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mr. TIM
timkellogg.me
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PolarQuant: 6x memory reduction 8x speed improvement
weirdly, this works for both KV-cache and vector DBs
the gist is they convert from cartesian coordinate vectors into polar coordinates, and since they’re always normalized to 1.0, they drop the magnitude too
https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/
https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_post&utm_content=gr-acct
2026-03-25T00:16:46.652Z