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build_fine_clusters scanned all mesocluster labels on the host once per mesocluster, through managed memory, so the GPU sat idle for much of the fine stage. This PR groups row ids by mesocluster label with a single device radix sort, then slices each mesocluster's range by the size prefix sum. It also removes the hard-coded managed_memory_resource (the old TODO) in favor of the handle's workspace resources.

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Balanced k-means fit, k = 8192, 10 iterations, B100 (sm_100). Each time is the median of 3 runs.

Dataset dtype main this PR Δ
OpenAI 5M × 1536 f32 1.48 s 1.23 s −17%
OpenAI 5M × 1536 f16 1.08 s 0.76 s −30%
Coyo f32 2.01 s 1.76 s −12%
Coyo f16 1.49 s 1.17 s −21%

Inertia and cluster-size balance are unchanged: both fall within the run-to-run spread of main.

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  • Improvements
    • Fine-cluster creation now groups rows by mesocluster in a stable order and respects the configured maximum mesocluster size for training.
    • IVF-PQ cluster indexing and size handling have been updated for more reliable processing across clusters.
    • Minibatch sizing continues to account for row norms and adjust batch sizes to fit the available workspace budget.

Balanced K-means now groups row IDs by mesocluster for fine-cluster training. IVF-PQ training copies cluster sizes and offsets to host buffers before per-cluster processing, and copies the maximum cluster size from device to host.

Changes: Balanced K-means fine-cluster construction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stable grouping and fine-cluster training
cpp/src/cluster/detail/kmeans_balanced.cuh
Fine-cluster construction stably sorts row IDs by mesocluster and trains on up to mesocluster_size_max rows from each contiguous group. The stream synchronization after copying fine centers is removed.
Workspace allocation and builder handoff
cpp/src/cluster/detail/kmeans_balanced.cuh
The hierarchical builder allocates mesocluster labels and sizes from device workspaces. It copies sizes to a host vector and synchronizes before passing the host sizes and device labels to fine-cluster construction.

IVF-PQ per-cluster training

Layer / File(s) Summary
Host metadata for cluster training
cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_build.cuh
The maximum cluster size is copied from device to host. Per-cluster sizes and offsets use device workspace, then are copied to host vectors for the training loop and residual selection.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/cuvs#2804: Both PRs update the IVF-PQ cluster-offset and per-cluster training path.

Suggested labels: improvement, non-breaking

Suggested reviewers: tarang-jain, tfeher

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Large single-mesocluster fits may run out of GPU memory unnecessarily. Address the allocation before merging.

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// Row ids grouped by mesocluster, in row order within each, so that each mesocluster's training
// rows are a contiguous range (the first `mesocluster_size_max` of them, as before)
rmm::device_uvector<IdxT> grouped_ids(n_rows, stream, large_ws);
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Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Skip the radix sort when there is one mesocluster.

When n_clusters is one or two, build_hierarchical sets n_mesoclusters to one. Every row then has the same mesocluster label. This path still allocates row_ids, sorted_labels, and CUB sort workspace, although sorting cannot change the row order. On a large input, those avoidable device allocations can make fit fail with out-of-memory. Initialize grouped_ids as a sequence in this case, and run the sort only when n_mesoclusters > 1. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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sherylll and others added 2 commits November 4, 2026 21:11
build_fine_clusters scanned all mesocluster labels on the host once per
mesocluster, through managed memory, leaving the GPU idle in the fine
stage. Group row ids by label with one device radix sort instead and
slice each mesocluster's range by the size prefix sum. This also drops
the hard-coded managed_memory_resource in favor of the handle's
workspace resources.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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sherylll and others added 2 commits November 6, 2026 08:49
Keep the cluster sizes and offsets in device workspace memory and copy
them to the host once before the per-cluster loop, instead of reading
managed memory from the host. Copy the max cluster size back explicitly
rather than dereferencing a device pointer on the host.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thank you for this fix! Everything looks good, just a small nitpick below.

{
rmm::device_uvector<IdxT> row_ids(n_rows, stream, large_ws);
rmm::device_uvector<LabelT> sorted_labels(n_rows, stream, large_ws);
thrust::sequence(raft::resource::get_thrust_policy(handle), row_ids.begin(), row_ids.end());

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Plese use raft::linalg::map_offset(raft::identity_op) for this.

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