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Has anyone implemented Google's TurboQuant paper yet?

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14 May
The End of the Memory Tax: How Google’s TurboQuant is Rewriting the Rules of Local RAG Systems

<p>Building a production-ready, fault-tolerant Retrieval-Augmented Generation system is an exercise in managing harsh tradeoffs. You want massive context, lightning-fast hybrid

REPORT · HOW · Dev.toOPEN STORY
27 Mar
Google TurboQuant blew up for KV cache. Here’s TurboQuant-v3 for the actual weights you load first. Runs on consumer GPUs today.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s5cggh/google_turboquant_blew_up_for_kv_cache_heres/"> <img alt="Google TurboQuant blew up for KV cache.

OPINION · WHEN · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
10 Apr
How are you handling KV cache memory pressure in production? HBM keeps filling up

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Running Llama-3-70B with long contexts and hitting HBM limits constantly. 128K context burns approx 40GB just for KV cache — half the H100 gone

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
9 May
DeepSeek V4 paper full version is out, FP4 QAT details and stability tricks [D]

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>DeepSeek dropped the full V4 paper this week. preview from april was 58 pages, this version adds a lot of technical depth.</p> <p>What stood out

OPINION · WHEN · MachineLearningOPEN STORY
24 Mar
Delta-KV for llama.cpp: near-lossless 4-bit KV cache on Llama 70B

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I applied video compression to LLM inference and got <strong>10,000x less quantization error at the same storage cost</strong></p> <p><a

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
8 Apr
Napkin math: KV cache for Llama 3.1 at 128K context is ~64GB per decode request, and that's after GQA

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Every output token the model generates requires reading the entire KV cache from High Bandwidth Memory.</p> <p>Here's what that actually looks

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
22 Apr
TurboQuant-H: A Technique For Quantizing Models Like Gemma 4 E2B/E4B to 2-bit

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Embedding layers are sensitive to quantization and Gemma 4 E2B/E4B have a ton of those which bloat the model parameter counts to 5B/10B. Makes

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
25 Mar
TurboQuant, KV cache x6 less memory and X8 faster with zero accuracy loss

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://x.com/i/status/2036533564158910740">https://x.com/i/status/2036533564158910740</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by

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