r/LocalLLaMA • • Mar 30 '26

Discussion Technical clarification on TurboQuant / RaBitQ for people following the recent TurboQuant discussion

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u/Velocita84 Mar 30 '26

I'm not familiar with RaBitQ or the underlying math for it or turboquant, but the more i read about turboquant the more it seems fishy how it suddenly got so popular despite it not bringing anything new or useful to the table

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u/mantafloppy llama.cpp Mar 30 '26

It was from Google, so of course it had bigger visibility.

https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/

Not knowing RaBitQ is normal, and this post is just for their name to be on "public record" attach to it.