AI Glossary

Product quantization

What does “Product quantization” mean?

Product quantization: Compressing vectors by splitting them into subspaces and representing each with a code from a learned codebook.

Product quantization visual guide: Compressing vectors by splitting them into subspaces and representing each with a code from a learned codebook.
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What is an example of “Product quantization”?

A large retrieval service stores compact codes for embeddings to reduce index memory.