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Filtered search: skip the filter for neighbors the buffer drops anyway - #459

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Built on top of #442 (filter in ValidBuilder); only the last commit is new: c4d7396...1664a67

Idea

With a filter, ValidBuilder looks up the external id and calls the filter for every neighbor the search finds. If the search buffer would drop that neighbor anyway (it is far away and the buffer is full), the lookup and filter call are wasted. This asks the buffer first and returns such neighbors as invalid without calling the filter.

Changes

  • include/svs/index/vamana/dynamic_index.h only: ValidBuilder::skip_if_dropped_by, and the search closure passes the buffer to it.
  • Results are unchanged.

Tests

No new test; covered by the existing [filtered] test in tests/svs/index/vamana/dynamic_index.cpp (and [core][search_buffer]), both passing.

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Reuse the MutableBuffer valid/invalid mechanism: a FilteredValidBuilder marks an
entry invalid if it is deleted or the predicate rejects its external id. New
MutableVamanaIndex::search overload taking a predicate, padding rows with
id -1 / +inf and returning per-query found counts. Supplement path checks the
predicate before computing the distance. Orchestrator virtual appended last.
Replace the separate filtered search overload with two optional trailing
arguments on MutableVamanaIndex::search (an id predicate and a per-query
result count). Without a predicate the existing code path runs unchanged.
check_and_supplement_search_buffer gets an optional predicate that is
checked before the distance is computed. The filter predicate type is now
a type-erased std::function, so FilteredValidBuilder is no longer a
template. The orchestrator keeps one appended virtual that forwards to the
index search.
The optional filter on MutableVamanaIndex::search now only chooses which
builder the existing greedy search closure uses; both cases call the same
per_thread_batch_search. FilteredValidBuilder derives from ValidBuilder.
The buffer top-up in single_search applies the filter when the search
closure carries one. The per-query result count out-parameter is removed
(callers count non-padding ids).

per_thread_batch_search now pads result rows with fewer than k entries
(id size_t(-1), distance +inf) instead of reading past the end of the
search buffer, and the post-search id translation skips the padding.
Give ValidBuilder an optional predicate and pass it down through
internal_search_builder, greedy_search_closure and search() as optional
arguments, instead of a separate builder and search path. Filtered-only
checks: the supplement fallback skips failing ids, copy-out pads short rows
with id -1 and the worst score, translation skips padded ids.
The orchestrator reports filtered search as unsupported for indexes whose
search has no filter argument (the concurrent index), instead of failing to
compile. In the filtered test, drop the unfiltered-padding section (padding is
filtered-only) and add an inner-product case checking padding uses -inf.
ValidBuilder can be given the search buffer. With a filter, it first
asks the buffer whether the entry would be dropped anyway (can_skip)
and, if so, returns it as invalid without looking up the external id or
calling the filter. Results are unchanged.
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Closing: experiment concluded; the work continues in #456.

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