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[QST] Is it possible to interact with lower-level functions in CuVS?

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Description

What is your question?
Hi!

I'm looking to only run select parts of vector search on GPUs, specifically PQ processes.

  1. Are these directly available through the API?
  2. What functions should I be looking at for dealing with PQ specifically? It looks like this file should be the one of interest, if I'm not mistaken?

Thanks!

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Research direction

Start with cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_build.cuh, the file linked in the question, and trace the surrounding public API entry points for product-quantization processing. Determine whether those lower-level functions are directly available and identify the functions relevant to PQ. Done means documenting the API availability and the appropriate functions for selectively running PQ processes on GPUs.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
api, search
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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