The Clustering Strikes Back: Building Cost-Effective and High-Performance ANNS at Scale with Helmsman

Yuchen Huang and Baiteng Ma, East China Normal University; Yiping Sun, Yang Shi, Xiao Chen, XiaoCheng Zhong, Zhiyong Wang, and Yao Hu, Xiaohongshu Inc; Erci Xu, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Chuliang Weng, East China Normal University