MeiliSearch/milli
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Merge #3768
3768: Fix bugs in graph-based ranking rules + make `words` a graph-based ranking rule r=dureuill a=loiclec

This PR contains three changes:

## 1. Don't call the `words` ranking rule if the term matching strategy is `All`

This is because the purpose of `words` is only to remove nodes from the query graph. It would never do any useful work when the matching strategy was `All`. Remember that the universe was already computed before by computing all the docids corresponding to the "maximally reduced" query graph, which, in the case of `All`, is equal to the original graph.

## 2. The `words` ranking rule is replaced by a graph-based ranking rule. 

This is for three reasons:

1. **performance**: graph-based ranking rules benefit from a lot of optimisations by default, which ensures that they are never too slow. The previous implementation of `words` could call `compute_query_graph_docids` many times if some words had to be removed from the query, which would be quite expensive. I was especially worried about its performance in cases where it is placed right after the `sort` ranking rule. Furthermore, `compute_query_graph_docids` would clone a lot of bitmaps many times unnecessarily.

2. **consistency**: every other ranking rule (except `sort`) is graph-based. It makes sense to implement `words` like that as well. It will automatically benefit from all the features, optimisations, and bug fixes that all the other ranking rules get.

3. **surfacing bugs**: as the first ranking rule to be called (most of the time), I'd like `words` to behave the same as the other ranking rules so that we can quickly detect bugs in our graph algorithms. This actually already happened, which is why this PR also contains a bug fix.

## 3. Fix the `update_all_costs_before_nodes` function

It is a bit difficult to explain what was wrong, but I'll try. The bug happened when we had graphs like:
<img width="730" alt="Screenshot 2023-05-16 at 10 58 57" src="https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/assets/6040237/40db1a68-d852-4e89-99d5-0d65757242a7">
and we gave the node `is` as argument.

Then, we'd walk backwards from the node breadth-first. We'd update the costs of:
1. `sun`
2. `thesun`
3. `start`
4. `the`

which is an incorrect order. The correct order is:

1. `sun`
2. `thesun`
3. `the`
4. `start`

That is, we can only update the cost of a node when all of its successors have either already been visited or were not affected by the update to the node passed as argument. To solve this bug, I factored out the graph-traversal logic into a `traverse_breadth_first_backward` function.


Co-authored-by: Loïc Lecrenier <loic.lecrenier@me.com>
Co-authored-by: Louis Dureuil <louis@meilisearch.com>
2023-05-23 13:28:08 +00:00
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examples Improve performance of the cheapest path finder algorithm 2023-05-02 09:59:42 +02:00
src Merge #3768 2023-05-23 13:28:08 +00:00
tests Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into search-refactor 2023-05-03 12:19:06 +02:00
Cargo.toml Use the new heed v0.12.6 2023-05-15 11:42:30 +02:00
README.md Add a README to the milli crate 2023-01-16 16:25:12 +01:00

the milli logo

a concurrent indexer combined with fast and relevant search algorithms

Introduction

This crate contains the internal engine used by Meilisearch.

It contains a library that can manage one and only one index. Meilisearch manages the multi-index itself. Milli is unable to store updates in a store: it is the job of something else above and this is why it is only able to process one update at a time.