VecFlow: A High-Performance Vector Data Management System for Filtered-Search on GPUs

Summary: VecFlow is a GPU-based, label-centric vector-filtered search system boosting filter selectivity for ANNS. Architecture-aware optimization and batch support deliver throughput and recall, reaching 5M QPS at 90% recall with up to 135x CPU gains over DiskANN. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h5353b11e8b4827e1
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 5.4035152e-05
Overall Rank: 8,032 | 46.00%
DOI: 10.1145/3749189

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Authors

1. Jingyi Xi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Chenghao Mo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3. Ben Karsin (NVIDIA)
4. Artem Chirkin (NVIDIA)
5. Mingqin Li (Microsoft)
6. Minjia Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{xi_sigmod26,
        title = {{VecFlow: A High-Performance Vector Data Management System for Filtered-Search on GPUs}},
        author = {Xi, Jingyi and Mo, Chenghao and Karsin, Ben and Chirkin, Artem and Li, Mingqin and Zhang, Minjia},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3749189},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3749189},
        year = {2026}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,851	GAS: A Lightweight Framework for Filtered Search over Wide-table Vectors	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,873	GPU-Native Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with IVF-RaBitQ: Fast Index Build and Search	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,028	Advances of Query Processing in Vector Databases	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.0011405675
20	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00057568153
74	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	0.00037091678
341	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.00020539791
345	A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Comparison of Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2021	VLDB	0.00020445545
745	Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014288286
916	PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension	2020	SIGMOD	0.00013094482
1,225	ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data	2024	SIGMOD	0.00011444398
2,085	SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore	2024	VLDB	9.0709364e-05

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