jtibshirani commented on code in PR #11756: URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/11756#discussion_r965154356
########## lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/KnnVectorQuery.java: ########## @@ -175,9 +176,42 @@ private TopDocs approximateSearch(LeafReaderContext context, Bits acceptDocs, in } // We allow this to be overridden so that tests can check what search strategy is used - protected TopDocs exactSearch(LeafReaderContext context, DocIdSetIterator acceptDocs) + protected TopDocs exactSearch(LeafReaderContext context, DocIdSetIterator acceptIterator) throws IOException { - return context.reader().searchNearestVectorsExhaustively(field, target, k, acceptDocs); + FieldInfo fi = context.reader().getFieldInfos().fieldInfo(field); + if (fi == null || fi.getVectorDimension() == 0) { + // The field does not exist or does not index vectors + return NO_RESULTS; + } + + VectorScorer vectorScorer = VectorScorer.create(context, fi, target); + HitQueue queue = new HitQueue(k, true); + ScoreDoc topDoc = queue.top(); + int doc; + while ((doc = acceptIterator.nextDoc()) != DocIdSetIterator.NO_MORE_DOCS) { + boolean advanced = vectorScorer.advanceExact(doc); + assert advanced; + + float score = vectorScorer.score(); + if (score >= topDoc.score) { Review Comment: That seems right, I updated this and pushed a test covering the tie-breaking case. As a note, we don't guarantee we'll always return the lowest matching doc IDs (since approximate HNSW search can't do this efficiently). -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@lucene.apache.org