::build_compressed()produce native indexes that own the vectors required for later searches. Their inputs can be dropped after construction, while the ordinary borrowed-index API retains its existing lifetime requirements. Graph-storage metadata identifies the representation. The deserialized wrapper accepts a tiered index without a separate dataset owner because the native index already owns that data, while ordinary graph-only deserialization still requires dataset attachment before search.Verify native resource and persistence behavior
The dense and compressed native tests construct an index, release the input storage, search, serialize, drop the first index, reload and search again. Native errors propagate through the existing Rust error conversion, and the index handle remains managed by its existing owner. Workspace tests, explicitly enabled native tests, Clippy, formatting and doctests are recorded below. The branch depends directly on step 10 and can be applied before or after the Python branch.
Behavior after this PR
Rust callers can use the tiered CAGRA lifecycle through safe methods and typed parameters. The branch starts directly from step 10. Merging step 11 and step 12 in either order completes the language bindings without changing the shared native implementation.
Review focus
Check Rust/C parameter agreement, handle destruction, error propagation, dataset lifetimes and native tests that require the experimental C library.
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,
dbcc1c97e7133e80603703272c01cda869506f99. 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 61 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.
All 59 Rust workspace native tests passed, including explicitly enabled ignored native tests. Clippy passed with -D warnings, and cargo fmt passed. Doctests passed 2 cases, with 2 documentation examples intentionally ignored.
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 native benchmark results were recorded at step 9 commit
bbf098a0f25c177a38a51685efb65e35f4a27d7d. The table was not remeasured on this branch and does not measure the overhead of the added C, Python or Rust interfaces.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