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Support for Binary Quantization

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Would love to see this capability in pgvector: https://qdrant.tech/articles/binary-quantization/ Essentially, BQ converts any vector embedding of floating point numbers into a vector of binary or boolean values. > In exchange for reducing our 32 bit embeddings to 1 bit embeddings we can see up to a 40x retrieval speed up gain! > One of the reasons vector search still works with such a high compression rate is that these large vectors are over-parameterized for retrieval. This is because they are designed for ranking, clustering, and similar use cases, which typically need more information encoded in the vector.

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Solution: Support for Binary Quantization

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You can also store binary embeddings directly. [code block]

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    You can also store binary embeddings directly.

    You can also store binary embeddings directly.

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Resolved in pgvector/pgvector GitHub issue #395. Community reactions: 3 upvotes.

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pgvectorembeddingsvector-search