Vectorize clustering math

[praveenperera]

Ports the clustering part of #15 onto the current typed configuration API.

Changes:

• compute condensed AHC distances with bounded, disjoint matrix blocks
• account for ndarray matrix-multiplication threads in the default worker count
• vectorize the VBx M-step and E-step
• retain checked AhcConfig and VbxConfig types
• compare blocked AHC distances with the former scalar formula
• keep fixture comparisons for AHC labels and VBx outputs

This is the first of three focused replacements for #15. The fbank session pool and verified ONNX simplification will follow separately.

Verification:

• cargo test --lib
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features "cuda migraphx load-dynamic _metrics" -- -D warnings
• cargo fmt --all -- --check

Supersedes the clustering portion of #15.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance

  • Improved clustering speed through parallel distance calculations, with automatic thread allocation and support for configurable worker counts.
  • Optimized variational Bayesian computations using vectorized numerical operations.
  • Enabled threaded matrix multiplication for faster numerical processing.

• Reliability

  • Added safeguards for numerical precision during distance calculations.
  • Expanded test coverage for clustering behavior and parallel computation.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds parallel blocked Euclidean distances and bounded worker selection to AHC, adds clustering timing logs and validation tests, enables threaded matrix multiplication, and replaces scalar VBx loops with ndarray operations.

Changes

Clustering Performance Updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Threaded AHC distance pipeline Cargo.toml, src/clustering/ahc.rs	AHC computes condensed Euclidean distances with worker threads, chunked matrix products, bounded worker selection, and a close-distance fallback. cluster logs stage timings. ndarray enables threaded matrix multiplication.
AHC distance validation src/clustering/ahc.rs	Tests compare blocked distances with a scalar reference, preserve close-vector distances, verify zero-threshold separation, check identical results across worker counts, and bound default workers.
Vectorized VBx calculations src/clustering/vbx.rs	VBx M-step, E-step, and responsibility updates use ndarray mapping, matrix multiplication, row-wise calculations, and zipped updates.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant cluster
  participant condensed_euclidean
  participant pdist_worker_count
  participant condensed_euclidean_with_workers
  participant ndarray
  cluster->>condensed_euclidean: request condensed distances
  condensed_euclidean->>pdist_worker_count: determine worker count
  condensed_euclidean->>condensed_euclidean_with_workers: process row blocks
  condensed_euclidean_with_workers->>ndarray: compute chunked Gram products
  ndarray-->>condensed_euclidean_with_workers: return block products
  condensed_euclidean_with_workers-->>cluster: return distances
  cluster->>cluster: compute labels and emit timing log

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In constrained containers, AHC can create more compute threads than its configured CPU budget, increasing clustering latency. Configure one thread owner before merging.

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Greptile Summary

This PR vectorizes AHC distance computation and Gaussian VBx updates while retaining the checked configuration API.

• AHC computes Gram matrices in worker-limited blocks with disjoint condensed-output slices and adds stage timing.
• ndarray matrix-multiplication threading is enabled, and the default AHC worker calculation accounts for matrix workers.
• VBx replaces scalar accumulation with matrix products and combines likelihood normalization with responsibility updates.
• New AHC tests compare scalar distances and worker-count consistency. A non-blocking numerical edge case remains for very small merge thresholds.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR appears safe to merge with a non-blocking numerical correction recommended for AHC configurations using very small thresholds.

The blocked output layout and VBx equations preserve their intended behavior, but the new f32 distance formula can round a small nonzero distance to zero and change the corresponding threshold decision.

Files Needing Attention: src/clustering/ahc.rs

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
src/clustering/ahc.rs	Adds blocked parallel distances and regression tests; f32 cancellation can incorrectly merge nearly identical rows at small thresholds.
src/clustering/vbx.rs	Vectorizes sufficient statistics and likelihood calculations while preserving update equations and state ordering.
Cargo.toml	Enables ndarray matrix-multiplication threading without changing the ndarray version.
Cargo.lock	Adds transitive dependencies required by matrix-multiplication threading.

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