[FEA] Binary IVF Flat Index by tarang-jain · Pull Request #1099 · NVIDIA/cuvs

tarang-jain · 2025-07-09T23:15:26Z

Depends on NVIDIA/raft#2770

Implementation of binary ivf flat index (bitwise hamming metric for the IVF Flat index)

Key Features

1. Binary Index Structure

Added binary_centers_ field to store cluster centers as packed uint8_t arrays for binary data
Index automatically detects BitwiseHamming metric and configures itself for binary operation
Only support uint8_t inputs with BitwiseHamming and add only single instantiations of newly added kernels

2. K-means Clustering for Binary Data

The clustering approach for binary data required special handling:

Expanded Space Clustering: Binary data (uint8_t) is expanded to signed representation (int8_t) where each bit becomes ±1
- 0 → -1, 1 → +1 transformation enables meaningful centroid computation
- Clustering performed using L2 distance in the expanded dimensional space
Centroid Quantization: After computing float centroids in expanded space, they are converted back to binary format:
- Centroids are stored as packed uint8_t arrays
- KMeans (coarse) prediction is done on these quantized centroids with the BitwiseHamming distance.

3. Distance Kernels

Coarse Search (Cluster Selection)

Implemented specialized bitwise_hamming_distance_op for query-to-centroid distances in order to compute PairwiseDistances

Fine-Grained Search (Within Clusters)

Extended the interleaved scan kernel (ivf_flat_interleaved_scan.cuh) with specialized templates for BitwiseHamming:

Veclen-based optimization: Different code paths based on vectorization width
- Veclen=16,8,4: Load data as uint32_t, use __popc(x ^ y) for 4-byte Hamming distance
- Veclen=1,2: Byte-wise XOR and population count
Efficient memory access patterns:
- Maintains interleaved data layout for coalesced memory access
- Specialized loadAndComputeDist templates for uint8_t that leverage vectorized loads

as of 10/17/2025
Binary size increase:
branch-25.12 (CUDA 12.9 + X86): 1232.414 MB
This PR (CUDA 12.9 + X86): 1251.051 MB

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cpp/src/cluster/detail/kmeans_balanced.cuh (1)
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Packed prediction with CosineExpanded leaves dataset_norm_ptr null.

validate_packed_binary_metric rejects CosineExpanded at the public entry points, so this path is guarded there. The detail-level predict has no such check. A direct caller that uses packed CosineExpanded skips the norm fill and skips compute_norm, so predict_core receives a null norm pointer. Restrict the norm fill to the L2 metrics, or call validate_packed_binary_metric(params) at the start of detail predict.
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Update detail-level predict to call validate_packed_binary_metric(params) before
allocating or using norm buffers, so packed CosineExpanded inputs are rejected
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- Line 426: Update both packed-binary notes in the C++ API documentation to
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cpp/include/cuvs/cluster/kmeans.hpp
cpp/include/cuvs/detail/jit_lto/common_fragments.hpp
cpp/include/cuvs/detail/jit_lto/ivf_flat/interleaved_scan_fragments.hpp
cpp/include/cuvs/detail/jit_lto/pairwise_matrix/pairwise_matrix_fragments.hpp
cpp/include/cuvs/neighbors/ivf_flat.hpp
cpp/src/cluster/detail/kmeans_balanced.cuh
cpp/src/cluster/kmeans_balanced.cuh
cpp/src/cluster/kmeans_balanced_build_clusters_impl.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/distance_ops/all_ops.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/distance_ops/bitwise_hamming.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/fused_distance_nn.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/fused_distance_nn/fused_bitwise_hamming_nn.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/fused_distance_nn/helper_structs.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/fused_distance_nn/simt_kernel.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/pairwise_matrix/dispatch-ext.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/pairwise_matrix/dispatch-inl.cuh
cpp/src/distance/detail/pairwise_matrix/dispatch_matrix.json
cpp/src/distance/detail/pairwise_matrix/jit_lto_kernels/compute_distance_epilog_matrix.json
cpp/src/distance/detail/pairwise_matrix/jit_lto_kernels/compute_distance_matrix.json
cpp/src/distance/detail/pairwise_matrix/jit_lto_kernels/pairwise_matrix_jit.cuh
cpp/src/distance/fused_distance_nn-inl.cuh
cpp/src/neighbors/detail/ann_utils.cuh
cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_flat/detail/jit_lto_kernels/metric_impl.cuh
cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_flat/ivf_flat_build.cuh
cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_flat/ivf_flat_interleaved_scan_jit.cuh
cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_flat/ivf_flat_search.cuh
cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_flat/ivf_flat_serialize.cuh
cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_flat_index.cpp
cpp/tests/cluster/kmeans_balanced.cu
cpp/tests/neighbors/ann_ivf_flat.cuh
cpp/tests/neighbors/ann_ivf_flat/test_uint8_t_int64_t.cu
cpp/tests/neighbors/ann_utils.cuh
fern/pages/cpp_api/cpp-api-cluster-kmeans.md
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+**Note:** When `params.is_packed_binary` is true, `X.extent(1)` counts packed bytes,<br />and centroids must have `8 * X.extent(1)` floating-point coordinates. Bits are<br />expanded least-significant bit first to \{-1, +1\}; the selected metric operates<br />on those expanded vectors. With the flag disabled, uint8_t values are numeric.


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Add the CosineExpanded restriction to the docs.

The header note says that CosineExpanded is not supported in packed binary mode. These doc notes leave out that sentence. As a result, docs users do not learn that the call throws for this metric. Add the sentence at both locations.

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1. Binary Index Structure

2. K-means Clustering for Binary Data

3. Distance Kernels

Coarse Search (Cluster Selection)

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