1-bit residuals shrink index 13x for 1.6 point loss

tomaarsen · x · 2026-08-26

Addressing multi-vector index size, the author highlights 1-bit residuals. Without pruning, this technique reduces the index to 3.37 GB (13x smaller than raw fp16) with only a 1.6 NDCG@10 performance drop.

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