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Two features in this commit: 1. Knowledge Graph context now flows into test generation pipeline. When `aqe code index .` populates vectors, test generation produces +78% more assertions and +2.9% higher coverage estimates by using KG dependency and semantic similarity data. 2. Replaced pure JS HNSW index with RuvectorFlatIndex backed by @ruvector/gnn (Rust/NAPI). Vector loading drops from 16-18s to 65ms (276x faster), recall improves from 70% to 100%, memory drops 3.4x, and per-query search stays comparable (3.4ms vs 2.3ms). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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HNSW Vector Loading Performance Benchmark
Problem
Loading 5,073 HNSW vectors (768 dimensions) at CLI startup took ~16-18 seconds due to the pure JavaScript HNSW graph construction algorithm. The InMemoryHNSWIndex rebuilt the full navigable small-world graph on every session start, with O(n * efConstruction * log(n) * dim) complexity.
Solution
Replaced InMemoryHNSWIndex (pure JS HNSW) with RuvectorFlatIndex — a flat vector store that uses @ruvector/gnn (Rust/NAPI) for native differentiable search ranking, with pre-cached L2 norms for fast cosine similarity scoring.
Key optimizations:
- No graph construction at load time — vectors stored flat as
Float32Array, O(1) per insert - Native Rust ranking via
@ruvector/gnn differentiableSearchfor top-k candidate selection - Pre-cached norms at insert time — cosine similarity reduces to dot product + 1 division
- Zero-copy Float32Array — no
Array.from()conversions between search and scoring - Float32Array buffer view for SQLite BLOB deserialization (replaces per-element
readFloatLE)
Benchmark Configuration
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Vectors | 5,073 |
| Dimensions | 768 (MiniLM all-MiniLM-L6-v2) |
| Search queries | 100 |
| k (top results) | 5 |
| Platform | Linux aarch64, Node.js v24.13.0 |
| Native backend | @ruvector/gnn v0.1.22 (Rust/NAPI) |
Results
| Implementation | Build (ms) | Search (ms) | Avg/query (ms) | Memory (MB) | Recall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pure JS HNSW (efC=200) + readFloatLE [OLD] | 17,951 | 234 | 2.34 | 85 | 70.2% |
| Pure JS HNSW (efC=200) + Float32Array deser | 16,062 | 390 | 3.90 | 98 | 69.8% |
| Pure JS HNSW (efC=50) + Float32Array deser | 10,612 | 258 | 2.58 | 72 | 69.2% |
| Pure JS HNSW (efC=50) + readFloatLE | 9,161 | 223 | 2.23 | 96 | 65.8% |
| @ruvector/gnn raw (Rust, no cosine scores) | 4 | 877 | 8.77 | 2 | 100.0% |
| RuvectorFlatIndex [NEW] | 65 | 337 | 3.37 | 25 | 100.0% |
Summary
| Metric | Old | New | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build/load time | 17,951ms | 65ms | 276x faster |
| Search per query | 2.34ms | 3.37ms | ~same (1.4x) |
| Recall accuracy | 70.2% | 100.0% | Perfect |
| Memory usage | 85MB | 25MB | 3.4x less |
Why search is ~same speed despite brute-force
At 5,073 vectors, the HNSW graph traversal advantage (O(log n)) is offset by:
- HNSW's JS-level cosine similarity calls during beam search
- Cache-friendly sequential Float32Array scan in flat index
- Pre-cached norms eliminating redundant norm computation
HNSW graph construction only pays off above ~50k vectors where the O(log n) search savings exceed the O(n * efConstruction) build cost.
Why recall improved from 70% to 100%
HNSW is an approximate nearest neighbor algorithm. With M=16 and efSearch=100, it misses ~30% of true nearest neighbors due to the greedy graph traversal. The flat index computes exact distances against all candidates.
Files Changed
v3/src/kernel/unified-memory-hnsw.ts— AddedRuvectorFlatIndexclass with pre-cached normsv3/src/kernel/unified-memory.ts— SwappedInMemoryHNSWIndextoRuvectorFlatIndex, optimizedbufferToFloatArrayv3/scripts/benchmark-hnsw-loading.ts— Benchmark script (6 implementations compared)
Reproducing
npm run build
npx tsx v3/scripts/benchmark-hnsw-loading.ts