Marianne Haugvaldstad

Developer intern at Vespa. Co-authored an in-depth exploration of the HNSW algorithm, building visualization and analysis tools during a summer internship. Blog handle: earti.

Contributions

  • Co-developed tooling to visualize HNSW graph traversal, disconnected components, edge density distributions, and neighbor proximity
  • Helped discover a Vespa bug via edge density analysis (layer-0 neighbor cap using wrong constant)

Articles

Concepts

HNSW · ACORN-1 · Dense Vector Retrieval