Qdrant's 64-byte-per-page recipe: 128x compression with 99.2% retrieval quality
qdrant_engine · x · 2026-10-23
Qdrant shows Embed 5 Pro page vectors can shrink to 64 B per page in RAM — 128x smaller than float32 — while keeping 99.2% of full-vector quality.
- Keep first 512 dims (Matryoshka), store pages as 1-bit vectors
- 8-bit queries via Qdrant asymmetric quantization
- Rescore top 20 candidates with full 2048-dim vectors from disk
Related event: Qdrant Tests Cohere Embed 5: One Vector Per Page Beats ColPali at 64 Bytes(4 posts)→
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