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Sparse V3: how Pinecone's sparse index learned to skip
Pinecone's sparse index V3 groups posting data by term instead of document range, cutting disk I/O up to 1,428x and latency up to 119x, with no loss in recall.
By Rustam Nassyrov, Noah Rizika, Lea Wang-TomicPinecone

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Originally published by Pinecone on Jul 9, 2026.
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