Hackaday

vector quantization

Large language models (LLMs) aren’t actually giant computer brains. Instead, they are massive vector spaces in which the probabilities of tokens occurring in a specific order is encoded. Billions of ...
Business Wire

Elastic Announces Faster Filtered Vector Search with ACORN-1 and Default Better Binary Quantization Compression

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, announced new performance and cost-efficiency breakthroughs with two significant enhancements to its vector search. Users ...
Design-Reuse

Pyramid Vector Quantization and Bit Level Sparsity in Weights for Efficient Neural Networks Inference

This paper discusses three basic blocks for the inference of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Pyramid Vector Quantization [1] (PVQ) is discussed as an effective quantizer for CNNs weights ...
Unite.AI

Your KV Cache Doesn’t Have a Bit Problem. It Has a Geometry Problem.

At identical 2-bit precision, one decision about which axis you quantize along swings a benchmark score from 2.88 to 63.53.
SDxCentral

TurboQuant: Did Google just drop a compression algorithm capable of stemming RAMageddon?

AI has a growing memory problem. Google thinks it's found the answer, and it doesn't require more or better hardware. Originally detailed in an April 2025 paper, TurboQuant is an advanced compression ...