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osobhandClaude Fable 5.1 c19199f3eb perf(ann): batched bulk build, parallel with the parallel feature
Profiling the build showed 90% of all distance evaluations are in back-link
pruning (40.8M of 44.9M at 10K): every overflow re-runs the diversity
heuristic pairwise over ~max_conn candidates.

The bulk build now inserts in batches: plan every node's neighbours against
the graph as it stood when the batch began (read-only, so plans are
independent), link, then prune each overflowing list once. A node gaining
several back-links in a batch is pruned once rather than once per link, so
this is faster even single-threaded (10K: 1676 -> 1074 ms). With `parallel`,
planning and pruning use rayon (10K: 388 ms; 100K: ~21 s -> 5.9 s on 16
cores). Batches start at one node and are capped at 1/16 of the linked graph
and 512 nodes; a node that raises the top layer gets a batch to itself. The
result is deterministic and identical with or without the feature (one code
path; test compares two builds byte for byte).

Parallelising within a single insert was tried first: 1.45x on 16 cores, tasks
too small. Incremental insert() stays sequential.

Recall on clustered data is unchanged or slightly better; uniform random data
dips slightly (10K, ef=64: 0.474 -> 0.444).

clawhdf5-agent's `parallel` feature now passes through to the index.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 13:43:49 -07:00
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clawhdf5-agent

crates.io docs.rs

HDF5-backed persistent memory store for on-device AI agents.

Built on clawhdf5, clawhdf5-agent provides a vector-searchable memory backend optimized for edge AI workloads. Store embeddings, text chunks, and metadata in a single HDF5 file with SIMD-accelerated similarity search.

Features

  • Persistent vector store in HDF5 format
  • Cosine similarity and L2 distance search
  • SIMD-accelerated via clawhdf5-accel (AVX2, NEON)
  • Optional GPU acceleration via clawhdf5-gpu
  • Memory-mapped access for large stores
  • f16 storage support for compact embeddings

Usage

[dependencies]
clawhdf5-agent = "2.1.0"

License

MIT