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Chris LuandClaude Fable 5.1 b5951c5c7c seaweed-vector: probe policy for indexed queries (ANN phase 1) (#12412)
* seaweed-vector: build and extend the vector index

weed_lance_worker::vector_index builds an IVF_FLAT index in the metric the
table was created with, sizes partitions from the row count, and extends an
index with a new segment or a retrain; the core crate re-exports it and adds
the probes a query spends. Tests cover coverage after build, append, retrain
and compaction.

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* weed-vector-cli: index build and index optimize

Logs go to stderr so stdout stays the JSON a caller parses.

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* test/s3vectors: PERF_INDEX builds the index before the timed queries

The cluster fixture hands out its catalog URL, the Makefile builds
weed-vector-cli, and the perf suite builds the index after ingest and
reports the build time and segment count.

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* seaweed-vector: probe a tenth of the index's partitions, more under a filter

A query that names no probe count gets one from the index's partition
count. Lance searches at least that many partitions, and under a prefilter
keeps going until it has k rows; without one it stops there.

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* weed-vector: --nprobes overrides the probe policy

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* seaweed-vector: test that a build takes the table's metric

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* test/s3vectors: make clean removes weed-vector-cli

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* seaweed-vector: measure recall with vectors the table does not hold

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* weed-vector: keep the read cache's doc comment on with_read_cache

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* seaweed-vector: optimize only the indices on the vector column

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* seaweed-vector: resolve the query metric with index::distance_metric

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* seaweed-vector: test the L2 metric under the name CreateIndex stores

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* weed-worker: open a table inside a caller's Lance session

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* weed-vector: keep opened indices between queries in one session

Every open used a fresh Lance session, so the index and metadata caches
died with the request and each query loaded the IVF index again.
--index-cache-mb sizes the shared cache, 512 MiB by default.

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* test/s3vectors: PERF_CLUSTERS draws the perf suite's vectors around shared centres

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* seaweed-vector: test that compaction drops the deleted key from tied hits

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* seaweed-vector: test that an append-only optimize serves the new row

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* test/s3vectors: record PERF_NOISE in the perf report config

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* seaweed-vector: a filtered query widens to four times the probes, not without bound

With no upper bound Lance prepares every partition for the late search
even when the minimum probes already hold k rows, and a filtered query
through the index cost as much as the exact scan. A query that names its
own probe count gets exactly that count.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011UpvafvK8JpagF94MHWqwK

* test/s3vectors: report recall through an index without asserting it

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* test/s3vectors: count a hit tying the k-th best score toward recall

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* test/s3vectors: allow float32 rounding at the recall cutoff

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* test/s3vectors: count a repeated hit key once toward recall

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* test/s3vectors: credit cutoff ties only up to the slots the top-k leaves

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* test/s3vectors: assert every filtered hit passes the filter, indexed or not

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* weed-vector: forget the shared session when a table was dropped and created again

The session keys index lists and transactions by dataset version, and a
table created again at the same location restarts its versions. An open
that finds an older version than the newest seen at that URI, or the same
version committed later, replaces the session and opens again.

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* weed-vector: test an open after another engine created the table again

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* weed-vector: replace the session in the same lock that records a recreated table

A second open of the recreated table could see the new version recorded
and the old session still shared, and keep the dropped table's index list.

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* seaweed-vector: size default probes from the largest index on the column

A sharded build gives the column one index name per shard. The first
name alone could be a small shard, and its probe count would then be
spent on a larger one.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011UpvafvK8JpagF94MHWqwK

* seaweed-vector: skip the probe lookup when a query is given no segments

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* weed-vector: open every table in its own Lance session again

One session shared by every open keeps a table's index loaded between
queries, but Lance keys what it caches by location and version, so a
table dropped and created again at the same location could be served
the old table's index list. Telling the two apart from version and
commit time needs a map that only grows, a retry loop and clocks that
agree across engines. A private session per open, as before, has no
such state. Measured at 50k x 384 through an index, eight clients: 164
queries/s with the shared session, 137 without; one client is unchanged.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011UpvafvK8JpagF94MHWqwK

* weed-vector: reject --nprobes 0

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011UpvafvK8JpagF94MHWqwK

* seaweed-vector: read the partition count from the opened index

Lance's index statistics took 3.6 ms a query on a 200k-row table with
447 partitions. Opening the index and asking it takes 0.4 ms, and the
scan that follows finds the index already open.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011UpvafvK8JpagF94MHWqwK

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