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Beyond Overlap: Hierarchical Graph Abstraction for Out-of-Core Vector Search
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At billion scale, approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) often becomes an out-of-core problem: the full vector collection and index structures exceed memory capacity, making query performance dominated by SSD accesses and DRAM-SSD data movement. Existing systems struggle to strike a balance between accuracy and efficiency: physical-overlap methods replicate vectors or index entries across partitions, enlarging the SSD-resident index and incurring extra I/O; quantization-based methods reduce memory usage, but their approximate distances are less reliable and often require costly raw-vector reranking from SSD to preserve recall. We present GANNS (Graph-Abstraction ANNS), a hierarchical out-of-core ANNS engine that improves accuracy and I/O efficiency simultaneously. GANNS stores each cluster as a disjoint SSD partition with scale-aware indexes, while a memory-resident graph abstraction provides logical overlap before SSD access. During serving, GANNS uses query hotness and cluster priorities from the graph abstraction to prune low-value clusters and improve access locality. Across five datasets under strict memory constraints, GANNS delivers representative QPS improvements of 2.0--4.7x over state-of-the-art baselines, while preserving accuracy.
作者备注：Accepted to EuroSys 2027
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Beyond Overlap: Hierarchical Graph Abstraction for Out-of-Core Vector Search
At billion scale, approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) often becomes an out-of-core problem: the full vector collection and index structures exceed memory capacity, making query performance dominated by SSD accesses and DRAM-SSD data movement. Existing systems struggle to strike a balance between accuracy and efficiency: physical-overlap methods replicate vectors or index entries across partitions, enlarging the SSD-resident index and incurring extra I/O; quantization-based methods reduce memory usage, but their approximate distances are less reliable and often require costly raw-vector reranking from SSD to preserve recall. We present GANNS (Graph-Abstraction ANNS), a hierarchical out-of-core ANNS engine that improves accuracy and I/O efficiency simultaneously. GANNS stores each cluster as a disjoint SSD partition with scale-aware indexes, while a memory-resident graph abstraction provides logical overlap before SSD access. During serving, GANNS uses query hotness and cluster priorities from the graph abstraction to prune low-value clusters and improve access locality. Across five datasets under strict memory constraints, GANNS delivers representative QPS improvements of 2.0--4.7x over state-of-the-art baselines, while preserving accuracy.
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