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Avoid full Hamming matrix when filling MUVERA clusters
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Test MUVERA nearest occupied cluster filling
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perf: look up MUVERA cluster distances in a precomputed popcount table
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22 changes: 13 additions & 9 deletions fastembed/postprocess/muvera.py
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]
# Random projection matrices with entries from {-1, +1} for each repetition
self.dim_reduction_projections = generator.choice([-1, 1], size=(r_reps, dim, dim_proj))
# Hamming distance between two cluster ids is the popcount of their XOR, which is
# itself a cluster id, so per-id popcounts are enough to get any pairwise distance
cluster_ids = np.arange(2**k_sim, dtype=np.uint64)
self._cluster_id_popcounts = POPCOUNT_LUT[cluster_ids.view(np.uint8).reshape(-1, 8)].sum(
axis=1
)

@classmethod
def from_multivector_model(
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# num of space partitions in SimHash
num_partitions = 2**self.k_sim
cluster_center_ids = np.arange(num_partitions)
precomputed_hamming_matrix = (
hamming_distance_matrix(cluster_center_ids) if fill_empty_clusters else None
)

for projection_index, simhash in enumerate(self.simhash_projections):
# Initialize cluster centers and count vectors assigned to each cluster
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# Fill empty clusters using vectors with minimum Hamming distance
if fill_empty_clusters:
assert empty_mask is not None
assert precomputed_hamming_matrix is not None
masked_hamming = np.where(
empty_mask[None, :], MAX_HAMMING_DISTANCE, precomputed_hamming_matrix
)
nearest_non_empty = np.argmin(masked_hamming, axis=1)
# Compare empty clusters only with occupied clusters. Both ID arrays
# are sorted, preserving the original argmin tie-breaking order.
occupied_ids = cluster_center_ids[~empty_mask]
empty_ids = cluster_center_ids[empty_mask]
hamming = self._cluster_id_popcounts[empty_ids[:, None] ^ occupied_ids[None, :]]

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Avoid the larger-document performance regression.

For documents with many occupied clusters, Line 341 rebuilds an empty-by-occupied distance array for every projection. The supplied benchmark reports 134.10 ms versus 74.22 ms on main at k_sim=10 and 1,000 tokens. Keep the lookup path for sparse assignments, but consider a measured fallback for denser assignments before replacing the full-matrix path in all cases.

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Review comment at @fastembed/postprocess/muvera.py at line 341:
Update the `hamming` lookup in the projection postprocessing path to retain the
sparse-assignment lookup for sparse inputs, but use a measured density threshold
to select a more efficient fallback for dense assignments. Avoid rebuilding the
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nearest_non_empty = occupied_ids[np.argmin(hamming, axis=1)]
fill_vectors = np.array(
[
vectors[cluster_center_id_to_vectors[cluster_id][0]]
for cluster_id in nearest_non_empty[empty_mask]
for cluster_id in nearest_non_empty
]
).reshape(-1, self.dim)
cluster_centers[empty_mask] = fill_vectors
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26 changes: 26 additions & 0 deletions tests/test_postprocess.py
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from fastembed import LateInteractionTextEmbedding
from fastembed.postprocess import Muvera
from fastembed.postprocess.muvera import MAX_HAMMING_DISTANCE, hamming_distance_matrix

CANONICAL_VALUES = [-2.61810007e-04, 1.89005750e00, -2.32070747e00]
CANONICAL_QUERY_VALUES = [
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with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Cannot encode an empty multivector"):
muvera.process_query(empty)


def test_muvera_fills_from_nearest_occupied_cluster():
muvera = Muvera(dim=2, k_sim=2, dim_proj=2, r_reps=1)
muvera.simhash_projections[0].get_cluster_ids = lambda vectors: np.array([0, 3])
vectors = np.array([[1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0]])
np.testing.assert_array_equal(
muvera.process_document(vectors).reshape(4, 2),
[vectors[0], vectors[0], vectors[0], vectors[1]],
)


@pytest.mark.parametrize("k_sim", [1, 5, 8])
def test_muvera_fills_match_full_matrix_reference(k_sim):
n = 2**k_sim
ids = np.random.default_rng(0).integers(0, 256, size=20) % n
empty = np.bincount(ids, minlength=n) == 0
full = hamming_distance_matrix(np.arange(n))
full[:, empty] = MAX_HAMMING_DISTANCE
expected_source_ids = np.argmin(full, axis=1)[empty]
vectors = np.arange(len(ids), dtype=np.float64)[:, None] + 1
muvera = Muvera(dim=1, k_sim=k_sim, dim_proj=1, r_reps=1)
muvera.simhash_projections[0].get_cluster_ids = lambda vectors: ids
result = muvera.process_document(vectors).reshape(n, 1)
for empty_id, nearest in zip(np.flatnonzero(empty), expected_source_ids):
assert result[empty_id, 0] == vectors[np.flatnonzero(ids == nearest)[0], 0]
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