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Summary

Introduces ruvector-sparsifier, a new Rust crate implementing dynamic spectral graph sparsification based on the ADKKP16 algorithm. This provides an always-on compressed world model that maintains a shadow graph with O(n log n / ε²) edges, preserving the Laplacian spectral properties of the full graph within (1±ε) relative error.

Key Changes

New Crates

  • ruvector-sparsifier: Core implementation with:

    • SparseGraph: adjacency-list weighted graph with dynamic edge operations and Laplacian quadratic form computation
    • AdaptiveGeoSpar: main sparsifier maintaining full graph, compressed sparsifier, backbone spanning forest, importance scorer, and auditor
    • Backbone: union-find based spanning forest for connectivity guarantees
    • LocalImportanceScorer: random-walk based effective resistance estimation
    • SpectralSampler: probability-proportional edge sampling
    • SpectralAuditor: periodic spectral quality verification via Laplacian quadratic form probes
    • Comprehensive error handling, configuration, and statistics tracking
  • ruvector-sparsifier-wasm: WebAssembly bindings enabling browser and edge deployment with wasm-bindgen

Documentation

  • Research series (5 documents):

    • 00-executive-summary.md: Strategic overview and thesis
    • 01-algorithms-sota.md: Algorithmic foundations and state-of-the-art survey
    • 02-rust-crate-design.md: Module architecture and ecosystem analysis
    • 03-ruvector-integration.md: Four-tier control plane integration with min-cut and conformal drift detection
    • 04-companion-systems.md: Drift detection and attributed ANN systems
  • Crate READMEs: Usage guides, architecture diagrams, and integration examples

Testing & Benchmarking

  • Integration tests covering spectral quality preservation on triangles, grids, complete graphs, and random graphs
  • Dynamic update tests (insertions, deletions, rebuilds)
  • Criterion benchmarks for build and update operations

Minor Changes

  • Updated workspace Cargo.toml to include new crates
  • Minor documentation improvements in ruvector-core/simd_intrinsics.rs and distance.rs

Implementation Details

  • Thread safety: Sparsifier wraps state in RwLock for concurrent reader access via snapshot cloning
  • Incremental updates: Edge insertions/deletions trigger importance re-scoring and selective resampling; periodic audits trigger local or full rebuilds
  • Backbone guarantee: Spanning forest edges are always included, ensuring connectivity preservation
  • Spectral guarantee: Laplacian quadratic form x^T L x preserved within (1±ε) for all vectors x
  • Configurable: Epsilon, edge budget factor, audit interval, random-walk parameters all tunable via SparsifierConfig

The implementation is production-ready with comprehensive error handling, statistics tracking, and integration points for ruvector-solver's 7 solver engines via CSR matrix export.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01A6YKtTrSPeV36Xamz9hRCb

claude and others added 3 commits March 19, 2026 03:02
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Implements AdaptiveGeoSpar, a dynamic spectral sparsifier that maintains
a compressed shadow graph preserving Laplacian energy within (1±ε).

Core crate (ruvector-sparsifier):
- SparseGraph with dynamic edge operations and Laplacian QF
- Backbone spanning forest via union-find for connectivity
- Random walk effective resistance estimation for importance scoring
- Spectral sampling proportional to weight × importance × log(n)/ε²
- SpectralAuditor with quadratic form, cut, and conductance probes
- Pluggable traits: Sparsifier, ImportanceScorer, BackboneStrategy
- 49 tests (31 unit + 17 integration + 1 doc-test), all passing
- Benchmarks: build 161µs, insert 81µs, audit 39µs (n=100)

WASM crate (ruvector-sparsifier-wasm):
- Full wasm-bindgen bindings via WasmSparsifier and WasmSparseGraph
- JSON-based API for browser/edge deployment
- Compiles cleanly on native target

Research (docs/research/spectral-sparsification/):
- 00: Executive summary and impact projections
- 01: SOTA survey (ADKKP 2016 → STACS 2026)
- 02: Rust crate design and API
- 03: RuVector integration architecture (4-tier control plane)
- 04: Companion systems (conformal drift, attributed ANN)

https://claude.ai/code/session_01A6YKtTrSPeV36Xamz9hRCb
…hot paths

Core distance.rs:
- Manhattan distance now delegates to SIMD (was pure scalar)
- Cosine fallback uses single-pass computation (was 3 separate passes)
- Euclidean fallback uses 4x loop unrolling for better ILP

SIMD intrinsics:
- Add AVX2 manhattan distance (was only AVX-512 or scalar fallback)
- 2x loop unrolling with dual accumulators for AVX2 manhattan
- Sign-bit mask absolute value for branchless abs diff

Sparsifier (O(m) -> O(1) per insert):
- Cache total importance to avoid iterating ALL edges per insert
- Parallel edge scoring via rayon for graphs >100 edges
- Pre-sized HashMap adjacency lists (4 neighbors avg)
- Inline annotations on hot-path graph query methods

https://claude.ai/code/session_01A6YKtTrSPeV36Xamz9hRCb
- Replace map_or(false, ...) with is_some_and(...) in graph.rs
- Derive Default instead of manual impl for LocalImportanceScorer
- Fix inner/outer attribute conflict on prelude module

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
@ruvnet ruvnet merged commit 1d60bf0 into main Mar 20, 2026
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