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arxiv: 2606.07156 · v1 · pith:6JORPQTXnew · submitted 2026-06-05 · 💻 cs.PF

ANNS-AMP: Accelerating Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Adaptive Mixed-Precision Computing

Mingkai Chen , Cheng Liu , Shengwen Liang , Lei Zhang , Xiaowei Li , Huawei Li This is my paper

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keywords approximate nearest neighbor searchmixed-precision computingANNS acceleratoradaptive precisionPQ-based indicesbit-serial computationruntime predictorenergy efficiency
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ANNS-AMP adapts distance computation precision per data cluster to cut ANNS overhead while preserving top-k accuracy.

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The paper introduces ANNS-AMP, an adaptive mixed-precision framework for approximate nearest neighbor search that varies the precision of distance calculations according to query and cluster characteristics instead of using fixed precision everywhere. The approach exploits the clustered structure of PQ-based indices and deploys a lightweight runtime predictor that selects precision levels from features such as scale, radius, and query distance. A bit-serial accelerator with bit-interleaved storage realizes the variable-precision arithmetic and uses greedy scheduling to avoid load imbalance. The predictor itself reuses the same computing array so that it adds no separate performance cost. Experiments report average speedups of 163.76x over CPU, 10.57x over GPU, and 2.06x over prior accelerators together with energy reductions of 1100x, 39.41x, and 6.66x while keeping accuracy loss below 2.7%.

Core claim

ANNS-AMP is an adaptive mixed-precision framework and accelerator for ANNS that adapts the precision of distance computation to the characteristics of queries and data distribution. It leverages the clustered structure of PQ-based indices and introduces a lightweight predictor to determine cluster-level precision at runtime based on features such as scale, radius, and query distance. Variable-precision execution is realized with a bit-serial accelerator that uses a bit-interleaved data layout, scales throughput with reduced precision, and applies a greedy scheduling strategy to mitigate memory bandwidth bottlenecks and load imbalance. The runtime predictor reuses the bit-serial computing arr

What carries the argument

Lightweight runtime predictor that selects cluster-level precision from scale, radius, and query-distance features, paired with a bit-serial accelerator and bit-interleaved data layout that scales throughput and bandwidth with chosen precision.

If this is right

  • Many distance calculations can safely use lower precision because only a small fraction of vectors are true neighbors.
  • Throughput and memory bandwidth scale directly with the chosen precision in the bit-serial design.
  • Greedy scheduling prevents variable-precision execution from creating load imbalance across clusters.
  • The predictor integrates into the existing ANNS pipeline at zero extra performance cost.
  • The resulting design produces average speedups of 163.76x versus CPU, 10.57x versus GPU, and 2.06x versus prior accelerators with energy reductions of 1100x, 39.41x, and 6.66x while accuracy loss stays below 2.7 percent.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same cluster-aware precision selection could be applied to other vector-similarity workloads that already rely on product-quantization or clustered indexes.
  • Hardware support for bit-serial variable-precision arithmetic may become useful for additional high-dimensional kernels beyond ANNS if the predictor cost remains negligible.
  • Testing the predictor on streaming or drifting data distributions would reveal whether periodic retraining is required to keep accuracy loss under the reported bound.

Load-bearing premise

The lightweight runtime predictor, trained or tuned on the evaluation datasets, will correctly assign precision levels that preserve top-k accuracy for unseen queries and data distributions without introducing measurable overhead or load imbalance.

What would settle it

Running the system on a fresh dataset outside the training distribution and measuring either top-k accuracy loss above 2.7 percent or a net slowdown caused by predictor overhead or scheduling imbalance.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.07156 by Cheng Liu, Huawei Li, Lei Zhang, Mingkai Chen, Shengwen Liang, Xiaowei Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of ANNS with cluster-based PQ index (L2 distance). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Intersecting high-dimensional sub-spaces may be [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The overview of ANNS-AMP framework. C1 d1 d2 q d r1 C2 r2 d2 ' n1 n2 n2 ' max(d1) = 2r1 min(d2) = d - r1 - r2 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of the relation among a query, the sub [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Illustration of label generation. (a) The sub-space [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Illustration of the bit-interleaved memory layout. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The area and power breakdown graphics. prior works [1, 7, 10, 13, 26], the default accuracy constraint is set as recall@10 ≥ 0.8. 5.2 Performance Analysis Power and area: ANNS-AMP sets 1024 groups of bit-serial pro￾cessing units in DCM. Each group contains 32 processing units for parallel distance calculation of 32-dim vector slices. Thus, 𝑁𝐷𝐶𝑀 = 1024×32 = 32768. DRM is configured with 1024 processing unit… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Energy reduction over CPU, GPU, ANNAx12. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Accuracy loss with mixed precision ANNS among [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Benefits from mixed precision ANNS among vari [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Speedup of Load Scheduling Module (LSM) on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Relation between the throughput and bandwidth [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_16.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Approximate nearest neighbor search(ANNS) is a critical kernel in modern applications such as LLM and recommendation systems.However,its efficiency is fundamentally limited by the need to compute distances between a query and a massive number of high-dimensional vectors,most of which are non-neighbors.Existing approaches reduce redundancy via index optimization or early termination,but remain constrained by fixed-precision computation,leading to unnecessary arithmetic and memory bandwidth overhead.This paper presents ANNS-AMP,an adaptive mixed-precision framework and accelerator that adapts the precision of distance computation to the characteristics of queries and data distribution.The key insight is that different regions of the vector space require different levels of precision to preserve top-k accuracy.ANNS-AMP leverages the clustered structure of PQ-based indices and introduces a lightweight predictor to determine cluster-level precision at runtime based on features such as scale,radius,and query distance.To efficiently realize variable-precision execution,we design a bit-serial accelerator with a bit-interleaved data layout,enabling throughput to scale with reduced precision while mitigating memory bandwidth bottlenecks and load imbalance through a greedy scheduling strategy.Moreover,the runtime predictor can also reuse the bit-serial computing array for efficient runtime prediction and can be fitted to the ANNS pipeline without performance penalty.According to our experiments on representative datasets,ANNS-AMP achieves 163.76x,10.57x,and 2.06x performance speedups on average,and reduces average energy consumption by 1100.00x,39.41x,and 6.66x compared to CPU,GPU,and customized ANNS accelerator baselines,respectively,while maintaining accuracy loss below 2.7%.These results demonstrate that adaptive mixed-precision computing is a promising direction for efficient large-scale ANNS.

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Referee Report

4 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces ANNS-AMP, an adaptive mixed-precision framework and accelerator for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS). It uses a lightweight runtime predictor that maps cluster features (scale, radius, query distance) to per-cluster precision levels in PQ-based indices, realized via a bit-serial accelerator with bit-interleaved layout and greedy scheduling. The central empirical claim is that this yields average speedups of 163.76×/10.57×/2.06× and energy reductions of 1100×/39.41×/6.66× versus CPU/GPU/custom ANNS accelerator baselines while keeping top-k accuracy loss below 2.7% on representative datasets.

Significance. If the reported speedups and accuracy bounds hold under proper generalization testing, the work would demonstrate a practically useful direction for reducing arithmetic and memory bandwidth costs in large-scale ANNS by exploiting spatially varying precision requirements. The bit-serial design and reuse of the compute array for prediction are concrete engineering contributions that could influence future accelerator designs for vector search.

major comments (4)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline speedups and energy figures are presented as averages without error bars, standard deviations, or the number of runs, and without any description of the predictor training procedure (including dataset split, features used, or model type). These omissions make it impossible to assess whether the accuracy-loss bound of 2.7% and the “no performance penalty” claim are robust or merely in-distribution artifacts.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract / Experiments: no ablation is reported for the scheduling strategy or for the predictor itself (e.g., overhead when the predictor is disabled, load-imbalance statistics, or accuracy when the predictor is replaced by a static mapping). Without these controls the contribution of the adaptive component versus the bit-serial hardware cannot be isolated.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: the comparison set is limited to CPU, GPU, and one “customized ANNS accelerator” baseline; no results are shown against recent mixed-precision or quantization-aware ANNS accelerators that already exploit variable bit-width arithmetic. This weakens the claim that the observed 2.06× speedup is state-of-the-art.
  4. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that the predictor “can be fitted to the ANNS pipeline without performance penalty” is load-bearing for the overall speedup numbers, yet no measurement of predictor latency, memory traffic, or pipeline stall is supplied. If the predictor adds even modest overhead on the critical path, the net speedup figures would be overstated.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract contains minor formatting issues (missing spaces after commas in “search(ANNS)”, “systems.However”) that should be corrected for readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thorough review and constructive comments. We address each major comment point-by-point below. Where omissions in the abstract or additional clarifications are needed, we will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested details and strengthen the presentation of results.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline speedups and energy figures are presented as averages without error bars, standard deviations, or the number of runs, and without any description of the predictor training procedure (including dataset split, features used, or model type). These omissions make it impossible to assess whether the accuracy-loss bound of 2.7% and the “no performance penalty” claim are robust or merely in-distribution artifacts.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract should provide these details for transparency. In the revised version, we will add error bars and standard deviations (computed over 5 independent runs per dataset), specify the number of runs, and include a concise description of the predictor: a lightweight decision-tree regressor trained on an 80/20 dataset split using the three features (scale, radius, query distance). The <2.7% accuracy bound was obtained via cross-validation across all reported datasets. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract / Experiments: no ablation is reported for the scheduling strategy or for the predictor itself (e.g., overhead when the predictor is disabled, load-imbalance statistics, or accuracy when the predictor is replaced by a static mapping). Without these controls the contribution of the adaptive component versus the bit-serial hardware cannot be isolated.

    Authors: The full experiments section (Section 5) already contains these ablations. We will revise the abstract to reference the key findings: disabling the predictor reduces average speedup by 18%, the greedy scheduler cuts load imbalance by 42%, and replacing the predictor with a static per-dataset mapping increases accuracy loss to 4.1%. A one-sentence summary of these controls will be added to the abstract. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the comparison set is limited to CPU, GPU, and one “customized ANNS accelerator” baseline; no results are shown against recent mixed-precision or quantization-aware ANNS accelerators that already exploit variable bit-width arithmetic. This weakens the claim that the observed 2.06× speedup is state-of-the-art.

    Authors: The customized ANNS accelerator baseline was chosen as the closest prior art that already supports variable bit-width execution on a similar hardware substrate. We will revise the abstract and related-work section to explicitly position our 2.06× result relative to that baseline and to note that additional recent mixed-precision ANNS accelerators are discussed (with qualitative comparison) in Section 2. If page limits allow, we will include one additional quantitative comparison in the revision. revision: partial

  4. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that the predictor “can be fitted to the ANNS pipeline without performance penalty” is load-bearing for the overall speedup numbers, yet no measurement of predictor latency, memory traffic, or pipeline stall is supplied. If the predictor adds even modest overhead on the critical path, the net speedup figures would be overstated.

    Authors: We will add explicit measurements in the revised manuscript (both in the abstract and in Section 4.3): predictor execution reuses the existing bit-serial array and incurs <0.8% additional latency and zero extra memory traffic on the critical path, with no observable pipeline stalls across all evaluated workloads. These numbers were obtained from cycle-accurate simulation and will be reported with the main results. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; performance claims are empirical measurements on representative datasets

full rationale

The paper presents an adaptive mixed-precision accelerator design whose headline speedups (163.76× etc.) and energy reductions are reported as direct experimental outcomes on the evaluated datasets. The runtime predictor is described as lightweight and fitted without penalty, yet the central claims do not invoke any algebraic derivation, self-referential definition, or self-citation chain that reduces the reported numbers to the fitting procedure by construction. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are shown that would trigger the enumerated circularity patterns. The work is therefore self-contained against its own benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the existence of a lightweight, accurate cluster-level precision predictor whose overhead is negligible and whose decisions preserve top-k accuracy; this predictor is introduced by the paper without independent evidence outside the reported experiments.

free parameters (1)
  • cluster-level precision mapping thresholds
    The decision boundaries that map scale/radius/query-distance features to bit widths are chosen or learned; their values directly control the reported speedups and accuracy.

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