Blog comment on 8-bit Rotational Quantization: How to Compress Vectors by 4x and Improve the Speed-Quality Tradeoff of Vector Search

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Blog comment on 8-bit Rotational Quantization: How to Compress Vectors by 4x and Improve the Speed-Quality Tradeoff of Vector Search

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https://weaviate.io/blog/8-bit-rotational-quantization

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Thank you for this great article and deep overview. For completeness, note that the optimality of rotational quantization (in terms of rate distortion) was also discussed in

https://arxiv.org/html/2303.03106v3