[FEA] API to merge indexes
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Description
As we expand cuVS to different storage and database libraries, we are consistently seeing a need for efficient merges of one index (and potential one index type) into another.
FAISS has an API for efficiently merging indexes. We should have an API for this also and we should eventually back the GPU portion of the FAISS index merge API with RAFT/cuVS.
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First steps
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Research direction
The issue names no files or tests. Begin by reviewing FAISS's index-merge API and how cuVS index types are represented; define the supported index combinations and API boundary before implementation. Done means an agreed, efficient merge API for one index into another, with the eventual RAFT/cuVS GPU backing addressed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- backend, machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100