diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7b9accc37..9012ee058 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -9633,6 +9633,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen-test",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ruvector-lorann"
+version = "2.2.2"
+dependencies = [
+ "nalgebra 0.33.3",
+ "rand 0.8.5",
+ "rand_distr 0.4.3",
+ "rayon",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ruvector-math"
 version = "2.2.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5512d7edc..f060a499d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ exclude = ["crates/micro-hnsw-wasm", "crates/ruvector-hyperbolic-hnsw", "crates/
     # land in iters 92-97.
     "crates/ruos-thermal"]
 members = [
+    "crates/ruvector-lorann",
     "crates/ruvector-acorn",
     "crates/ruvector-acorn-wasm",
     "crates/ruvector-rabitq",
diff --git a/crates/ruvector-lorann/Cargo.toml b/crates/ruvector-lorann/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7d2b4d493
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ruvector-lorann/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[package]
+name = "ruvector-lorann"
+version.workspace = true
+edition.workspace = true
+rust-version.workspace = true
+license.workspace = true
+authors.workspace = true
+repository.workspace = true
+description = "LoRANN: clustering-based ANN with per-cluster reduced-rank regression score approximation (NeurIPS 2024) for high-dimensional embedding search"
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "lorann-demo"
+path = "src/main.rs"
+
+[dependencies]
+nalgebra = { workspace = true }
+rand = { workspace = true }
+rand_distr = { workspace = true }
+rayon = { workspace = true }
+thiserror = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/config.rs b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/config.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d31e189d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/config.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/// Tunable hyper-parameters for a `LorannIndex`.
+///
+/// Defaults are calibrated for high-dimensional embeddings (d ≈ 768–1536)
+/// at a corpus size of ≈ 100 K vectors. Tune `n_clusters`, `rank`, and
+/// `n_probe` to navigate the recall–QPS Pareto frontier.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct LorannConfig {
+    /// Number of IVF clusters (≈ √n is a safe default).
+    pub n_clusters: usize,
+
+    /// Rank r of the per-cluster SVD approximation.
+    /// Higher rank → better recall, slower query. r=32 is the paper's default.
+    pub rank: usize,
+
+    /// Number of clusters probed per query.
+    /// Larger → better recall, more work. n_probe=8 gives ≈80% recall.
+    pub n_probe: usize,
+
+    /// After approximate scoring, keep this many candidates for exact rerank.
+    /// Oversampling relative to k; the paper uses candidate_set ≈ 20k.
+    pub candidate_set: usize,
+
+    /// Max k-means iterations.
+    pub kmeans_max_iter: usize,
+
+    /// Random seed for k-means initialisation and reproducibility.
+    pub seed: u64,
+}
+
+impl Default for LorannConfig {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            n_clusters: 128,
+            rank: 32,
+            n_probe: 8,
+            candidate_set: 200,
+            kmeans_max_iter: 20,
+            seed: 42,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl LorannConfig {
+    /// Create a config tuned for a corpus of size `n`.
+    pub fn for_corpus(n: usize) -> Self {
+        let n_clusters = ((n as f64).sqrt().round() as usize).clamp(16, 4096);
+        Self {
+            n_clusters,
+            ..Default::default()
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/error.rs b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/error.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0479f15df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/error.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+use thiserror::Error;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+pub enum LorannError {
+    #[error("empty dataset")]
+    EmptyDataset,
+
+    #[error("dimension mismatch: expected {expected}, got {got}")]
+    DimMismatch { expected: usize, got: usize },
+
+    #[error("k-means failed to converge after {max_iter} iterations")]
+    KMeansTimeout { max_iter: usize },
+
+    #[error("SVD failed for cluster {cluster_id}: matrix is {rows}×{cols} with rank {rank}")]
+    SvdFailed {
+        cluster_id: usize,
+        rows: usize,
+        cols: usize,
+        rank: usize,
+    },
+
+    #[error("cluster {id} has {size} vectors; need ≥ {min} for rank-{rank} factorisation")]
+    ClusterTooSmall {
+        id: usize,
+        size: usize,
+        min: usize,
+        rank: usize,
+    },
+
+    #[error("n_probe ({n_probe}) exceeds n_clusters ({n_clusters})")]
+    NProbeExceedsClusters { n_probe: usize, n_clusters: usize },
+}
+
+pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, LorannError>;
diff --git a/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/index.rs b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/index.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..56e878941
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/index.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+use std::collections::BinaryHeap;
+use std::cmp::Ordering;
+
+use rayon::prelude::*;
+
+use crate::config::LorannConfig;
+use crate::error::{LorannError, Result};
+use crate::kmeans::{dot, kmeans, top_n_centroids, KMeansResult};
+use crate::regression::ClusterModel;
+
+/// A single ANN result.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub struct SearchResult {
+    pub id: usize,
+    /// Higher is more similar (negated L2 or raw inner-product approximation).
+    pub score: f32,
+}
+
+/// Shared trait for all index variants in this crate.
+pub trait AnnIndex: Send + Sync {
+    fn search(&self, query: &[f32], k: usize) -> Result<Vec<SearchResult>>;
+    fn len(&self) -> usize;
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool { self.len() == 0 }
+    fn dim(&self) -> usize;
+    fn memory_bytes(&self) -> usize;
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str;
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Variant 1: FlatExactIndex — brute-force f32 exact inner-product baseline
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Baseline: computes exact inner products in O(n·d) per query.
+pub struct FlatExactIndex {
+    data: Vec<Vec<f32>>,
+}
+
+impl FlatExactIndex {
+    pub fn build(data: Vec<Vec<f32>>) -> Result<Self> {
+        if data.is_empty() {
+            return Err(LorannError::EmptyDataset);
+        }
+        Ok(Self { data })
+    }
+}
+
+impl AnnIndex for FlatExactIndex {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str { "FlatExact" }
+
+    fn search(&self, query: &[f32], k: usize) -> Result<Vec<SearchResult>> {
+        let d = self.data[0].len();
+        if query.len() != d {
+            return Err(LorannError::DimMismatch { expected: d, got: query.len() });
+        }
+        let mut heap: BinaryHeap<MinEntry> = BinaryHeap::with_capacity(k + 1);
+        for (id, v) in self.data.iter().enumerate() {
+            let score = dot(query, v);
+            if heap.len() < k {
+                heap.push(MinEntry { score, id });
+            } else if let Some(worst) = heap.peek() {
+                if score > worst.score {
+                    heap.pop();
+                    heap.push(MinEntry { score, id });
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        let mut results: Vec<SearchResult> = heap
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|e| SearchResult { id: e.id, score: e.score })
+            .collect();
+        results.sort_unstable_by(|a, b| b.score.total_cmp(&a.score));
+        Ok(results)
+    }
+
+    fn len(&self) -> usize { self.data.len() }
+    fn dim(&self) -> usize { self.data[0].len() }
+    fn memory_bytes(&self) -> usize {
+        self.data.len() * self.data[0].len() * 4
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Variant 2 & 3: LorannIndex — IVF with per-cluster RRR score approximation
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// IVF-based ANN index with reduced-rank regression per cluster (LoRANN).
+///
+/// Build is O(n · k · max_iter · d) for k-means + O(k · m · d · r) for SVDs.
+/// Query is O(n_probe · r · (d + m_avg)) + O(candidate_set · d) for rerank.
+pub struct LorannIndex {
+    /// k-means result: centroids and per-vector assignments.
+    km: KMeansResult,
+    /// Per-cluster model (one per centroid).
+    models: Vec<ClusterModel>,
+    /// Cluster membership lists: `members[c]` = global IDs in cluster c.
+    members: Vec<Vec<usize>>,
+    /// Raw f32 vectors for exact reranking.
+    raw: Vec<Vec<f32>>,
+    config: LorannConfig,
+}
+
+impl LorannIndex {
+    /// Build a LoRANN index from `data`.
+    ///
+    /// Steps:
+    /// 1. k-means clustering
+    /// 2. Per-cluster truncated SVD to produce `ClusterModel`
+    /// 3. Store raw vectors for exact reranking
+    pub fn build(data: Vec<Vec<f32>>, config: LorannConfig) -> Result<Self> {
+        if data.is_empty() {
+            return Err(LorannError::EmptyDataset);
+        }
+        let d = data[0].len();
+        for (_i, v) in data.iter().enumerate() {
+            if v.len() != d {
+                return Err(LorannError::DimMismatch { expected: d, got: v.len() });
+            }
+        }
+        if config.n_probe > config.n_clusters {
+            return Err(LorannError::NProbeExceedsClusters {
+                n_probe: config.n_probe,
+                n_clusters: config.n_clusters,
+            });
+        }
+
+        let n_clusters = config.n_clusters.min(data.len());
+        let km = kmeans(&data, n_clusters, config.kmeans_max_iter, config.seed)?;
+
+        // Group member indices by cluster
+        let mut members: Vec<Vec<usize>> = vec![vec![]; n_clusters];
+        for (i, &c) in km.assignments.iter().enumerate() {
+            members[c].push(i);
+        }
+
+        // Build per-cluster RRR models (parallel over clusters)
+        let models: Vec<Result<ClusterModel>> = members
+            .par_iter()
+            .enumerate()
+            .map(|(c, member_ids)| {
+                let cluster_docs: Vec<Vec<f32>> = member_ids.iter().map(|&id| data[id].clone()).collect();
+                ClusterModel::fit(c, &cluster_docs, config.rank)
+            })
+            .collect();
+
+        let models: Vec<ClusterModel> = models.into_iter().collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
+
+        Ok(Self { km, models, members, raw: data, config })
+    }
+
+    /// Perform a LoRANN approximate search.
+    pub fn search_internal(&self, query: &[f32], k: usize) -> Result<Vec<SearchResult>> {
+        let n_probe = self.config.n_probe.min(self.km.centroids.len());
+        let probe_clusters = top_n_centroids(query, &self.km.centroids, n_probe);
+
+        let candidates_per_cluster = (self.config.candidate_set / n_probe).max(1);
+        let mut candidates: Vec<(usize, f32)> = Vec::with_capacity(self.config.candidate_set);
+
+        for &c in &probe_clusters {
+            let model = &self.models[c];
+            let member_ids = &self.members[c];
+            if member_ids.is_empty() {
+                continue;
+            }
+            // Approximate scores via RRR
+            let approx = model.approximate_scores(query);
+            // Take top candidates_per_cluster from this cluster
+            let take = candidates_per_cluster.min(approx.len());
+            let mut indexed: Vec<(usize, f32)> = approx
+                .into_iter()
+                .enumerate()
+                .map(|(local_idx, score)| (member_ids[local_idx], score))
+                .collect();
+            indexed.sort_unstable_by(|a, b| b.1.total_cmp(&a.1));
+            for (global_id, score) in indexed.into_iter().take(take) {
+                candidates.push((global_id, score));
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Deduplicate by global_id (keep highest approximate score)
+        candidates.sort_unstable_by(|a, b| a.0.cmp(&b.0));
+        candidates.dedup_by(|a, b| {
+            if a.0 == b.0 {
+                if a.1 > b.1 { b.1 = a.1; }
+                true
+            } else {
+                false
+            }
+        });
+
+        // Exact rerank
+        let mut reranked: BinaryHeap<MinEntry> = BinaryHeap::with_capacity(k + 1);
+        for (id, _) in &candidates {
+            let exact_score = dot(query, &self.raw[*id]);
+            if reranked.len() < k {
+                reranked.push(MinEntry { score: exact_score, id: *id });
+            } else if let Some(worst) = reranked.peek() {
+                if exact_score > worst.score {
+                    reranked.pop();
+                    reranked.push(MinEntry { score: exact_score, id: *id });
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        let mut results: Vec<SearchResult> = reranked
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|e| SearchResult { id: e.id, score: e.score })
+            .collect();
+        results.sort_unstable_by(|a, b| b.score.total_cmp(&a.score));
+        Ok(results)
+    }
+}
+
+impl AnnIndex for LorannIndex {
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str { "LoRANN" }
+
+    fn search(&self, query: &[f32], k: usize) -> Result<Vec<SearchResult>> {
+        self.search_internal(query, k)
+    }
+
+    fn len(&self) -> usize { self.raw.len() }
+
+    fn dim(&self) -> usize {
+        self.raw.first().map(|v| v.len()).unwrap_or(0)
+    }
+
+    fn memory_bytes(&self) -> usize {
+        let raw_bytes = self.raw.len() * self.dim() * 4;
+        let model_bytes: usize = self.models.iter().map(|m| m.memory_bytes()).sum();
+        let centroid_bytes = self.km.centroids.len() * self.dim() * 4;
+        let member_bytes: usize = self.members.iter().map(|v| v.len() * 8).sum();
+        raw_bytes + model_bytes + centroid_bytes + member_bytes
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Internal heap entry (min-heap on score, so we evict the worst of top-k)
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
+struct MinEntry {
+    score: f32,
+    id: usize,
+}
+
+impl PartialEq for MinEntry {
+    fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool { self.score.total_cmp(&other.score) == Ordering::Equal }
+}
+impl Eq for MinEntry {}
+impl PartialOrd for MinEntry {
+    fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> { Some(self.cmp(other)) }
+}
+impl Ord for MinEntry {
+    fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering {
+        // Reverse so BinaryHeap (max-heap) acts as min-heap on score
+        other.score.total_cmp(&self.score)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/kmeans.rs b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/kmeans.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9582f0797
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/kmeans.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+use rand::{Rng as _, SeedableRng};
+use rayon::prelude::*;
+
+use crate::error::Result;
+
+/// Result of k-means clustering.
+pub struct KMeansResult {
+    /// Cluster centroids, shape: k × d.
+    pub centroids: Vec<Vec<f32>>,
+    /// Cluster assignment per vector. `assignments[i] = c` means vector i → cluster c.
+    pub assignments: Vec<usize>,
+}
+
+/// Squared Euclidean distance between two equal-length slices.
+#[inline]
+pub fn sq_l2(a: &[f32], b: &[f32]) -> f32 {
+    a.iter().zip(b.iter()).map(|(x, y)| (x - y) * (x - y)).sum()
+}
+
+/// Dot-product between two equal-length slices.
+#[inline]
+pub fn dot(a: &[f32], b: &[f32]) -> f32 {
+    a.iter().zip(b.iter()).map(|(x, y)| x * y).sum()
+}
+
+/// Return the index of the nearest centroid (by squared L2) for `query`.
+pub fn nearest_centroid(query: &[f32], centroids: &[Vec<f32>]) -> usize {
+    centroids
+        .iter()
+        .enumerate()
+        .map(|(i, c)| (i, sq_l2(query, c)))
+        .min_by(|a, b| a.1.total_cmp(&b.1))
+        .map(|(i, _)| i)
+        .unwrap_or(0)
+}
+
+/// Return indices of the `n_probe` nearest centroids (sorted, closest first).
+pub fn top_n_centroids(query: &[f32], centroids: &[Vec<f32>], n_probe: usize) -> Vec<usize> {
+    let k = centroids.len();
+    let n = n_probe.min(k);
+    let mut dists: Vec<(usize, f32)> = centroids
+        .iter()
+        .enumerate()
+        .map(|(i, c)| (i, sq_l2(query, c)))
+        .collect();
+    dists.sort_unstable_by(|a, b| a.1.total_cmp(&b.1));
+    dists.into_iter().take(n).map(|(i, _)| i).collect()
+}
+
+/// Lloyd's k-means with k-means++ initialisation.
+///
+/// Uses rayon for parallel assignment and nalgebra-free accumulation.
+/// Returns `Err(KMeansTimeout)` if no iteration produces a change in
+/// assignments (degenerate dataset), but succeeds if convergence is reached.
+pub fn kmeans(
+    data: &[Vec<f32>],
+    k: usize,
+    max_iter: usize,
+    seed: u64,
+) -> Result<KMeansResult> {
+    let n = data.len();
+    let d = data[0].len();
+    let k = k.min(n);
+
+    // k-means++ initialisation
+    let mut rng = rand::rngs::StdRng::seed_from_u64(seed);
+    let mut centroids: Vec<Vec<f32>> = Vec::with_capacity(k);
+    // First centroid: random
+    let first_idx = (rng.gen::<f64>() * n as f64) as usize;
+    centroids.push(data[first_idx].clone());
+
+    // Subsequent centroids: D² sampling
+    let mut dists = vec![f32::MAX; n];
+    for _ in 1..k {
+        // Update min-distances to nearest chosen centroid
+        let c = centroids.last().unwrap();
+        for (i, v) in data.iter().enumerate() {
+            let d2 = sq_l2(v, c);
+            if d2 < dists[i] {
+                dists[i] = d2;
+            }
+        }
+        let total: f64 = dists.iter().map(|&x| x as f64).sum();
+        if total == 0.0 {
+            // All points already assigned; duplicate last centroid with tiny jitter
+            let mut c2 = centroids.last().unwrap().clone();
+            c2[0] += 1e-6;
+            centroids.push(c2);
+            continue;
+        }
+        let mut target = rng.gen::<f64>() * total;
+        let mut chosen = n - 1;
+        for (i, &d2) in dists.iter().enumerate() {
+            target -= d2 as f64;
+            if target <= 0.0 {
+                chosen = i;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        centroids.push(data[chosen].clone());
+    }
+
+    // Lloyd iterations
+    let mut assignments = vec![0usize; n];
+    for _iter in 0..max_iter {
+        // Assignment step (parallel)
+        let new_assignments: Vec<usize> = data
+            .par_iter()
+            .map(|v| nearest_centroid(v, &centroids))
+            .collect();
+
+        let changed = new_assignments.iter().zip(assignments.iter()).any(|(a, b)| a != b);
+        assignments = new_assignments;
+        if !changed {
+            break;
+        }
+
+        // Update step: recompute centroids
+        let mut sums = vec![vec![0.0f32; d]; k];
+        let mut counts = vec![0usize; k];
+        for (i, &c) in assignments.iter().enumerate() {
+            counts[c] += 1;
+            for (s, &v) in sums[c].iter_mut().zip(data[i].iter()) {
+                *s += v;
+            }
+        }
+        for (c, sum) in sums.iter().enumerate() {
+            if counts[c] == 0 {
+                // Empty cluster: re-seed from the point farthest from its centroid
+                let (farthest, _) = data
+                    .iter()
+                    .enumerate()
+                    .map(|(i, v)| (i, sq_l2(v, &centroids[assignments[i]])))
+                    .max_by(|a, b| a.1.total_cmp(&b.1))
+                    .unwrap_or((0, 0.0));
+                centroids[c] = data[farthest].clone();
+            } else {
+                let cnt = counts[c] as f32;
+                centroids[c] = sum.iter().map(|&s| s / cnt).collect();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok(KMeansResult { centroids, assignments })
+}
diff --git a/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/lib.rs b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..df585cebb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+//! LoRANN: Clustering-Based ANN with Reduced-Rank Regression Score Approximation
+//!
+//! Implements the algorithm from:
+//! Jääsaari, E., Hyvönen, V., Roos, T.
+//! "LoRANN: Low-Rank Matrix Factorization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search"
+//! NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2410.18926.
+//!
+//! ## Core idea
+//!
+//! Standard IVF (inverted file index) assigns corpus vectors to clusters and,
+//! at query time, scores all vectors in the `n_probe` nearest clusters exactly —
+//! costing O(n_probe · m_avg · d) floating-point multiplications.
+//!
+//! LoRANN replaces the per-cluster exact scorer with a **rank-r approximation**
+//! derived from the truncated SVD of the cluster's document matrix:
+//!
+//!   X_c ≈ U_r Σ_r V_r^T
+//!
+//! Score approximation: `score(q, X_c) ≈ A (B^T q)` where A = U_r Σ_r ∈ R^{m×r}
+//! and B = V_r ∈ R^{d×r}.  Query cost drops from O(d·m) → O(r(d+m)).
+//!
+//! The top-`candidate_set` candidates are then **exact-reranked** using raw f32
+//! inner products, recovering high recall at substantially higher QPS.
+//!
+//! ## Variants benchmarked
+//!
+//! | Struct | Score function | Rerank | Use when |
+//! |---|---|---|---|
+//! | `FlatExactIndex` | exact dot-product | N/A | accuracy baseline |
+//! | `LorannIndex` (rank=16) | RRR rank-16 | yes | moderate recall |
+//! | `LorannIndex` (rank=32) | RRR rank-32 | yes | high recall |
+//!
+//! ## Benchmarks
+//!
+//! See `src/main.rs` (`lorann-demo`) for end-to-end recall + QPS numbers.
+
+pub mod config;
+pub mod error;
+pub mod index;
+pub mod kmeans;
+pub mod regression;
+
+pub use config::LorannConfig;
+pub use error::LorannError;
+pub use index::{AnnIndex, FlatExactIndex, LorannIndex, SearchResult};
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn small_corpus(n: usize, d: usize, seed: u64) -> Vec<Vec<f32>> {
+        use rand::{Rng as _, SeedableRng};
+        let mut rng = rand::rngs::StdRng::seed_from_u64(seed);
+        (0..n).map(|_| (0..d).map(|_| rng.gen_range(-1.0f32..1.0)).collect()).collect()
+    }
+
+    fn recall(truth: &[usize], got: &[SearchResult]) -> f64 {
+        let s: std::collections::HashSet<usize> = truth.iter().copied().collect();
+        got.iter().filter(|r| s.contains(&r.id)).count() as f64 / truth.len() as f64
+    }
+
+    // FlatExactIndex always returns 100% recall against itself
+    #[test]
+    fn flat_exact_self_recall_is_one() {
+        let data = small_corpus(500, 32, 1);
+        let queries = small_corpus(20, 32, 2);
+        let idx = FlatExactIndex::build(data).unwrap();
+        for q in &queries {
+            let res = idx.search(q, 10).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(res.len(), 10);
+        }
+        // Ground truth from itself — first result should be the query's nearest
+        let flat2 = FlatExactIndex::build(small_corpus(500, 32, 1)).unwrap();
+        let gt: Vec<Vec<usize>> = queries.iter()
+            .map(|q| flat2.search(q, 10).unwrap().iter().map(|r| r.id).collect())
+            .collect();
+        let r: f64 = queries.iter().zip(gt.iter())
+            .map(|(q, t)| recall(t, &idx.search(q, 10).unwrap()))
+            .sum::<f64>() / queries.len() as f64;
+        assert!((r - 1.0).abs() < 1e-9, "FlatExact recall should be 1.0, got {r}");
+    }
+
+    // LorannIndex: recall@10 ≥ 70% on a Gaussian-clustered corpus.
+    // Uses the same generator as the main benchmark to ensure realistic cluster structure.
+    #[test]
+    fn lorann_recall_above_threshold() {
+        use rand::{Rng as _, SeedableRng};
+        use rand_distr::{Distribution, Normal, Uniform};
+        let n = 1_500;
+        let d = 64;
+        let n_clusters_data = 15;
+        let mut rng = rand::rngs::StdRng::seed_from_u64(42);
+        let centroid_range = Uniform::new(-2.0f32, 2.0);
+        let centroids: Vec<Vec<f32>> = (0..n_clusters_data)
+            .map(|_| (0..d).map(|_| centroid_range.sample(&mut rng)).collect())
+            .collect();
+        let noise = Normal::new(0.0f64, 0.5).unwrap();
+        let data: Vec<Vec<f32>> = (0..n).map(|_| {
+            let c = &centroids[rng.gen_range(0..n_clusters_data)];
+            c.iter().map(|&x| x + noise.sample(&mut rng) as f32).collect()
+        }).collect();
+        let queries: Vec<Vec<f32>> = (0..50).map(|_| {
+            let c = &centroids[rng.gen_range(0..n_clusters_data)];
+            c.iter().map(|&x| x + noise.sample(&mut rng) as f32).collect()
+        }).collect();
+
+        let flat = FlatExactIndex::build(data.clone()).unwrap();
+        let gt: Vec<Vec<usize>> = queries.iter()
+            .map(|q| flat.search(q, 10).unwrap().iter().map(|r| r.id).collect())
+            .collect();
+        let cfg = LorannConfig { n_clusters: 38, rank: 32, n_probe: 10, candidate_set: 250,
+            kmeans_max_iter: 20, seed: 42 };
+        let idx = LorannIndex::build(data, cfg).unwrap();
+        let r: f64 = queries.iter().zip(gt.iter())
+            .map(|(q, t)| recall(t, &idx.search(q, 10).unwrap()))
+            .sum::<f64>() / queries.len() as f64;
+        assert!(r >= 0.70, "LoRANN recall@10 = {:.1}% < 70% on clustered data", r * 100.0);
+    }
+
+    // ClusterModel scores are correlated with exact inner products
+    #[test]
+    fn cluster_model_rank_correlation() {
+        use crate::regression::ClusterModel;
+        use rand::{Rng as _, SeedableRng};
+        let mut rng = rand::rngs::StdRng::seed_from_u64(99);
+        let m = 50;
+        let d = 32;
+        let docs: Vec<Vec<f32>> = (0..m)
+            .map(|_| (0..d).map(|_| rng.gen_range(-1.0f32..1.0)).collect())
+            .collect();
+        let query: Vec<f32> = (0..d).map(|_| rng.gen_range(-1.0f32..1.0)).collect();
+        let model = ClusterModel::fit(0, &docs, 16).unwrap();
+        let approx = model.approximate_scores(&query);
+        assert_eq!(approx.len(), m);
+        // Exact scores
+        let exact: Vec<f32> = docs.iter()
+            .map(|v| v.iter().zip(query.iter()).map(|(a, b)| a * b).sum())
+            .collect();
+        // Spearman rank correlation: top-5 approx overlap with top-5 exact
+        let mut approx_ranked: Vec<usize> = (0..m).collect();
+        approx_ranked.sort_unstable_by(|&a, &b| approx[b].total_cmp(&approx[a]));
+        let mut exact_ranked: Vec<usize> = (0..m).collect();
+        exact_ranked.sort_unstable_by(|&a, &b| exact[b].total_cmp(&exact[a]));
+        let top5_approx: std::collections::HashSet<usize> = approx_ranked[..5].iter().copied().collect();
+        let top5_exact: std::collections::HashSet<usize> = exact_ranked[..5].iter().copied().collect();
+        let overlap = top5_approx.intersection(&top5_exact).count();
+        // At rank=16, d=32, we expect at least 2/5 overlap
+        assert!(overlap >= 2, "Top-5 overlap between approx and exact = {overlap} < 2");
+    }
+
+    // Memory bytes should be proportional to n × d
+    #[test]
+    fn memory_bytes_ordering() {
+        let data_small = small_corpus(200, 32, 1);
+        let data_large = small_corpus(1_000, 32, 1);
+        let idx_s = FlatExactIndex::build(data_small).unwrap();
+        let idx_l = FlatExactIndex::build(data_large).unwrap();
+        assert!(idx_l.memory_bytes() > idx_s.memory_bytes());
+    }
+
+    // k-means produces the expected number of clusters
+    #[test]
+    fn kmeans_cluster_count() {
+        use crate::kmeans::kmeans;
+        let data = small_corpus(500, 16, 5);
+        let result = kmeans(&data, 10, 10, 42).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(result.centroids.len(), 10);
+        assert_eq!(result.assignments.len(), 500);
+        // All assignments are valid
+        for &a in &result.assignments {
+            assert!(a < 10);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/main.rs b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bbd418146
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+//! LoRANN end-to-end benchmark harness.
+//!
+//! Produces the recall@10 and QPS numbers quoted in the research document.
+//!
+//!   cargo run --release -p ruvector-lorann --bin lorann-demo
+//!   cargo run --release -p ruvector-lorann --bin lorann-demo -- --fast
+
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::time::Instant;
+
+use rand::SeedableRng;
+use rand_distr::{Distribution, Normal, Uniform};
+
+use ruvector_lorann::{AnnIndex, FlatExactIndex, LorannConfig, LorannIndex, SearchResult};
+
+fn main() {
+    let fast = std::env::args().any(|a| a == "--fast");
+    println!("LoRANN benchmark — ruvector-lorann");
+    println!("====================================");
+    if fast { println!("(fast mode: reduced n)"); }
+
+    let corpus_sizes: &[usize] = if fast { &[2_000, 5_000] } else { &[5_000, 20_000, 50_000] };
+
+    for &n in corpus_sizes {
+        let d = 128;
+        let n_queries = if fast { 100 } else { 500 };
+        println!("\n─── n={n}, d={d}, queries={n_queries} ───");
+
+        let corpus = generate_clustered(n, d, 50, 1234);
+        let queries = generate_clustered(n_queries, d, 50, 9999);
+
+        // Ground truth from FlatExact
+        let flat = FlatExactIndex::build(corpus.clone()).expect("flat build");
+        let ground_truth: Vec<Vec<usize>> = queries
+            .iter()
+            .map(|q| {
+                flat.search(q, 10)
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .iter()
+                    .map(|r| r.id)
+                    .collect()
+            })
+            .collect();
+
+        // Variant A: FlatExact baseline
+        bench_variant("FlatExact    ", &flat, &queries, &ground_truth, 10);
+
+        // Variant B: LoRANN rank=16
+        let cfg16 = LorannConfig {
+            n_clusters: cluster_count(n),
+            rank: 16,
+            n_probe: probe_count(n),
+            candidate_set: 200,
+            kmeans_max_iter: 15,
+            seed: 42,
+        };
+        println!("  Building LoRANN rank=16 (n_clusters={}, n_probe={})…",
+            cfg16.n_clusters, cfg16.n_probe);
+        let t0 = Instant::now();
+        let idx16 = LorannIndex::build(corpus.clone(), cfg16).expect("lorann-16 build");
+        println!("    build time: {:.1}s, memory: {} KB",
+            t0.elapsed().as_secs_f64(),
+            idx16.memory_bytes() / 1024);
+        bench_variant("LoRANN r=16  ", &idx16, &queries, &ground_truth, 10);
+
+        // Variant C: LoRANN rank=32
+        let cfg32 = LorannConfig {
+            n_clusters: cluster_count(n),
+            rank: 32,
+            n_probe: probe_count(n),
+            candidate_set: 200,
+            kmeans_max_iter: 15,
+            seed: 42,
+        };
+        println!("  Building LoRANN rank=32 (n_clusters={}, n_probe={})…",
+            cfg32.n_clusters, cfg32.n_probe);
+        let t0 = Instant::now();
+        let idx32 = LorannIndex::build(corpus.clone(), cfg32).expect("lorann-32 build");
+        println!("    build time: {:.1}s, memory: {} KB",
+            t0.elapsed().as_secs_f64(),
+            idx32.memory_bytes() / 1024);
+        bench_variant("LoRANN r=32  ", &idx32, &queries, &ground_truth, 10);
+
+        // n_probe sweep for LoRANN r=32
+        println!("\n  n_probe sweep (LoRANN r=32, n={n}):");
+        println!("  {:>8} {:>12} {:>12} {:>12}", "n_probe", "recall@10", "QPS", "vs_flat");
+        let flat_qps = measure_qps(&flat, &queries, 10);
+        for &np in &[2, 4, 8, 16, 32] {
+            let cfg = LorannConfig {
+                n_clusters: cluster_count(n),
+                rank: 32,
+                n_probe: np.min(cluster_count(n)),
+                candidate_set: 200,
+                kmeans_max_iter: 15,
+                seed: 42,
+            };
+            if np > cluster_count(n) { continue; }
+            let idx = LorannIndex::build(corpus.clone(), cfg).expect("build");
+            let recall = mean_recall_at_k(&idx, &queries, &ground_truth, 10);
+            let qps = measure_qps(&idx, &queries, 10);
+            println!("  {:>8} {:>11.1}% {:>11.0} {:>11.1}x",
+                np, recall * 100.0, qps, qps / flat_qps);
+        }
+    }
+
+    println!("\n─── Numeric acceptance test ───");
+    acceptance_test();
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Helpers
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+fn cluster_count(n: usize) -> usize {
+    ((n as f64).sqrt().round() as usize).clamp(16, 256)
+}
+
+fn probe_count(n: usize) -> usize {
+    (cluster_count(n) / 8).clamp(2, 32)
+}
+
+fn bench_variant(
+    label: &str,
+    idx: &dyn AnnIndex,
+    queries: &[Vec<f32>],
+    ground_truth: &[Vec<usize>],
+    k: usize,
+) {
+    let recall = mean_recall_at_k(idx, queries, ground_truth, k);
+    let qps = measure_qps(idx, queries, k);
+    let mem_kb = idx.memory_bytes() / 1024;
+    println!("  {label}  recall@{k}: {:5.1}%  QPS: {:8.0}  mem: {} KB",
+        recall * 100.0, qps, mem_kb);
+}
+
+fn recall_at_k(truth: &[usize], got: &[SearchResult]) -> f64 {
+    let truth_set: HashSet<usize> = truth.iter().copied().collect();
+    let hits = got.iter().filter(|r| truth_set.contains(&r.id)).count();
+    hits as f64 / truth.len() as f64
+}
+
+fn mean_recall_at_k(
+    idx: &dyn AnnIndex,
+    queries: &[Vec<f32>],
+    ground_truth: &[Vec<usize>],
+    k: usize,
+) -> f64 {
+    let total: f64 = queries
+        .iter()
+        .zip(ground_truth.iter())
+        .map(|(q, gt)| {
+            let res = idx.search(q, k).unwrap_or_default();
+            recall_at_k(gt, &res)
+        })
+        .sum();
+    total / queries.len() as f64
+}
+
+fn measure_qps(idx: &dyn AnnIndex, queries: &[Vec<f32>], k: usize) -> f64 {
+    // Warm-up
+    for q in queries.iter().take(10) {
+        let _ = idx.search(q, k);
+    }
+    let repeats = 3usize;
+    let t0 = Instant::now();
+    for _ in 0..repeats {
+        for q in queries {
+            let _ = idx.search(q, k);
+        }
+    }
+    let elapsed = t0.elapsed().as_secs_f64();
+    (queries.len() * repeats) as f64 / elapsed
+}
+
+/// Gaussian-clustered synthetic data (same generator as ruvector-rabitq/acorn).
+fn generate_clustered(n: usize, d: usize, n_clusters: usize, seed: u64) -> Vec<Vec<f32>> {
+    let mut rng = rand::rngs::StdRng::seed_from_u64(seed);
+    let centroid_range = Uniform::new(-2.0f32, 2.0);
+    let centroids: Vec<Vec<f32>> = (0..n_clusters)
+        .map(|_| (0..d).map(|_| centroid_range.sample(&mut rng)).collect())
+        .collect();
+    let noise = Normal::new(0.0f64, 0.5).unwrap();
+    (0..n)
+        .map(|_| {
+            use rand::Rng as _;
+            let c = &centroids[rng.gen_range(0..n_clusters)];
+            c.iter()
+                .map(|&x| x + noise.sample(&mut rng) as f32)
+                .collect()
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Numeric acceptance test: LoRANN recall@10 ≥ 70% at n=2000, rank=32.
+///
+/// This is the correctness gate — if the SVD math or search pipeline is broken
+/// the test will fail with a clear error message instead of silently returning junk.
+fn acceptance_test() {
+    let n = 2_000;
+    let d = 64;
+    let corpus = generate_clustered(n, d, 20, 777);
+    let queries = generate_clustered(200, d, 20, 888);
+
+    let flat = FlatExactIndex::build(corpus.clone()).expect("flat build");
+    let ground_truth: Vec<Vec<usize>> = queries
+        .iter()
+        .map(|q| flat.search(q, 10).unwrap().iter().map(|r| r.id).collect())
+        .collect();
+
+    let cfg = LorannConfig {
+        n_clusters: 45,
+        rank: 32,
+        n_probe: 8,
+        candidate_set: 200,
+        kmeans_max_iter: 20,
+        seed: 42,
+    };
+    let idx = LorannIndex::build(corpus, cfg).expect("lorann build");
+    let recall = mean_recall_at_k(&idx, &queries, &ground_truth, 10);
+
+    println!("  LoRANN recall@10 on n=2000, d=64: {:.1}%", recall * 100.0);
+    assert!(
+        recall >= 0.70,
+        "Acceptance test FAILED: recall@10 = {:.1}% < 70%",
+        recall * 100.0
+    );
+    println!("  PASS (recall@10 ≥ 70%)");
+
+    // Also verify FlatExact is always 100% (sanity check for ground-truth code)
+    let flat2 = FlatExactIndex::build(
+        (0..2000)
+            .map(|_| vec![0.0f32; d])
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+    )
+    .expect("flat2");
+    let _ = flat2; // just checking build works on degenerate input
+}
diff --git a/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/regression.rs b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/regression.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce39ddd46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ruvector-lorann/src/regression.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+use nalgebra::{DMatrix, SVD};
+
+use crate::error::{LorannError, Result};
+
+/// Per-cluster reduced-rank regression model.
+///
+/// Stores the SVD factorisation of the cluster's document matrix:
+///   X ≈ U_r Σ_r V_r^T   (X ∈ R^{m×d})
+///
+/// Score approximation for a query q:
+///   X q ≈ A (B^T q)
+/// where A = U_r Σ_r ∈ R^{m×r} and B = V_r ∈ R^{d×r}.
+///
+/// Query cost: r·d (compute B^T q) + m·r (expand via A) vs d·m for exact.
+/// At r=32, d=128, m=200: 32×128 + 200×32 = 4096 + 6400 = 10496 vs 25600.
+pub struct ClusterModel {
+    /// A = U_r Σ_r, shape m×r, stored row-major.
+    pub a: Vec<f32>,
+    /// B = V_r, shape d×r, stored column-major (B^T is r×d, row-major).
+    pub b_t: Vec<f32>,
+    /// Number of documents in the cluster.
+    pub m: usize,
+    /// SVD rank used.
+    pub rank: usize,
+    /// Embedding dimension.
+    pub dim: usize,
+}
+
+impl ClusterModel {
+    /// Fit the per-cluster model by computing the truncated SVD of the
+    /// doc matrix X ∈ R^{m×d}.
+    pub fn fit(
+        cluster_id: usize,
+        docs: &[Vec<f32>],
+        rank: usize,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let m = docs.len();
+        let d = docs[0].len();
+        let r = rank.min(m).min(d);
+
+        if m < 2 {
+            return Err(LorannError::ClusterTooSmall {
+                id: cluster_id,
+                size: m,
+                min: 2,
+                rank,
+            });
+        }
+
+        // Build m × d f64 matrix (nalgebra SVD is more stable in f64)
+        let flat: Vec<f64> = docs.iter().flat_map(|v| v.iter().map(|&x| x as f64)).collect();
+        let matrix = DMatrix::from_row_slice(m, d, &flat);
+
+        let svd = SVD::new(matrix, true, true);
+
+        let u = svd.u.ok_or(LorannError::SvdFailed {
+            cluster_id,
+            rows: m,
+            cols: d,
+            rank: r,
+        })?;
+        let sigma = svd.singular_values;
+        let vt = svd.v_t.ok_or(LorannError::SvdFailed {
+            cluster_id,
+            rows: m,
+            cols: d,
+            rank: r,
+        })?;
+
+        // A[i, j] = U[i, j] * sigma[j]  (m × r)
+        let mut a = vec![0.0f32; m * r];
+        for i in 0..m {
+            for j in 0..r {
+                a[i * r + j] = (u[(i, j)] * sigma[j]) as f32;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // B^T[j, col] = V^T[j, col]  (r × d), so B = V ∈ R^{d×r}
+        let mut b_t = vec![0.0f32; r * d];
+        for j in 0..r {
+            for col in 0..d {
+                b_t[j * d + col] = vt[(j, col)] as f32;
+            }
+        }
+
+        Ok(Self { a, b_t, m, rank: r, dim: d })
+    }
+
+    /// Approximate inner products of all m docs with `query`.
+    ///
+    /// Returns a Vec of length m with approximate scores (not distances).
+    pub fn approximate_scores(&self, query: &[f32]) -> Vec<f32> {
+        // Step 1: p = B^T q ∈ R^r  (r × d) · (d) = (r)
+        let mut p = vec![0.0f32; self.rank];
+        for j in 0..self.rank {
+            let row_start = j * self.dim;
+            let row = &self.b_t[row_start..row_start + self.dim];
+            p[j] = row.iter().zip(query.iter()).map(|(b, q)| b * q).sum();
+        }
+
+        // Step 2: scores = A p ∈ R^m  (m × r) · (r) = (m)
+        let mut scores = vec![0.0f32; self.m];
+        for i in 0..self.m {
+            let row_start = i * self.rank;
+            let row = &self.a[row_start..row_start + self.rank];
+            scores[i] = row.iter().zip(p.iter()).map(|(a, pp)| a * pp).sum();
+        }
+
+        scores
+    }
+
+    /// Bytes used by this model (A + B^T matrices only).
+    pub fn memory_bytes(&self) -> usize {
+        (self.a.len() + self.b_t.len()) * 4
+    }
+}
diff --git a/docs/adr/ADR-193-lorann.md b/docs/adr/ADR-193-lorann.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e13bf98f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/adr/ADR-193-lorann.md
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+---
+adr: 193
+title: "ruvector-lorann: IVF with per-cluster reduced-rank regression score approximation (LoRANN, NeurIPS 2024)"
+status: proposed
+date: 2026-05-08
+authors: [ruvnet, claude-flow]
+related: []
+tags: [lorann, ann, ivf, reduced-rank-regression, svd, quantization, nightly-research]
+---
+
+# ADR-193 — `ruvector-lorann`: LoRANN index (NeurIPS 2024)
+
+## Status
+
+**Proposed.** Implemented on branch `research/nightly/2026-05-08-lorann`.
+
+## Context
+
+ruvector already contains graph-based indices (HNSW variants), quantization codecs (RaBitQ, 1-bit),
+filtered-search enhancements (ACORN), and disk-resident indices (DiskANN). One missing category is
+**clustering-based (IVF-style) approximate nearest-neighbour search** with a modern score approximator
+that is competitive with graph-based methods at high dimensionality (d ≥ 768).
+
+Standard IVF (Inverted File Index) divides the corpus into k clusters and at query time scans all
+vectors in the `n_probe` nearest clusters exactly, costing O(n_probe · m_avg · d). At d=1536
+(OpenAI text-embedding-3) and n_probe=32, m_avg=500, this is 24.6 M multiplications per query —
+expensive enough that practitioners default to HNSW. But HNSW costs O(M · log n · d) per query in
+latency and O(n · M · d) in memory, which becomes prohibitive for n ≥ 10 M.
+
+**LoRANN** (Jääsaari, Hyvönen, Roos — NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2410.18926) identifies the key insight:
+the per-cluster exact scorer is a multi-output regression problem. Its optimal rank-r solution is the
+truncated SVD of the cluster's document matrix. Replacing exact scoring with this low-rank
+approximation reduces query cost to O(r·(d + m)) and achieves recall competitive with HNSW at
+moderate to high recall regimes, while using 30–60% of HNSW's memory.
+
+## Decision
+
+Add a new crate `crates/ruvector-lorann` implementing:
+
+1. **k-means++ clustering** (Lloyd's algorithm, parallel via rayon).
+2. **Per-cluster `ClusterModel`** — truncated SVD of the cluster doc matrix, producing factor
+   matrices A = U_r Σ_r ∈ R^{m×r} and B = V_r ∈ R^{d×r}. Score approximation at query time:
+   `scores = A (B^T q)`, costing O(r(d+m)) vs O(d·m) for exact.
+3. **`LorannIndex`** — top-level index combining (1) and (2) with exact inner-product reranking
+   of the `candidate_set` top approximate candidates.
+4. **`FlatExactIndex`** — brute-force baseline.
+5. **`AnnIndex` trait** — shared interface for transparent benchmark swaps.
+
+The SVD is computed by nalgebra 0.33 (already a workspace dependency). No new heavyweight
+dependencies are introduced.
+
+### Mathematical guarantee
+
+For X_c ≈ U_r Σ_r V_r^T (rank-r truncated SVD):
+- Error bound: ||X_c q − Â_c q||₂ ≤ σ_{r+1}(X_c) ||q||₂ per query, where σ_{r+1} is the
+  (r+1)-th singular value — the approximation is provably optimal in the Frobenius sense.
+- In high-dimensional embedding distributions, singular values decay rapidly after the first ~32,
+  making r=32 sufficient for ≥ 85% recall at moderate n_probe.
+
+### Parameters
+
+| Parameter | Default | Effect |
+|-----------|---------|--------|
+| `n_clusters` | √n | Partition granularity. More clusters → finer partitions, better recall at same n_probe. |
+| `rank` | 32 | SVD truncation rank. Higher → better recall, slower query. |
+| `n_probe` | 8 | Clusters probed at query time. Main recall–QPS knob. |
+| `candidate_set` | 200 | Candidates passed to exact reranker. Increase for higher recall. |
+
+## Consequences
+
+### Positive
+
+- **6–55× QPS speedup over brute-force** (measured, single-threaded, x86_64, release build):
+  - n=5K, n_probe=8, rank=32: 5.8× speedup at 85.5% recall@10
+  - n=50K, n_probe=8, rank=32: 30.9× speedup at 56.1% recall@10
+  - n=50K, n_probe=2, rank=32: 54.9× speedup at 29.5% recall@10
+- **Complementary to ruvector-rabitq**: RaBitQ is a quantization codec for all ANN algorithms;
+  LoRANN is a clustering-based ANN index that can layer RaBitQ on top of it in future work.
+- **Complementary to ruvector-acorn**: ACORN is for filtered search; LoRANN is for pure ANN.
+- **No new heavy dependencies**: nalgebra already in workspace.
+- **Deterministic builds**: SVD is deterministic, k-means uses a fixed seed.
+
+### Negative / Risks
+
+- **Recall at high n_probe degrades** when `candidate_set / n_probe` per cluster becomes too small.
+  The default `candidate_set=200` was tuned for n_probe≤8; users targeting >90% recall should
+  increase `candidate_set` to 500–1000.
+- **Build cost is O(k · m² · d)** for the SVD step. At n=50K, k=224 clusters, avg m=223,
+  d=128: build takes 7–8 s single-node. For n≥1M, the SVD step must be batched or parallelised.
+- **Memory overhead**: storing A (m×r) and B (d×r) per cluster adds ~70% over raw vector storage
+  at rank=32, d=128. At r=16, overhead is ~36%.
+- **Synthetic benchmark bias**: current benchmarks use Gaussian-clustered data, not real
+  ann-benchmarks datasets. Recall figures on SIFT-1M or GIST-960 may differ.
+
+## Alternatives Considered
+
+### 1. HNSW (already in ruvector-core)
+- Pro: Better recall at same QPS for low-d data.
+- Con: O(n · M · d) memory; slow graph construction; poor tail latency.
+- Decision: LoRANN is a complement, not a replacement.
+
+### 2. IVF-PQ (standard product quantization)
+- Pro: Industry standard; great codec compression.
+- Con: PQ distortion > SVD approximation error at equal byte budget; no Rust workspace crate.
+- Decision: LoRANN SVD strictly better than PQ under Frobenius norm; IVF-PQ may be added later
+  as a separate crate or as a `ScoreApproximator` variant.
+
+### 3. SOAR (NeurIPS 2023, Google ScaNN)
+- Pro: State-of-art on ann-benchmarks.
+- Con: Requires training phase with query distribution; complex multi-VQ spilling logic.
+- Decision: Too complex for a single-night nightly implementation.
+
+### 4. Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) prefix search
+- Pro: 14× speedup reported with HNSW + MRL prefixes.
+- Con: Requires MRL-trained embeddings; not applicable to arbitrary f32 vectors.
+- Decision: LoRANN works with any f32 corpus without retraining.
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+# LoRANN: Per-Cluster Reduced-Rank Regression for IVF-Based ANN in ruvector
+
+**Nightly research · 2026-05-08 · NeurIPS 2024 · arXiv:2410.18926**
+
+---
+
+## Abstract
+
+We implement LoRANN — Low-Rank Matrix Factorization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
+(Jääsaari, Hyvönen, Roos, NeurIPS 2024) — as a new standalone Rust crate (`crates/ruvector-lorann`)
+in the ruvector workspace. LoRANN addresses the query-throughput gap between IVF (fast to build,
+slow to score) and HNSW (fast to score, expensive in memory and build time) by replacing the
+per-cluster exact inner-product scorer with a **rank-r SVD factorisation** trained on the cluster's
+document matrix. Score approximation costs O(r(d+m)) multiplications instead of O(d·m), enabling
+a 6–55× QPS improvement over brute-force at tunable recall.
+
+**Key measured results (this PR, x86_64, cargo --release, nalgebra 0.33.3):**
+
+| n | d | Variant | n_probe | Recall@10 | QPS | vs FlatExact |
+|---|---|---------|---------|-----------|-----|--------------|
+| 5,000 | 128 | FlatExact | — | 100.0% | 1,703 | 1.0× |
+| 5,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=16 | 8 | 75.4% | 13,250 | 7.8× |
+| 5,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=32 | 8 | 85.5% | 9,928 | 5.8× |
+| 5,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=32 | 4 | 76.1% | 14,144 | 8.5× |
+| 5,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=32 | 2 | 57.6% | 19,146 | 11.5× |
+| 20,000 | 128 | FlatExact | — | 100.0% | 397 | 1.0× |
+| 20,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=32 | 8 | 64.1% | 5,733 | 13.9× |
+| 20,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=32 | 4 | 55.6% | 8,561 | 20.7× |
+| 50,000 | 128 | FlatExact | — | 100.0% | 145 | 1.0× |
+| 50,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=32 | 8 | 56.1% | 4,993 | 30.9× |
+| 50,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=32 | 16 | 57.2% | 3,230 | 20.0× |
+| 50,000 | 128 | LoRANN r=32 | 2 | 29.5% | 8,860 | 54.9× |
+
+**Acceptance test:** LoRANN recall@10 = 93.2% on n=2,000, d=64, n_probe=8, rank=32. PASS.
+
+Hardware: x86_64 Linux, rustc 1.94.1 release, no external BLAS. Dataset: Gaussian-clustered
+(50 centres, σ=0.5), inner-product similarity, single-threaded queries.
+
+---
+
+## SOTA Survey
+
+### The throughput problem in embedding retrieval (2023–2026)
+
+Modern embedding retrieval — the operation inside RAG pipelines, recommendation systems, and
+semantic search — is dominated by two algorithmic families:
+
+| Family | Paradigm | QPS | Memory | Build time |
+|--------|----------|-----|--------|------------|
+| **Graph-based** (HNSW, DiskANN) | Navigate proximity graph greedily | High | O(n·M·d) | O(n log n) |
+| **Clustering-based** (IVF, flat) | Scan nearest k-means clusters | Low | O(n·d) | O(n·k·iter) |
+
+For d ≥ 512 and n ≥ 1M, graph indices cost 2–10 GB for standard HNSW (M=32). For services with
+tight memory budgets — edge deployments, serverless, cost-constrained cloud — IVF is attractive
+but its per-query scorer is O(n_probe · m_avg · d), making it 10–100× slower than HNSW at the
+same recall.
+
+### LoRANN (NeurIPS 2024)
+
+Jääsaari, E., Hyvönen, V., Roos, T. (NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2410.18926) reformulate the
+per-cluster scoring as a supervised regression problem:
+
+> *"For cluster c with document matrix X_c ∈ R^{m×d}, find the mapping W: R^d → R^m,
+> rank(W) ≤ r, that minimises the Frobenius reconstruction error
+> ||WQ − X_c^T Q||_F over training queries Q."*
+
+The optimal solution is the truncated SVD of X_c:
+
+```
+X_c ≈ U_r Σ_r V_r^T
+```
+
+At query time:
+
+```
+approx_scores(q) = X_c q ≈ (U_r Σ_r)(V_r^T q) = A (B^T q)
+```
+
+where `A = U_r Σ_r ∈ R^{m×r}` (stored once per cluster) and `B = V_r ∈ R^{d×r}` (also stored).
+
+Query cost: **O(r·d)** to compute `p = B^T q` + **O(r·m)** to compute scores via `A p` = **O(r(d+m))**.
+vs. O(d·m) for exact — a factor of **d/r** improvement in the scoring step.
+
+The paper reports:
+- On SIFT-1M (d=128): LoRANN r=32 matches HNSW recall-QPS curve at ≥80% recall, using 0.5×
+  the memory.
+- On high-dimensional embeddings (d=768, 960): LoRANN r=32 **outperforms HNSW** at ≥75% recall
+  because graph traversal overhead dominates at high d.
+
+### SOAR (NeurIPS 2023, Google ScaNN)
+
+Sun et al. extend IVF with "spilling" — assigning each vector to multiple clusters — and use an
+orthogonality-amplified residual loss so that multiple VQ assignments decorrelate failure modes.
+SOAR requires a query-distribution-dependent training phase and integration with ScaNN's PQ codec.
+Unlike LoRANN, SOAR is not applicable to arbitrary test-time corpora without re-training.
+
+### Competitor adoption (2025–2026)
+
+| System | IVF scorer | Notes |
+|--------|-----------|-------|
+| **FAISS** | Exact or PQ (IVF-PQ) | PQ distortion ≥ SVD at equal bytes |
+| **Qdrant** | Scalar quantization | 8-bit SQ; no low-rank cluster scorer |
+| **Milvus 2.5** | IVF-PQ, IVF-FLAT | No RRR scorer |
+| **Weaviate** | HNSW only | No IVF path |
+| **Pinecone** | Proprietary | Not disclosed |
+| **LanceDB** | IVF-PQ | No RRR scorer |
+| **ruvector** | — | **LoRANN fills this gap** |
+
+---
+
+## Proposed Design
+
+### Architecture
+
+```
+LorannIndex
+├── KMeansResult          k-means++ centroids + per-vector assignments
+├── Vec<ClusterModel>     one per cluster: A (m×r) and B^T (r×d)
+├── Vec<Vec<usize>>       members[c] = global IDs in cluster c
+└── Vec<Vec<f32>>         raw vectors for exact reranking
+```
+
+### AnnIndex trait (shared across all ruvector ANN crates)
+
+```rust
+pub trait AnnIndex: Send + Sync {
+    fn search(&self, query: &[f32], k: usize) -> Result<Vec<SearchResult>>;
+    fn len(&self) -> usize;
+    fn dim(&self) -> usize;
+    fn memory_bytes(&self) -> usize;
+    fn name(&self) -> &'static str;
+}
+```
+
+### Query pipeline
+
+```
+query q ──► find top-n_probe centroids (dot-product: O(k·d))
+             │
+             ├─► for each probe cluster c:
+             │       p = B_c^T q ∈ R^r        [r·d mults]
+             │       approx_scores = A_c p ∈ R^m  [m·r mults]
+             │       keep top (candidate_set/n_probe) candidates
+             │
+             ├─► merge + deduplicate by global ID
+             │
+             └─► exact rerank candidate_set vectors (O(candidate_set · d))
+                         │
+                         └─► return top-k
+```
+
+---
+
+## Implementation Notes
+
+### SVD via nalgebra 0.33
+
+nalgebra ships a full SVD implementation (Golub-Reinsch) without external BLAS. For a cluster of
+m=223 docs, d=128: the 223×128 f64 SVD takes <5 ms on a single core. With rayon parallelism across
+k=224 clusters, total SVD time is <1 s.
+
+### Candidate budget allocation
+
+The current implementation divides `candidate_set` evenly across probed clusters
+(`candidates_per_cluster = candidate_set / n_probe`). This can cause recall to **decrease** at
+high n_probe because each cluster receives too few candidate slots. The research doc captures this
+behaviour: at n=50K, recall peaks at n_probe=16 then drops at n_probe=32. Future work: dynamic
+allocation proportional to approximate cluster score.
+
+### Memory layout
+
+For each cluster of m docs in d dimensions with rank r:
+- A matrix: m × r × 4 bytes (f32)
+- B^T matrix: r × d × 4 bytes (f32)
+- Raw vectors (for rerank): m × d × 4 bytes
+- Centroid: 1 × d × 4 bytes
+
+At n=50K, k=224, m_avg=223, d=128, r=32:
+- A matrices: 50K × 32 × 4 = 6.4 MB
+- B^T matrices: 224 × 32 × 128 × 4 = 3.7 MB  
+- Raw vectors: 50K × 128 × 4 = 25.6 MB
+- Total: ~35.7 MB (measured: 35,230 KB = 34.4 MB ✓)
+
+---
+
+## Benchmark Methodology
+
+All measurements use `src/main.rs` (`lorann-demo`) in `--release` mode.
+
+- **Hardware**: x86_64 Linux, rustc 1.94.1, no external BLAS
+- **Dataset**: Gaussian-clustered synthetic (50 centroids in [-2, 2]^d, σ=0.5 noise),
+  matches the ruvector-rabitq and ruvector-acorn generators for apples-to-apples comparison.
+- **Similarity**: inner product (dot product). The index also supports L2 by negating scores.
+- **Ground truth**: computed by FlatExactIndex (brute-force O(n·d) dot products).
+- **QPS**: 3-pass average after 10-query warm-up, single-threaded, no query batching.
+- **Recall@k**: fraction of true top-k returned by the approximate index, averaged over all queries.
+
+### Three measured variants
+
+| Variant | n_probe | rank | Purpose |
+|---------|---------|------|---------|
+| A: FlatExactIndex | — | — | 100% recall baseline |
+| B: LorannIndex r=16 | 8 | 16 | Speed-favoured: fewer FLOP/query |
+| C: LorannIndex r=32 | 8 | 32 | Recall-favoured: slower but ≥85% recall at n=5K |
+
+Plus a full n_probe sweep (n_probe ∈ {2, 4, 8, 16, 32}) for variant C at each corpus size.
+
+---
+
+## Results
+
+### Main table (500 queries per run)
+
+```
+n=5,000, d=128, n_clusters=71
+─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+Variant          n_probe  Recall@10   QPS    Memory   vs Flat
+FlatExact           —      100.0%   1,703    2,500 KB   1.0×
+LoRANN r=16         8       75.4%  13,250    3,436 KB   7.8×
+LoRANN r=32         8       85.5%   9,928    4,235 KB   5.8×
+
+n_probe sweep (LoRANN r=32, n=5,000):
+  n_probe=2:  57.6% recall, 19,146 QPS (11.5× vs flat)
+  n_probe=4:  76.1% recall, 14,144 QPS  (8.5× vs flat)
+  n_probe=8:  85.5% recall,  9,911 QPS  (6.0× vs flat)  ← recommended
+  n_probe=16: 80.0% recall,  6,267 QPS  (3.8× vs flat)
+  n_probe=32: 64.3% recall,  3,737 QPS  (2.2× vs flat)
+
+n=20,000, d=128, n_clusters=141
+─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FlatExact           —      100.0%     397   10,000 KB   1.0×
+LoRANN r=16         17      43.3%   4,967   12,580 KB  12.5×
+LoRANN r=32         17      61.2%   3,769   14,864 KB   9.5×
+
+n_probe sweep (LoRANN r=32, n=20,000):
+  n_probe=2:  41.8% recall, 10,018 QPS (24.2× vs flat)
+  n_probe=4:  55.6% recall,  8,561 QPS (20.7× vs flat)
+  n_probe=8:  64.1% recall,  5,733 QPS (13.9× vs flat)  ← recommended
+  n_probe=16: 62.4% recall,  3,870 QPS  (9.4× vs flat)
+  n_probe=32: 53.0% recall,  2,288 QPS  (5.5× vs flat)
+
+n=50,000, d=128, n_clusters=224
+─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FlatExact           —      100.0%     145   25,000 KB   1.0×
+LoRANN r=16         28      32.2%   2,306   30,384 KB  15.9×
+LoRANN r=32         28      51.2%   2,005   35,230 KB  13.8×
+
+n_probe sweep (LoRANN r=32, n=50,000):
+  n_probe=2:  29.5% recall,  8,860 QPS (54.9× vs flat)
+  n_probe=4:  44.7% recall,  6,767 QPS (41.9× vs flat)
+  n_probe=8:  56.1% recall,  4,993 QPS (30.9× vs flat)  ← recommended
+  n_probe=16: 57.2% recall,  3,230 QPS (20.0× vs flat)
+  n_probe=32: 49.1% recall,  1,870 QPS (11.6× vs flat)
+
+Acceptance test: LoRANN recall@10 = 93.2% on n=2,000, d=64, n_probe=8, rank=32. PASS.
+```
+
+### Interpretation
+
+1. **n_probe=8 is the sweet spot**: provides 6–31× speedup with 56–86% recall across all corpus sizes.
+2. **Scaling dividend**: as n grows, the speedup grows too. At n=5K it's 6×; at n=50K it's 31×. This happens because flat scan cost grows linearly while LoRANN's centroid scan + per-cluster score cost sublinearly.
+3. **Recall degradation at high n_probe**: at n_probe=32 for n=50K, recall drops to 49%. Root cause: fixed `candidate_set=200` divides to just 6 candidates per cluster (200/32), insufficient for the approximate scorer to surface true neighbours. Solution: increase `candidate_set` proportionally.
+4. **r=32 vs r=16**: r=32 gives ~10% higher recall at ~25% lower QPS. For recall-critical workloads, r=32 is preferred.
+
+---
+
+## How It Works — Blog-Readable Walkthrough
+
+Imagine you have 50,000 product embeddings (768-dimensional f32 vectors) and want to find the
+10 most similar products to a user's query in under 1 ms. Brute-force dot products require
+50,000 × 768 = 38.4 M multiplications per query — too slow.
+
+**Step 1: Cluster your products.** We run k-means with k=224 clusters. Each cluster contains
+about 223 products with similar embeddings. This takes 7–8 seconds once at index build time.
+
+**Step 2: Learn a compact per-cluster scorer.** For each of the 224 clusters, we take the
+cluster's 223×128 document matrix X and compute its truncated SVD: X ≈ U₃₂ Σ₃₂ V₃₂ᵀ. We store
+two small matrices: A = U₃₂Σ₃₂ (223×32 f32) and B = V₃₂ (128×32 f32). This is cheap: a 223×128
+SVD takes <5 ms on a modern CPU.
+
+**Step 3: Query time — two fast operations.**
+- First, find the 8 nearest cluster centroids to the query (224 × 128 dot products = 28,672 mults).
+- For each of those 8 clusters, compute approximate scores for all ≈223 products using
+  `A (Bᵀ q)`: 32×128 + 223×32 = 4,096 + 7,136 = 11,232 mults per cluster. Total: 89,856 mults.
+- Keep the top-200 candidates by approximate score.
+
+**Step 4: Exact rerank.** Compute exact dot products for those 200 candidates: 200 × 128 = 25,600
+mults. Return top-10.
+
+**Total:** ~143,456 multiplications vs 6,400,000 for brute force = **44.6× fewer operations**.
+Actual measured speedup on synthetic d=128 data: **30.9× QPS at 56.1% recall@10**.
+
+---
+
+## Practical Failure Modes
+
+### 1. Low recall at high n_probe (candidate budget starvation)
+
+**Symptom:** Recall decreases when n_probe is increased beyond n_probe≈8.
+
+**Root cause:** `candidate_set / n_probe` candidates are taken per cluster. At n_probe=32,
+candidate_set=200 → 6 per cluster. If a true nearest neighbour ranks 7th by approximate score
+in its cluster, it is missed.
+
+**Fix:** Set `candidate_set = k * n_probe` where k≥10. For k=10, n_probe=16: candidate_set=160.
+
+### 2. Empty or single-vector clusters
+
+**Symptom:** `ClusterTooSmall` error during build.
+
+**Root cause:** k-means over-partitions a small dataset, producing degenerate clusters.
+
+**Fix:** Use `n_clusters ≤ n/10` to ensure ≥10 vectors per cluster on average. The
+`LorannConfig::for_corpus(n)` constructor enforces `n_clusters = √n ≤ 4096`.
+
+### 3. SVD dominates build time at large n
+
+**Symptom:** Build takes minutes for n≥1M.
+
+**Root cause:** SVD of an m×d matrix costs O(m²d + d²m) — superlinear in cluster size.
+
+**Fix:** (a) Increase `n_clusters` to reduce m_avg; (b) Use a faster SVD library (`faer`,
+`nalgebra` with LAPACK backend); (c) Subsample each cluster to ≤500 vectors for SVD then
+fine-tune on the full cluster.
+
+### 4. Poor recall on synthetic vs real data
+
+**Symptom:** 85% recall on Gaussian-clustered data but 60% on a real embedding dataset.
+
+**Root cause:** Real embedding distributions (SIFT, GIST, text embeddings) have different
+singular value decay. The SVD rank needed for ≥85% recall may be r=48–64 for text embeddings vs
+r=32 for Gaussian data.
+
+**Fix:** Run the n_probe sweep on a representative sample of your production query log and tune
+`rank` and `n_probe` together.
+
+---
+
+## What to Improve Next
+
+### 1. Adaptive candidate budget allocation
+Instead of `candidate_set / n_probe` per cluster, allocate proportionally to the cluster's top
+centroid score: clusters with higher scores get more candidate slots. Expected recall gain: 5–15%
+at same QPS.
+
+### 2. int8 quantization of A and B matrices
+Current implementation stores A and B as f32. Quantizing to int8 (absmax per row) reduces model
+memory by 4× and enables VPDPBUSD (AVX-512 VNNI) for the matmul, expected 2–4× additional QPS gain.
+
+### 3. Regression-based B matrix
+The paper's actual contribution is training B on sample queries (not just V_r from SVD of X).
+Implementing the regression step (minimise ||A Bᵀ Q − X^T Q||_F over training queries Q) should
+improve recall at the same rank, especially for high-dimensional text embeddings where query
+distributions are non-uniform.
+
+### 4. Integration with ruvector-rabitq
+Layer RaBitQ 1-bit quantization on the approximate scorer: store A in f32 but B in 1-bit (64×
+smaller), use Charikar-style estimator for inner products. This can reduce model memory to
+<1 MB per cluster while maintaining competitive recall.
+
+### 5. ann-benchmarks validation
+Run on standard ann-benchmarks datasets (SIFT-1M, GIST-960, GloVe-100, Deep-96) to produce
+comparable numbers against published LoRANN, FAISS IVF-PQ, and HNSW baselines.
+
+---
+
+## Production Crate Layout Proposal
+
+```
+crates/ruvector-lorann/
+├── Cargo.toml
+└── src/
+    ├── lib.rs          — public API + tests
+    ├── config.rs       — LorannConfig (hyperparameters)
+    ├── error.rs        — LorannError enum
+    ├── kmeans.rs       — k-means++ Lloyd's algorithm
+    ├── regression.rs   — ClusterModel (SVD factorisation)
+    ├── index.rs        — FlatExactIndex, LorannIndex, AnnIndex trait
+    └── main.rs         — lorann-demo benchmark binary
+
+crates/ruvector-lorann-wasm/  [future]
+    — wasm32-unknown-unknown target, no rayon, sequential k-means
+
+crates/ruvector-lorann-node/  [future]
+    — Node.js NAPI bindings via ruvector-node pattern
+
+Extension points (feature flags):
+    int8               — int8 A/B matrices + AVX-512 VNNI scoring
+    regression-fit     — supervised B-matrix fitting on training queries
+    mmap               — memory-mapped A/B matrices for disk-resident serving
+    serde              — serialise/deserialise LorannIndex to/from bytes
+```
+
+---
+
+## References
+
+1. Jääsaari, E., Hyvönen, V., Roos, T. "LoRANN: Low-Rank Matrix Factorization for Approximate
+   Nearest Neighbor Search." NeurIPS 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18926
+
+2. Babenko, A., Lempitsky, V. "The Inverted Multi-Index." CVPR 2012 / IEEE PAMI 2015.
+
+3. Guo, R., Sun, P., Lindgren, E., Geng, Q., Simcha, D., Chern, F., Kumar, S.
+   "Accelerating Large-Scale Inference with Anisotropic Vector Quantization (ScaNN)."
+   ICML 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10396
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