[FEA] Reduce duplicate distance computations in Vamana GreedySearch build
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Description
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The Vamana GPU build is dominated by GreedySearch on high-dimensional datasets. During each search, nodes reachable through more than one path are re-checked against the visited set and have their distances recomputed each time, which is redundant work that scales with graph degree.
Describe the solution you'd like
Reduce the per-search visited-set handling so each node's distance is computed at most once, lowering build latency for high-dimensional workloads without changing search results.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Keeping the current visited-list handling and accepting the redundant distance computations is the baseline; it is simple but leaves build time higher than necessary on high-dimensional data.
Additional context
Measured on NVIDIA L4 (graph_degree=64, visited_size=128): build time reduced 14-34% on sift/cohere/gist/openai with no change in recall@10.
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First steps
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Research direction
Start at the Vamana GPU build's GreedySearch entry point and inspect the current per-search visited-set handling and distance computation path. Run the existing build measurements on sift, cohere, gist, and openai, then verify reduced build time with unchanged recall@10.
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Assessment
- Domain
- performance, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100