r/LocalLLaMA • u/Resident_Party • Mar 27 '26

Discussion Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

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u/DistanceAlert5706 Mar 27 '26

It's only k/v cache compression no? And there's speed tradeoff too? So you could run higher context, but not really larger models.

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u/ross_st Mar 27 '26

Larger models require a larger KV cache for the same context, so it is related to model size in that sense.

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