[WIP] Add filtering support for IVF-PQ and BITMAP filtering for CAGRA #1478

jeremywgleeson · 2025-10-29T23:21:54Z

Summary

This PR adds filter support to the IVF-PQ C API (which previously had no filtering capability) and adds BITMAP filter support to the CAGRA and IVF-Flat C API (which only supported BITSET filters). Additionally, it adds strong filter support to the Rust crate, which was previously not exposed.

Changes

IVF-PQ C API - Add Filter Support
- Add cuvsFilter filter parameter to cuvsIvfPqSearch
- Implement BITMAP (per-query) and BITSET (global) filter support
- IVF-PQ previously had no filtering capability in the C API
IVF-Flat C API - Add BITMAP Filter Support
- Add BITMAP filter support to cuvsIvfFlatSearch
- IVF-Flat previously only supported BITSET filters, now supports both
- Matches full filtering functionality available in the C++ API
CAGRA C API - Add BITMAP Filter Support
- Add BITMAP filter support to cuvsCagraSearch
- CAGRA previously only supported BITSET filters, now supports both
- Matches full filtering functionality available in the C++ API
Comprehensive Test Coverage
- Add filtered search tests for IVF-PQ (ann_ivf_pq_c.cu)
- Add filtered search tests for IVF-Flat (ann_ivf_flat_c.cu)
- Add filtered search tests for CAGRA (ann_cagra_c.cu)
- Each test suite includes both BITSET and BITMAP filter validation
- Tests verify that filtered results respect the exclusion criteria
Rust Language Bindings - Complete Filter Support
- Add new filters.rs module with comprehensive filter utilities
- BITSET Helpers:
  - bitset_from_excluded_indices() - Create global filter from excluded indices
  - bitset_from_included_indices() - Create global filter from included indices
- BITMAP Helpers:
  - bitmap_from_excluded_indices() - Create per-query filters from excluded indices
  - bitmap_from_included_indices() - Create per-query filters from included indices
- All functions follow idiomatic Rust patterns with proper error handling
- Memory-safe wrappers around DLPack tensors for filter data
- Comprehensive documentation and examples for each function
Other Language Bindings
- Update Python bindings to accept optional filter parameter
- Update Go bindings to pass NO_FILTER by default

Backward Compatibility

C API - Breaking Changes:

⚠️ BREAKING: cuvsIvfPqSearch now requires an additional trailing cuvsFilter filter parameter
Existing C code calling IVF-PQ search must be updated to pass a filter parameter (use {.type = NO_FILTER, .addr = (uintptr_t)NULL} for no filtering)
Note: IVF-Flat and CAGRA already had the filter parameter, so no breaking changes for those

(Based on #664 , it seems that this type of change is not considered breaking?)

Rust API - Breaking Changes:

⚠️ BREAKING: Search function signatures updated to include filter parameter
Existing Rust code must be updated to pass a filter (use appropriate helper functions from new filters module or None)

Python API - Non-Breaking:

Filter parameter is optional with default value filter=None
Filter placed after resources parameter to maintain backward compatibility for positional arguments
Existing Python code continues to work unchanged

Go API - Non-Breaking:

Filter automatically initialized to NO_FILTER internally
Existing Go code continues to work unchanged

Testing

All new functionality is covered by unit tests that:

Create random datasets and queries
Apply filters to exclude even-indexed vectors (pattern: 0xAAAAAAAA)
Verify all returned neighbors are odd-indexed
Test both BITMAP and BITSET filter modes for each index type

Closes #1464

Add cuvsFilter parameter to IVF_PQ, IVF_Flat, CAGRA, and TieredIndex search functions. - IVF_PQ: Add BITMAP and BITSET filter support - IVF_Flat: Add BITMAP and BITSET filter support - CAGRA: Add BITMAP and BITSET filter support - TieredIndex: Add BITSET filter support (BITMAP not supported) 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

- C API: Add cuvsFilter parameter to IVF_PQ, IVF_Flat, CAGRA, TieredIndex search - Rust: Add Filter trait with NoFilter, BitmapFilter, BitsetFilter implementations - Python: Add filter parameter to search functions - Go: Add filter creation and passing to C API - Tests: Add comprehensive filter tests for all index types (ann_tiered_index_c.cu) - Update function signatures and documentation examples Based on upstream/main to avoid formatting changes

This commit adds comprehensive test coverage for bitmap and bitset filtering functionality across multiple index types: - IVF-PQ: Added BuildSearchBitsetFiltered and BuildSearchBitmapFiltered tests - IVF-Flat: Added BuildSearchBitsetFiltered and BuildSearchBitmapFiltered tests - CAGRA: Replaced BuildSearchFiltered with BuildSearchBitsetFiltered and added BuildSearchBitmapFiltered - Added TIERED_INDEX_C_TEST configuration to CMakeLists.txt All tests verify correct filter behavior by creating filters that remove even-indexed vectors and asserting all returned neighbors are odd-indexed. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

Move filter parameter to end of search() signature to match CAGRA and IVF-Flat, preventing breakage of existing code using positional args. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

Remove TieredIndex BITMAP/BITSET filter changes and tests as they are unrelated to the IVF-PQ, IVF-Flat, and CAGRA filter additions. Preserved in branch: feat/tiered-index-filters 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

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cjnolet · 2025-10-30T16:46:57Z

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cjnolet · 2025-10-30T16:47:35Z

Thanks so much for the contribution @jeremywgleeson! This is a few important features that we've had on our roadmap and we really appreciate your help here.

Remove test configuration for ann_tiered_index_c.cu which was deleted in the TieredIndex revert commit. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

cjnolet · 2025-10-30T17:08:56Z

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- Update copyright header to SPDX format - Apply cargo fmt to function signatures 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

Add #include <cuvs/neighbors/common.h> to provide cuvsFilter type definition required by cuvsIvfPqSearch function signature. Fixes compilation errors: - error: unknown type name 'cuvsFilter' - error: 'NO_FILTER' undeclared - error: 'cuvsFilter' has not been declared 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

benfred · 2025-10-30T18:11:34Z

/ok to test 760b3d1

Update copyright headers for files modified in this PR to include 2025. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

Add NO_FILTER initialization to cuvsIvfPqSearch call in example to match updated API signature. Fixes compilation error: error: too few arguments to function 'cuvsIvfPqSearch' 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

benfred

The C++ cagra and ivf-* search code doesn't currently support using a bitmap filter - and passing one to it should throw an exception saying Unsupported sample filter type right now. Do the tests that you've added for the bitmap filters for cagra and ivf-pq/ivf-flat work for you?

We'd love to add this bitmap support to the cagra and ivf indices, but the challenge right now is to do this without increasing the binary size of the libcuvs.so (which has the filter type as a template parameter to the search methods).

I'm wondering if we should break up this PR into multiple changes - and just have the bitset changes for ivf-pq and the rust api in this PR?

benfred · 2025-10-31T17:44:40Z

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Remove TIERED_INDEX_C_TEST reference from CMakeLists.txt

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Remove test configuration for ann_tiered_index_c.cu which was deleted in the TieredIndex revert commit. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

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Apply pre-commit formatting to filters.rs

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- Update copyright header to SPDX format - Apply cargo fmt to function signatures 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

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Update copyright headers for files modified in this PR to include 2025. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

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Merge branch 'main' into main

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