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🔍 Optimize Search Relevance Functions

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Description

🔍 Optimize Search Relevance Functions

Issue Description

Performance analysis found that search relevance scoring (BM25, TitleScorer, TerraphimGraph) has computational inefficiencies with repeated calculations, suboptimal data structures, and missing early termination strategies.

📍 Problem Areas
  • BM25 implementation with repeated term frequency calculations
  • No early termination for low-relevance documents
  • Inefficient scoring data structure access patterns
  • Missing SIMD optimizations for bulk scoring
🎯 Solution Approach

Optimize relevance functions with better algorithms, early termination, and SIMD operations where beneficial.

📋 Implementation Tasks
  • Optimize BM25 implementation with precomputed statistics
  • Add early termination strategies for scoring
  • Implement SIMD operations for bulk text processing
  • Optimize data structures for scoring operations
  • Add incremental scoring updates
📊 Expected Performance Improvements
  • Scoring speed: 2-3x faster relevance calculations
  • Memory usage: 15-25% reduction in scoring overhead
  • Query latency: 30-40% faster search response times
  • Throughput: Better handling of large document sets

Related to: #193 (Performance Optimization Epic)
Estimated Effort: 5-6 days
Priority: Medium (Search performance)

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Research direction

Start by locating the BM25, TitleScorer, and TerraphimGraph implementations and profiling their current scoring paths. Review the repeated term-frequency calculations, data-structure access, early termination, SIMD operations, and incremental updates; confirm completion against the stated latency, throughput, scoring-speed, and memory targets.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
performance, search
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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