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Installation

git clone https://github.com/tonbistudio/turboquant-pytorch

cd turboquant-pytorch

pip install -r requirements.txt

# For CUDA PyTorch:

pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128

requirements.txt includes:

torch>=2.0

scipy (Lloyd-Max codebook computation)

transformers, accelerate, bitsandbytes (only for real model validation)

Project Structure

turboquant/

  __init__.py           # Package exports

  lloyd_max.py          # Lloyd-Max optimal scalar quantizer

  turboquant.py         # Core: TurboQuantMSE, TurboQuantProd, TurboQuantKVCache

  compressors.py        # Production compressors for real model tensors

  test_turboquant.py    # Synthetic validation tests

  validate.py           # Real model (Qwen2.5-3B) validation

Key Commands

# Run synthetic algorithm validation (no GPU required, but GPU enables speed benchmark)

python -m turboquant.test_turboquant

# Run real model validation on Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct

# Requires CUDA GPU with ≥6GB VRAM; downloads ~2GB model on first run

python -m turboquant.validate

Core API

Lloyd-Max Codebook

from turboquant.lloyd_max import build_lloyd_max_codebook

# Build optimal scalar quantizer codebook for d-dimensional rotated unit vectors

# Returns (boundaries, centroids) for the given bit-width

boundaries, centroids = build_lloyd_max_codebook(dim=128, bits=3)

Stage 1: MSE Quantization (TurboQuantMSE)

from turboquant.turboquant import TurboQuantMSE

# Initialize for head_dim=128, 3-bit quantization

tq_mse = TurboQuantMSE(dim=128, bits=3)

# Compress a batch of vectors: shape (batch, dim)

keys = torch.randn(512, 128)  # 512 key vectors

codes = tq_mse.quantize(keys)       # integer codes, (512, 128)

reconstructed = tq_mse.dequantize(codes)  # approximate keys, (512, 128)

Stage 2: Unbiased Inner Product Estimation (TurboQuantProd)

from turboquant.turboquant import TurboQuantProd

# Initialize with QJL correction

tq_prod = TurboQuantProd(dim=128, bits=3, proj_dim=64)

# Compress key vectors (stores codes + QJL residual signs)

compressed = tq_prod.compress(keys)  # dict with 'codes', 'signs', 'residual_norms'

# Estimate inner products <query, key> for all keys — unbiased estimator

query = torch.randn(128)

scores = tq_prod.inner_product(query, compressed)  # shape (512,)

KV Cache Wrapper (TurboQuantKVCache)

from turboquant.turboquant import TurboQuantKVCache

# Wrap a KV cache for a single attention head

cache = TurboQuantKVCache(dim=128, bits=3, proj_dim=64)

# Add key/value vectors as tokens are generated

cache.append_key(new_key)    # shape (dim,)

cache.append_value(new_val)  # shape (dim,)

# Compute attention scores for a query against all cached keys

query = torch.randn(128)

scores = cache.attention_scores(query)  # shape (seq_len,), unbiased

# Get values (MSE-reconstructed, used for weighted sum)

values = cache.get_values()  # shape (seq_len, dim)

Production Compressors (for real model tensors)

from turboquant.compressors import TurboQuantCompressorV2, TurboQuantCompressorMSE

# Key compressor — supports asymmetric attention score computation

key_compressor = TurboQuantCompressorV2(dim=128, bits=3, proj_dim=64)

# Compress all keys in a layer: shape (num_heads, seq_len, head_dim)

compressed_keys = key_compressor.compress(layer_keys)

# Compute attention scores directly from compressed keys (no decompress needed)

# query shape: (num_heads, head_dim)

scores = key_compressor.asymmetric_attention_scores(query, compressed_keys)

# scores shape: (num_heads, seq_len)

# Value compressor — MSE reconstruction (Stage 1 only, acceptable for values)

val_compressor = TurboQuantCompressorMSE(dim=128, bits=3)

compressed_vals = val_compressor.compress(layer_values)

reconstructed_vals = val_compressor.decompress(compressed_vals)

Common Patterns

Pattern 1: Compress a Full Model's KV Cache

import torch

from turboquant.compressors import TurboQuantCompressorV2, TurboQuantCompressorMSE

def compress_kv_cache(kv_cache, head_dim=128, bits=3, proj_dim=64):

    """

    kv_cache: list of (keys, values) per layer

              keys/values shape: (num_heads, seq_len, head_dim)

    Returns list of compressed (keys, values) per layer.

    """

    key_comp = TurboQuantCompressorV2(dim=head_dim, bits=bits, proj_dim=proj_dim)

    val_comp = TurboQuantCompressorMSE(dim=head_dim, bits=bits)

    compressed = []

    for layer_keys, layer_vals in kv_cache:

        c_keys = key_comp.compress(layer_keys)

        c_vals = val_comp.compress(layer_vals)

        compressed.append((c_keys, c_vals))

    return compressed, key_comp, val_comp

def run_attention_with_compressed_cache(query, compressed_keys, compressed_vals,

                                        key_comp, val_comp):

    """

    query: (num_heads, head_dim)

    Returns: attention output (num_heads, head_dim)

    """

    # Unbiased attention scores from compressed keys

    scores = key_comp.asymmetric_attention_scores(query, compressed_keys)

    # scores: (num_heads, seq_len)

    attn_weights = torch.softmax(scores, dim=-1)  # (num_heads, seq_len)

    # Decompress values and compute weighted sum

    values = val_comp.decompress(compressed_vals)  # (num_heads, seq_len, head_dim)

    output = torch.einsum('hs,hsd->hd', attn_weights, values)

    return output

Pattern 2: Validate Compression Quality

import torch

import torch.nn.functional as F

from turboquant.turboquant import TurboQuantProd

def measure_attention_fidelity(keys, queries, bits=3, proj_dim=64):

    """

    Measure how well TurboQuant preserves attention distributions.

    keys:    (seq_len, head_dim)

    queries: (num_queries, head_dim)

    """

    dim = keys.shape[-1]

    tq = TurboQuantProd(dim=dim, bits=bits, proj_dim=proj_dim)

    compressed = tq.compress(keys)

    cosine_sims = []

    top1_matches = []

    for q in queries:

        # True attention scores

        true_scores = (keys @ q)  # (seq_len,)

        true_attn = torch.softmax(true_scores, dim=0)

        # TurboQuant estimated scores

        est_scores = tq.inner_product(q, compressed)  # (seq_len,)

        est_attn = torch.softmax(est_scores, dim=0)

        # Cosine similarity of attention distributions

        cos_sim = F.cosine_similarity(true_attn.unsqueeze(0),

                                       est_attn.unsqueeze(0)).item()

        cosine_sims.append(cos_sim)

        # Top-1 match

        top1_matches.append(true_attn.argmax() == est_attn.argmax())

    return {

        'mean_cosine_sim': sum(cosine_sims) / len(cosine_sims),

        'top1_accuracy': sum(top1_matches) / len(top1_matches),

    }

# Example usage

keys = torch.randn(2048, 128)

keys = F.normalize(keys, dim=-1)

queries = torch.randn(100, 128)

queries = F.normalize(queries, dim=-1)

results = measure_attention_fidelity(keys, queries, bits=3)

print(f"Cosine similarity: {results['mean_cosine_sim']:.4f}")

print(f"Top-1 accuracy:    {results['top1_accuracy']:.2%}")

Pattern 3: Needle-in-Haystack Retrieval Test

import torch

import torch.nn.functional as F

from turboquant.turboquant import TurboQuantProd

def needle_in_haystack(seq_len=2048, dim=128, bits=3):

    """Test whether TurboQuant preserves nearest-neighbor ordering."""

    tq = TurboQuantProd(dim=dim, bits=bits, proj_dim=64)

    # Build haystack of random unit vectors

    haystack = F.normalize(torch.randn(seq_len, dim), dim=-1)

    # Insert needle at random position

    needle_idx = torch.randint(0, seq_len, (1,)).item()

    query = F.normalize(torch.randn(dim), dim=0)

    needle = query + 0.1 * torch.randn(dim)  # Similar to query

    needle = F.normalize(needle, dim=0)

    haystack[needle_idx] = needle

    # Compress

    compressed = tq.compress(haystack)

    # True nearest neighbor

    true_scores = haystack @ query

    true_best = true_scores.argmax().item()

    # TurboQuant estimated nearest neighbor

    est_scores = tq.inner_product(query, compressed)

    est_best = est_scores.argmax().item()

    return true_best == est_best, true_best, est_best

# Run multiple trials

successes = sum(needle_in_haystack(seq_len=8192)[0] for _ in range(20))

print(f"Retrieval accuracy: {successes}/20")

Pattern 4: Compute Memory Savings

def estimate_memory_savings(num_layers, num_kv_heads, seq_len, head_dim,

                             bits, proj_dim=64):

    """

    Estimate compressed KV cache size vs FP16 baseline.

    """

    # FP16 baseline: 2 bytes per element

    fp16_bytes = num_layers * 2 * num_kv_heads * seq_len * head_dim * 2

    # Stage 1 codes: bits per element, packed into bytes

    codes_bytes = (num_layers * 2 * num_kv_heads * seq_len * head_dim * bits) // 8

    # Stage 2 signs (keys only): 1 bit per proj_dim element

    signs_bytes = (num_layers * num_kv_heads * seq_len * proj_dim) // 8

    # Residual norms: 1 float16 per vector (keys only)

    norms_bytes = num_layers * num_kv_heads * seq_len * 2

    total_compressed = codes_bytes + signs_bytes + norms_bytes

    ratio = fp16_bytes / total_compressed

    print(f"FP16 baseline:      {fp16_bytes / 1e6:.1f} MB")

    print(f"TurboQuant {bits}-bit:  {total_compressed / 1e6:.1f} MB")

    print(f"Compression ratio:  {ratio:.1f}x")

    return ratio

# Qwen2.5-3B: 36 layers, 2 KV heads, head_dim=128

estimate_memory_savings(

    num_layers=36, num_kv_heads=2,

    seq_len=8192, head_dim=128, bits=3

)

# FP16 baseline:      289.4 MB

# TurboQuant 3-bit:   57.9 MB

# Compression ratio:  5.0x

Algorithm Details

Why Random Rotation?

Rotating by a random orthogonal matrix R maps unit vectors to a space where each coordinate follows N(0, 1/d). This makes coordinates nearly independent with known distribution — enabling optimal per-coordinate scalar quantization (Lloyd-Max).

Why QJL for Keys but Not Values?

Keys: Used in dot products with queries. Bias in inner product estimates directly corrupts attention weights. QJL correction is essential.

Values: Used in weighted sums after softmax. Small per-vector MSE errors average out. Stage 1 MSE quantization is sufficient.

Choosing proj_dim (QJL projection dimension)

Higher proj_dim → lower variance in inner product estimates, but more memory:

# Rule of thumb: proj_dim = head_dim // 2 is a good default

# head_dim=128 → proj_dim=64

# head_dim=64  → proj_dim=32

# head_dim=256 → proj_dim=128

Bit-width Selection Guide

Bits

Compression

Cosine Sim

Top-1 Match

Use Case

3.8x

0.999

87%

Quality-critical tasks

5.0x

0.995

82%

Recommended default

7.3x

0.988

66%

Extreme memory pressure

Troubleshooting

**scipy import error when building codebooks:**

pip install scipy

**CUDA out of memory during validate.py:**

Requires ≥6GB VRAM for Qwen2.5-3B in 4-bit

Reduce seq_len in the validation script or use a smaller model

Inner product estimates have high variance:

Increase proj_dim (try head_dim instead of head_dim // 2)

Check that input vectors are normalized before compressing

Codebook build is slow on first run:

Lloyd-Max uses numerical integration (scipy) — this is expected

Codebooks are precomputed once per (dim, bits) combination; cache them:

import pickle

# Save codebook

boundaries, centroids = build_lloyd_max_codebook(dim=128, bits=3)

with open('codebook_128_3bit.pkl', 'wb') as f:

    pickle.dump((boundaries, centroids), f)

# Load cached codebook

with open('codebook_128_3bit.pkl', 'rb') as f:

    boundaries, centroids = pickle.load(f)

Attention fidelity lower than expected:

Ensure vectors are L2-normalized before compressing (F.normalize(x, dim=-1))

The compressors in compressors.py handle normalization internally; TurboQuantProd expects unit vectors

References

TurboQuant paper — ICLR 2026

QJL paper — 1-bit residual correction technique

PolarQuant — Related polar coordinate approach

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