milvus/internal/core/src/common/ArrayOffsets.h
Spade A f6f716bcfd
feat: impl StructArray -- support embedding searches embeddings in embedding list with element level filter expression (#45830)
issue: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/issues/42148

For a vector field inside a STRUCT, since a STRUCT can only appear as
the element type of an ARRAY field, the vector field in STRUCT is
effectively an array of vectors, i.e. an embedding list.
Milvus already supports searching embedding lists with metrics whose
names start with the prefix MAX_SIM_.

This PR allows Milvus to search embeddings inside an embedding list
using the same metrics as normal embedding fields. Each embedding in the
list is treated as an independent vector and participates in ANN search.

Further, since STRUCT may contain scalar fields that are highly related
to the embedding field, this PR introduces an element-level filter
expression to refine search results.
The grammar of the element-level filter is:

element_filter(structFieldName, $[subFieldName] == 3)

where $[subFieldName] refers to the value of subFieldName in each
element of the STRUCT array structFieldName.

It can be combined with existing filter expressions, for example:

"varcharField == 'aaa' && element_filter(struct_field, $[struct_int] ==
3)"

A full example:
```
struct_schema = milvus_client.create_struct_field_schema()
struct_schema.add_field("struct_str", DataType.VARCHAR, max_length=65535)
struct_schema.add_field("struct_int", DataType.INT32)
struct_schema.add_field("struct_float_vec", DataType.FLOAT_VECTOR, dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)

schema.add_field(
    "struct_field",
    datatype=DataType.ARRAY,
    element_type=DataType.STRUCT,
    struct_schema=struct_schema,
    max_capacity=1000,
)
...

filter = "varcharField == 'aaa' && element_filter(struct_field, $[struct_int] == 3 && $[struct_str] == 'abc')"
res = milvus_client.search(
    COLLECTION_NAME,
    data=query_embeddings,
    limit=10,
    anns_field="struct_field[struct_float_vec]",
    filter=filter,
    output_fields=["struct_field[struct_int]", "varcharField"],
)

```
TODO:
1. When an `element_filter` expression is used, a regular filter
expression must also be present. Remove this restriction.
2. Implement `element_filter` expressions in the `query`.

---------

Signed-off-by: SpadeA <tangchenjie1210@gmail.com>
2025-12-15 12:01:15 +08:00

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#pragma once
#include <vector>
#include <utility>
#include <map>
#include <memory>
#include <shared_mutex>
#include "cachinglayer/Manager.h"
#include "common/Types.h"
#include "common/EasyAssert.h"
#include "common/FieldMeta.h"
namespace milvus {
class IArrayOffsets {
public:
virtual ~IArrayOffsets() = default;
virtual int64_t
GetRowCount() const = 0;
virtual int64_t
GetTotalElementCount() const = 0;
// Convert element ID to row ID
// returns pair of <row_id, element_index>
// element id is contiguous between rows
virtual std::pair<int32_t, int32_t>
ElementIDToRowID(int32_t elem_id) const = 0;
// Convert row ID to element ID range
// elements with id in [ret.first, ret.last) belong to row_id
virtual std::pair<int32_t, int32_t>
ElementIDRangeOfRow(int32_t row_id) const = 0;
// Convert row-level bitsets to element-level bitsets
virtual std::pair<TargetBitmap, TargetBitmap>
RowBitsetToElementBitset(
const TargetBitmapView& row_bitset,
const TargetBitmapView& valid_row_bitset) const = 0;
};
class ArrayOffsetsSealed : public IArrayOffsets {
friend class ArrayOffsetsTest;
public:
ArrayOffsetsSealed() : element_row_ids_(), row_to_element_start_({0}) {
}
ArrayOffsetsSealed(std::vector<int32_t> element_row_ids,
std::vector<int32_t> row_to_element_start)
: element_row_ids_(std::move(element_row_ids)),
row_to_element_start_(std::move(row_to_element_start)) {
AssertInfo(!row_to_element_start_.empty(),
"row_to_element_start must have at least one element");
}
~ArrayOffsetsSealed() {
cachinglayer::Manager::GetInstance().RefundLoadedResource(
{resource_size_, 0});
}
int64_t
GetRowCount() const override {
return static_cast<int64_t>(row_to_element_start_.size()) - 1;
}
int64_t
GetTotalElementCount() const override {
return element_row_ids_.size();
}
std::pair<int32_t, int32_t>
ElementIDToRowID(int32_t elem_id) const override;
std::pair<int32_t, int32_t>
ElementIDRangeOfRow(int32_t row_id) const override;
std::pair<TargetBitmap, TargetBitmap>
RowBitsetToElementBitset(
const TargetBitmapView& row_bitset,
const TargetBitmapView& valid_row_bitset) const override;
static std::shared_ptr<ArrayOffsetsSealed>
BuildFromSegment(const void* segment, const FieldMeta& field_meta);
private:
const std::vector<int32_t> element_row_ids_;
const std::vector<int32_t> row_to_element_start_;
int64_t resource_size_{0};
};
class ArrayOffsetsGrowing : public IArrayOffsets {
public:
ArrayOffsetsGrowing() = default;
void
Insert(int64_t row_id_start, const int32_t* array_lengths, int64_t count);
int64_t
GetRowCount() const override {
std::shared_lock lock(mutex_);
return committed_row_count_;
}
int64_t
GetTotalElementCount() const override {
std::shared_lock lock(mutex_);
return element_row_ids_.size();
}
std::pair<int32_t, int32_t>
ElementIDToRowID(int32_t elem_id) const override;
std::pair<int32_t, int32_t>
ElementIDRangeOfRow(int32_t row_id) const override;
std::pair<TargetBitmap, TargetBitmap>
RowBitsetToElementBitset(
const TargetBitmapView& row_bitset,
const TargetBitmapView& valid_row_bitset) const override;
private:
struct PendingRow {
int64_t row_id;
int32_t array_len;
};
void
DrainPendingRows();
private:
std::vector<int32_t> element_row_ids_;
std::vector<int32_t> row_to_element_start_;
// Number of rows committed (contiguous from 0)
int32_t committed_row_count_ = 0;
// Pending rows waiting for earlier rows to complete
// Key: row_id, automatically sorted
std::map<int64_t, PendingRow> pending_rows_;
// Protects all member variables
mutable std::shared_mutex mutex_;
};
} // namespace milvus