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Add a filtering_rate hint to brute_force::search_params - #2120
Adds float filtering_rate = -1.0 to brute_force::search_params. Before this, that struct was empty.
Plumbs brute_force::search_params through detail::search and brute_force_search_filtered. When filtering_rate is in [0.0, 1.0), the hint is used as the filter's selectivity, and the per-search bitset_view::count(res) popcount and host sync are skipped whenever the dense path is selected. The sparse (SDDMM) and gather paths need the exact count to size their buffers, so they still popcount, lazily, and only after the hint has picked one of them. The path decision is then re-made on the exact count.
A negative value (the default) keeps the current behaviour. Any other value, including NaN, throws raft::logic_error. Without that check, a value like 50.0 (a percentage instead of a fraction) would silently force the sparse path and the popcount, which is slower than leaving the hint unset.
cc @cjnolet: this is the cleanup for the popcount-per-search overhead from #1960.
Scope change (since the first revision)
Earlier revisions moved filtering_rate from cagra::search_params up into the base cuvs::neighbors::search_params. As CodeRabbit pointed out, that breaks source compatibility for CAGRA callers. C++ designated initializers cannot name an inherited member, so cagra::search_params{.filtering_rate = 0.5f} stops compiling, and there is no way to deprecate that. It also changed the layout of every algorithm's search_params. The hint is now declared only on brute_force::search_params. common.hpp and cagra.hpp are identical to main, and CAGRA is untouched.
Why
brute_force::search calls bitset_view::count(res) on every filtered search to derive selectivity. That is a GPU reduction kernel plus a host stream sync per call, and brute force had no way to avoid it. CAGRA already has filtering_rate for exactly this purpose. This gives brute force the same knob.
What changed
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cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/brute_force.hpp
Add filtering_rate to brute_force::search_params, with its contract documented
cpp/src/neighbors/brute_force.cu
Forward params through the four search() entry points
cpp/src/neighbors/detail/knn_brute_force.cuh
Add params to detail::search and brute_force_search_filtered; validate the hint; use it when it is valid; popcount lazily only when the selected path needs exact counts
cpp/tests/neighbors/brute_force_prefiltered.cu
ResultWithFilteringRateHint (bitmap and bitset, float and half, over the existing parameter matrix) and InvalidFilteringRateThrows (1.0, 1.5, 50.0, NaN)
fern/pages/neighbors/bruteforce.md
Document the new search parameter
Testing
On an RTX 5090 (sm_120) with the CUDA 13.3 env from conda/environments/all_cuda-133_arch-x86_64.yaml, I did a full C++ and C build with warnings as errors and ran the complete ctest suite on this head and on unmodified main at the merged base (66c904c). Both pass the same 58 of 60 suites. The two failures, cuvs_c_verify_install_headers and NEIGHBORS_ANN_IVF_PQ_TEST, fail the same way on main on this machine. All 225 *FilteringRateHint* and *InvalidFilteringRate* cases pass. A mutant build that accepts NaN fails all 45 InvalidFilteringRateThrows cases, so the new NaN check is effective.
Notes
ABI: brute_force::search_params grows from 1 byte (empty) to 4 bytes. No other struct changes.
No C, Python, Rust, Go or Java binding changes. The hint is C++ only, like CAGRA's.
Behaviour is identical when filtering_rate < 0 (the default): the same popcount and the same downstream logic.
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C++ brute-force neighbor search now accepts an optional filtering-rate hint to help select a search path. Valid hints can avoid counting filtered entries for the dense path; other paths still count them. Without a hint, the filter rate is computed automatically.
Bug Fixes
Filtering-rate values outside the supported range, including NaN, are rejected.
Documentation
Added guidance on accepted hint values and how they affect search behavior.
Brute-force search now accepts a filtering-rate hint for bitmap and bitset filters. The implementation validates the hint, uses it to estimate selectivity, and counts the filter when the selected search path requires exact counts. Tests and documentation cover the new parameter.
Changes: Brute-force filtering-rate hints
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Summary
Filtering-rate parameter and forwarding cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/brute_force.hpp, cpp/src/neighbors/brute_force.cu
search_params adds filtering_rate, defaulting to -1.0. Search overloads forward explicit parameters or pass a default-initialized parameter object.
Filtered-search hint handling cpp/src/neighbors/detail/knn_brute_force.cuh
Filtered search validates the hint and uses estimated or counted selectivity to choose a path. If a hinted estimate selects a non-dense path, the implementation obtains exact counts and selects the path again.
Hinted-search tests and documentation cpp/tests/neighbors/brute_force_prefiltered.cu, fern/pages/neighbors/bruteforce.md, fern/pages/cpp_api/cpp-api-neighbors-brute-force.md
Tests check hinted bitmap and bitset results and invalid rates. The documentation describes the parameter’s default, accepted values, and behavior.
Unfiltered searches can silently accept invalid filtering-rate values. This is a bounded issue, but validation should be made consistent with the documented API before merging.
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Add one high-sparsity hint case to cover the lazy-nnz CSR branch.
Current inputs top out at sparsity = 0.5, so RunWithFilteringRateHint() never exercises the new sparsity >= 0.9 path where exact nnz is computed lazily. Adding at least one > 0.9 case for bitmap and bitset would close this gap.
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In `@cpp/tests/neighbors/brute_force_prefiltered.cu` around lines 1084 - 1130, Add
at least one test entry to the selectk_inputs vector that triggers the lazy-nnz
CSR branch by using a sparsity >= 0.9; update the PrefilteredBruteForceInputs
initializer list (selectk_inputs) to include a case with high sparsity (e.g.
0.95) so RunWithFilteringRateHint() exercises the sparsity >= 0.9 path (add one
for bitmap/bitset coverage if your test matrix type selection is driven by the
distance/type field such as cuvs::distance::DistanceType::L2Expanded or
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In `@cpp/src/neighbors/detail/knn_brute_force.cuh`:
- Around line 623-627: The code currently enables hint mode for any non-negative
params.filtering_rate; change this to only enable hint mode when filtering_rate
is in [0.0, 1.0) by replacing the use_hint initialization with an explicit range
check (e.g., const bool use_hint = (params.filtering_rate >= 0.0f &&
params.filtering_rate < 1.0f)); additionally add an explicit validation branch
near that declaration (in the knn_brute_force.cuh scope where use_hint and
params.filtering_rate are used) that treats values >= 1.0f as invalid—either
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std::invalid_argument or return an error) or log a warning before proceeding—so
out-of-contract inputs do not silently alter path selection.
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- Around line 1084-1130: Add at least one test entry to the selectk_inputs
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the PrefilteredBruteForceInputs initializer list (selectk_inputs) to include a
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`filtering_rate` (a hint of the fraction of items filtered out by the
sample filter) previously lived on `cagra::search_params` only. CAGRA
used it to size `itopk_size` and, when the user left it at its default
of `-1.0`, called `bitset_view::count(res)` on every search — a GPU
popcount reduction + host sync that adds measurable latency.
`brute_force` filtered search also called `bitset_view::count(res)` on
every search to compute `sparsity` (used to choose between the dense
tiled GEMM path and the sparse CSR path), but had no user-facing knob
to skip the auto-detection.
This change:
- Moves `float filtering_rate = -1.0` from `cagra::search_params` to
the base `cuvs::neighbors::search_params`. `cagra::search_params`
inherits it; existing code that accesses `params.filtering_rate`
is unaffected.
- Plumbs `brute_force::search_params` through `detail::search` and
`brute_force_search_filtered`. When `params.filtering_rate >= 0`,
the hint is used directly as `sparsity` and the per-search popcount
is skipped on the dense path. The CSR path still needs an exact
non-zero count to size the matrix, so popcount runs lazily there.
- Algorithms that don't use the hint (`ivf_flat`, `ivf_pq`, `hnsw`)
ignore the new base field; their `search_params` inherit it but
nothing reads it.
Tests: extends `brute_force_prefiltered.cu` with
`ResultWithFilteringRateHint` cases for both bitmap and bitset
fixtures (float and half), reusing the existing parameter matrix and
asserting that results match the auto-detect path.
ClosesNVIDIA#1960.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The base search_params docstring already defines the contract: negative means
"auto-detect from the filter", and [0.0, 1.0) is trusted as a hint. The code
only checked `>= 0.0f`, so an out-of-contract value (e.g. a caller passing a
percentage like 50.0, or 1.5) was silently accepted as `sparsity`, forcing the
sparse CSR path plus its popcount -- slower than not setting the hint at all,
with no diagnostic.
Enforce the documented range with RAFT_EXPECTS. NaN is rejected too, since it
compares false against both bounds. Behavior for in-contract values, including
the negative default, is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@lowener this is number 2 in my series after 1) the dot product normalization constant optimization and before 3) the scatter gather and threshold fixing
PrefilteredBruteForceInputs::sparsity is the density of kept entries
(n_edges = m * n * sparsity), while search_params::filtering_rate is
1 - nnz / (n_queries * n_dataset). RunWithFilteringRateHint() passed the
former as the latter, so the hint was the complement of the true sparsity
and every hinted run took the dense path -- the lazy-nnz CSR branch was
never exercised.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pushed ce922ff, which fixes the filtering_rate hint in the prefiltered brute-force tests.
PrefilteredBruteForceInputs::sparsity is the density of kept entries (n_edges = m * n * sparsity, and cpu_convert_to_csr keeps set bits), while search_params::filtering_rate is 1 - nnz / (n_queries * n_dataset). RunWithFilteringRateHint() was passing the former as the latter, so the hint was the complement of the true sparsity. Since the inputs cap out at 0.5 density, every hinted run got a hint below the 0.9 threshold and took the dense path — the lazy-nnz CSR branch was never exercised. It passed anyway because the hint only steers path selection, not correctness.
With the sign fixed, the existing sparsity = 0.01 inputs now hint 0.99 and cover CSR + lazy nnz, while the 0.2/0.4/0.5 inputs still cover dense. That also addresses the CodeRabbit note about missing > 0.9 coverage without adding new inputs, and makes the hint agree with what auto-detection would compute — which is what the method's comment already claimed.
Also bumped the file's SPDX year to 2026; it was the only one of the five touched files still at 2025, so verify-copyright would have failed check-style.
@lowener this PR hasn't had a CI run yet — could I get an /ok to test ce922ff?
@lowener merged main in (8ade4ff) — the branch had fallen a long way behind, and it's now up to date with base. The merge was clean and the net diff is unchanged (5 files, +215/-23); I also compile-checked brute_force.cu against the merged tree locally with the project's warnings-as-errors flags.
This PR still hasn't had a CI run at all — could I get an /ok to test 8ade4ff, and a review when you have a moment? This is #2 in the series: #2128 (dot-product normalization) is merged, and #2321 (scatter-gather + dispatch thresholds) is approved and waiting on the same gate. Thanks!
…spatch thresholds (#2321)
## The problem, in one picture
`brute_force_search_filtered` chooses between a sparse (SDDMM) path and a dense post-filter path on one hardcoded test, `sparsity < 0.9f` — it runs SDDMM whenever **≤10% of the dataset passes the filter**.
But SDDMM's cost climbs with the number of passing rows, while the dense path's is flat (it always does the full GEMM, then masks). The two curves cross long before 10%. cuVS rides the sparse path right past the crossover:
The pink track is what cuVS actually runs. At 10M×128 it is **12.6× slower than necessary** at the moment just before it finally gives up on SDDMM.
The green curve is the path this PR adds.
## Two things are wrong, not one
**1. The threshold is in the wrong place.** The true SDDMM/dense crossover is ~3%, not 10%. By the time the current rule hands off, SDDMM is already 2.2–4.4× slower than simply going dense.
**2. The threshold is the wrong _kind_.** SDDMM competes against a fixed setup cost, not against work that scales with the dataset, so it stops paying off at an **absolute number of passing rows** — ~10k, roughly constant across the sweep. Expressed as a *fraction*, the correct handoff therefore **falls as the dataset grows**. At 10M rows it is ~0.1%, where the current rule waits until 10%: we keep SDDMM running up to 1,000,000 passing rows when it should hand off at ~10,000. **The error grows with the dataset.**
## Where each path actually wins
Blue is all that SDDMM should own. Everything left of the red line is what it owns today. The band between them — most of 0.1–10% — belongs to neither of the two paths cuVS currently has.
## The change
Three paths, chosen by `select_filtered_search_path()`:
- **`sddmm`** — unchanged; entered only below ~10k passing rows.
- **`gather`** (new) — enumerate the passing rows, compact them (and their precomputed norms) into a dense `[n_pass x dim]` matrix, run the ordinary **unfiltered** search over it, map indices back. Cost scales with `n_pass` instead of `n_dataset`.
- **`dense`** — unchanged; entered above the gather/dense crossover.
Built from existing primitives — `thrust::copy_if` over `bitset_view::test`, `raft::matrix::gather`, `brute_force_knn_impl`, `thrust::gather`. No new kernels.
The gather path applies to **bitset** filters only, which pass the same rows for every query. A **bitmap** passes a different set per query, so there is no single set of rows to compact; bitmaps keep a two-way dispatch, but with the corrected ~3% threshold instead of the flat 10%.
## What it costs today
Penalty against an oracle that always picks the fastest of the three paths:
| dispatch rule | mean | p90 | worst |
|---|---|---|---|
| `sparsity < 0.9` (today) | 1.65× | 5.29× | **12.56×** |
| this PR | **1.01×** | 1.00× | 1.49× |
## Tests
`NEIGHBORS_TEST --gtest_filter='*Prefiltered*'`: **180/180 pass.**
Six params were added to `selectk_inputs` at `n_dataset=300000, dim=128`, sized to land on each dispatch path. Since these tests check results against a CPU oracle and would pass just as well if the new path never ran, I instrumented the dispatch and confirmed each one is actually reached:
| test | selectivity | passing rows | path taken |
|---|---|---|---|
| bitset Result/0 | 0.10% | 300 | `SDDMM` |
| bitset Result/1–4 | 7.15% | 21,439 | **`GATHER`** |
| bitset Result/5 | 21.0% | 63,076 | `DENSE` |
| bitmap Result/0 | 0.10% | — | `SDDMM` |
| bitmap Result/1–5 | 7.0–20% | — | `DENSE` |
The four `GATHER` cases cover L2Expanded, InnerProduct, L2SqrtExpanded and CosineExpanded — the last exercising the gathered-norms path — and all agree with the CPU oracle. Bitmaps correctly carry no passing-row count and never gather.
## On the constants
They are empirical, and I want to be plain that they are not derived from first principles. I tried to build a cost model (dense GEMM + gather traffic + select_k) so the `dim` and `n_dataset` dependence would fall out of hardware properties; solving it against the measured crossovers produces a **negative** gather-traffic coefficient, i.e. the model is wrong. So these are fits and I have not dressed them up as anything else.
Instead I kept them **round and checked that they tolerate being wrong**. Perturbing any constant by 2× — roughly the spread I would expect across GPUs — leaves the mean penalty at 1.01–1.05× and the worst case at or below 2.7×. Still far better than the rule it replaces, which is 12.6× worst case *on the hardware it was presumably tuned for*. An earlier revision of this branch used 3-significant-figure power-law fits (`dim^0.4`, `dim^0.6`, …); they scored **identically** (1.01× mean), so the precision bought nothing and I removed it.
If maintainers would rather these be tunable via `search_params`, or auto-calibrated once per device, both are easy from here.
**Method:** fp16, L2Expanded, k=64, 100 queries, shared bitset; selectivity 0.1–60% × `n_dataset` ∈ {200K, 500K, 1M, 3M, 10M} × `dim` ∈ {128, 256, 512, 1024}; 100 reps on an idle RTX 5090 (sm_120), medians (cross-validated against an independent sweep to within 1.6–2.5%).
## Known gaps
1. **The thresholds are calibrated for `dim >= 128` and `n_dataset >= 200K`.** cuVS runs well below both — this repo's own prefiltered tests use `dim` from 1 to 2052 at `n_dataset=8192`. The fits are clamped to the measured range rather than extrapolated, but that corner is unmeasured. All 180 tests pass there; I simply cannot claim the *choice* is optimal.
2. **One pre-existing test config changes path**: `n_dataset=8192, dim=8, 10% density` moves SDDMM → dense. Both paths are correct (the test passes), but whether that flip is a fix or a regression is exactly what (1) has no data for.
3. **Bitmaps were never benchmarked.** The ~3% sparse/dense threshold is carried over from bitset measurements. The cost structure is the same shape, but a bitmap's CSR touches different columns per query, so SDDMM's locality is worse and the true crossover is probably *lower* than 3% — the error is in the safe direction, but it is inferred, not measured.
4. Single GPU architecture.
5. Touches the same function as #2120 (`filtering_rate` → base `search_params`). No conflict against `main` today, but the two will need reconciling if both land.
## Possible follow-up
A bitmap could get a gather path too, by compacting the **union** of all queries' passing rows and applying the per-query mask inside that smaller matrix. It degenerates to exactly this PR's path when the filter is a bitset. Whether it pays off depends on how much the queries' filters overlap, so it needs its own benchmark — out of scope here.
Authors:
- Max Buckley (https://github.com/maxwbuckley)
- Corey J. Nolet (https://github.com/cjnolet)
- Micka (https://github.com/lowener)
Approvers:
- Micka (https://github.com/lowener)
URL: #2321
…ispatch
NVIDIA#2321 replaced the single `sparsity < 0.9` dense/CSR split with
`select_filtered_search_path`, which chooses between sddmm, gather and dense
and needs two exact quantities: `nnz_h` to size the CSR, and `n_pass` (bitset
row count) to size the compacted dataset.
Resolution keeps this PR's rule that a supplied `filtering_rate` must not cost
a popcount, and adapts it to three paths instead of two:
- The hint now feeds `selectivity` (= 1 - filtering_rate) rather than the old
`sparsity`, and for a bitset also supplies an estimated `n_pass` so path
selection has a row count to work with.
- Only the dense path can run on the hint alone. If the chosen path is sddmm
or gather, popcount lazily and then re-run the decision with the exact
numbers, so a bad hint can never route into gather with an `n_pass` that
under-runs `k`. The dense path — the common case, and the one the hint was
added for — still skips the kernel and the host sync.
- Drops this PR's old lazy-popcount block inside the CSR branch, now
subsumed by the single lazy count at the dispatch site.
The hint tests inherit NVIDIA#2321's new `selectk_inputs` entries, so
`ResultWithFilteringRateHint` now covers all three paths rather than just
dense and CSR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Upstream moved cagra::search_params earlier in cagra.hpp (NVIDIA#2600). Resolved by
keeping main's layout and dropping the duplicate filtering_rate field from it,
since it is now inherited from cuvs::neighbors::search_params; upstream's UDF
fallback documentation is carried into the replacement comment.
The base-struct doc now says the popcount + sync applies to bitset_filter,
since CAGRA's bloom and roaring filters derive the rate without one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@lowener merged main in again (dd9f3c2) to clear the conflict. It was in cagra.hpp: #2600 moved cagra::search_params earlier in the file. I kept main's layout and dropped the duplicate filtering_rate field from it, since it's now inherited from the base cuvs::neighbors::search_params. Upstream's UDF-fallback wording is carried into the replacement comment. I also narrowed one line of the base-struct doc so it says only the bitset_filter path does a popcount + sync, since the bloom and roaring filters that landed in the meantime derive the rate without one. Otherwise the net diff is unchanged (5 files).
I checked that nothing upstream added since the last merge initializes cagra::search_params in a way the field move would break (no aggregate or designated initializers), and that every caller of the changed brute-force detail::search / brute_force_search_filtered signatures is updated.
Local verification (RTX 5090, sm_120, CUDA 13.3 env from conda/environments/all_cuda-133_arch-x86_64.yaml, warnings as errors):
Full C++/C build and the complete ctest suite on this branch and on unmodified main (efc7d30): the same 58/60 suites pass on each, including NEIGHBORS_TEST and all the CAGRA suites. The two that fail here (NEIGHBORS_ANN_IVF_PQ_TEST, cuvs_c_verify_install_headers) fail the same way on main on this machine.
All 405 prefiltered brute-force tests pass, including the ResultWithFilteringRateHint and InvalidFilteringRateThrows cases.
Because the base search_params change touches every algorithm's params, I also ran the IVF-PQ host-input cases one per process on both arms (they segfault on this WSL2 box on main too): same 431 pass / 90 crash / 1 fail on each. The only differences are recall-threshold flakes that trade places; repeating the affected cases 10 times gave the same failure rates on main and this branch.
Could you take a look and /ok to test the new head when you have a moment? Thanks!
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cpp/src/neighbors/brute_force.cu
cpp/src/neighbors/detail/knn_brute_force.cuh
cpp/tests/neighbors/brute_force_prefiltered.cu
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Hoisting the field into cuvs::neighbors::search_params broke source
compatibility for CAGRA callers: a designated initializer cannot name an
inherited member, so `cagra::search_params{.filtering_rate = x}` stopped
compiling. It also changed the layout of every algorithm's search_params.
Restore common.hpp and cagra.hpp to main exactly and declare the hint on
brute_force::search_params, which was empty. CAGRA's API is untouched; the
only struct that changes is the one gaining the knob. Semantics are
unchanged: negative auto-detects, [0, 1) is trusted, anything else throws.
The invalid-rate test now also covers NaN.
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Promote filtering_rate to base search_params; honor it in brute_force
Add a filtering_rate hint to brute_force::search_params
Oct 8, 2026
@lowener I narrowed this PR after CodeRabbit flagged a real source-compatibility break. Moving filtering_rate into the base search_params made cagra::search_params{.filtering_rate = x} stop compiling, because designated initializers can't name inherited members. The hint now lives only on brute_force::search_params (d74acd9), and CAGRA is identical to main. I also merged main in again (626c745) and documented the parameter (91c3c71). The description has the details.
I did a full build and ran the complete ctest suite on this head and on main at 66c904c. Both pass the same 58 of 60 suites; the two failures (cuvs_c_verify_install_headers, NEIGHBORS_ANN_IVF_PQ_TEST) fail the same way on main on this machine.
This PR has still never had a CI run. Could I get a /ok to test 91c3c71 when you have a moment? Thank you!
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Review comments at @cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/brute_force.hpp:
- Line 24: Add a class-level Doxygen comment immediately before the public
`search_params` declaration, documenting the type itself rather than only its
field. If the field is moved to the base type, add equivalent Doxygen
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- Line 592: Update the filtering-rate calculation in the test setup and the
bitset helper near `SetUp()` to derive the hint from the measured `nnz` rather
than `params.sparsity`, so duplicate edges are accounted for and the intended
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RMAT can draw the same edge more than once, so the filter may set fewer
bits than `params.sparsity` implies. Compute the filtering_rate hint from
the popcounted `nnz` the fixture already has, so the hinted search sees
the filter's true rate.
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Follow-up: CodeRabbit's two minor findings on the new head are addressed in 73d346f (a Doxygen @brief on the struct, and the test hint now derived from the measured nnz). @lowener, the /ok to test request now applies to 73d346f.
I merged main in (7910281) to clear Recently Updated; the merge was clean and the net diff is unchanged. The full ctest suite on this head matches unmodified main (973b7eb): 58 of 60 pass, and the same two fail on main here. @lowener, the /ok to test request now applies to 7910281.
@lowener friendly ping. I merged main in (7019590, it was 51 commits behind). The merge was clean and the net diff is unchanged. When you have a moment, could you /ok to test 7019590 and take another look at the narrowed version (the filtering_rate hint only on brute_force::search_params)? Thanks!
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- Around line 763-771: Validate params.filtering_rate at the start of the public
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Validate filtering_rate before the no-filter dispatch.
The public overload accepts search_params while its sample_filter defaults to none_sample_filter{}. For that path, dispatch calls brute_force_search without params, so 1.0 and NaN bypass validation and can return ordinary unfiltered results instead of being rejected as documented.
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{
+ const bool auto_filtering_rate = params.filtering_rate < 0.0f;+ const bool use_hint = params.filtering_rate >= 0.0f &&+ params.filtering_rate < 1.0f;+ RAFT_EXPECTS(auto_filtering_rate || use_hint,+ "search_params::filtering_rate must be negative (auto-detect) or in [0.0, 1.0), "+ "got %f",+ params.filtering_rate);+
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- 771:
Validate params.filtering_rate at the start of the public search_params
overload, before dispatch to brute_force_search for none_sample_filter. Reject
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Summary
float filtering_rate = -1.0tobrute_force::search_params. Before this, that struct was empty.brute_force::search_paramsthroughdetail::searchandbrute_force_search_filtered. Whenfiltering_rateis in[0.0, 1.0), the hint is used as the filter's selectivity, and the per-searchbitset_view::count(res)popcount and host sync are skipped whenever the dense path is selected. The sparse (SDDMM) and gather paths need the exact count to size their buffers, so they still popcount, lazily, and only after the hint has picked one of them. The path decision is then re-made on the exact count.raft::logic_error. Without that check, a value like50.0(a percentage instead of a fraction) would silently force the sparse path and the popcount, which is slower than leaving the hint unset.Closes #1960.
cc @cjnolet: this is the cleanup for the popcount-per-search overhead from #1960.
Scope change (since the first revision)
Earlier revisions moved
filtering_ratefromcagra::search_paramsup into the basecuvs::neighbors::search_params. As CodeRabbit pointed out, that breaks source compatibility for CAGRA callers. C++ designated initializers cannot name an inherited member, socagra::search_params{.filtering_rate = 0.5f}stops compiling, and there is no way to deprecate that. It also changed the layout of every algorithm'ssearch_params. The hint is now declared only onbrute_force::search_params.common.hppandcagra.hppare identical tomain, and CAGRA is untouched.Why
brute_force::searchcallsbitset_view::count(res)on every filtered search to derive selectivity. That is a GPU reduction kernel plus a host stream sync per call, and brute force had no way to avoid it. CAGRA already hasfiltering_ratefor exactly this purpose. This gives brute force the same knob.What changed
cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/brute_force.hppfiltering_ratetobrute_force::search_params, with its contract documentedcpp/src/neighbors/brute_force.cuparamsthrough the foursearch()entry pointscpp/src/neighbors/detail/knn_brute_force.cuhparamstodetail::searchandbrute_force_search_filtered; validate the hint; use it when it is valid; popcount lazily only when the selected path needs exact countscpp/tests/neighbors/brute_force_prefiltered.cuResultWithFilteringRateHint(bitmap and bitset, float and half, over the existing parameter matrix) andInvalidFilteringRateThrows(1.0,1.5,50.0, NaN)fern/pages/neighbors/bruteforce.mdTesting
On an RTX 5090 (sm_120) with the CUDA 13.3 env from
conda/environments/all_cuda-133_arch-x86_64.yaml, I did a full C++ and C build with warnings as errors and ran the completectestsuite on this head and on unmodifiedmainat the merged base (66c904c). Both pass the same 58 of 60 suites. The two failures,cuvs_c_verify_install_headersandNEIGHBORS_ANN_IVF_PQ_TEST, fail the same way onmainon this machine. All 225*FilteringRateHint*and*InvalidFilteringRate*cases pass. A mutant build that accepts NaN fails all 45InvalidFilteringRateThrowscases, so the new NaN check is effective.Notes
brute_force::search_paramsgrows from 1 byte (empty) to 4 bytes. No other struct changes.filtering_rate < 0(the default): the same popcount and the same downstream logic.🤖 Generated with Claude Code