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Summary

  • Implement TurboQuant (ICLR 2026) data-oblivious KV cache and embedding compression for ruvLLM
  • Two-stage pipeline: PolarQuant (Hadamard rotation + scalar quantization) + QJL residual correction (1-bit)
  • Add TurboQuantKvCache three-tier cache (FP16 hot + TurboQuant ~3.5-bit cold) with auto-migration
  • Add TurboQuantEmbeddingStore for RuVector-compatible compressed vector search
  • Research document mapping TurboQuant to ruvLLM architecture with PiQ3 comparison

Key metrics

  • ~6× memory reduction on cold KV cache tier
  • 2.5/3.0/3.5/4.0 bit configurations with geometry-preserving compression
  • No training, no codebooks, no dataset-specific tuning
  • 13 passing tests covering roundtrip, compression ratios, inner product preservation, batch ops, KV cache, eviction, and embedding search

Files changed

File Change
crates/ruvllm/src/quantize/turbo_quant.rs New: Core TurboQuant compressor, KV cache tier, embedding store
crates/ruvllm/src/quantize/mod.rs Updated: Module declaration + public exports
crates/ruvllm/src/kv_cache.rs Updated: CacheTier::TurboQuant, TurboQuantKvCache integration
docs/research/quantization-edge/08-turboquant-kv-cache-compression.md New: Research document

Test plan

  • cargo build -p ruvllm --features quantize succeeds
  • cargo test -p ruvllm --features quantize -- turbo_quant — 13/13 tests pass
  • Verify compression ratio > 4× on real KV cache workloads
  • Benchmark attention speedup with TurboQuant cold tier vs Q4

https://claude.ai/code/session_011ogX2uc7Zf8d8aQ3UAbNcd

claude and others added 3 commits March 25, 2026 12:13
Implement data-oblivious KV cache and embedding compression based on
TurboQuant (ICLR 2026). Two-stage pipeline: PolarQuant (Hadamard
rotation + scalar quantization) + QJL residual correction (1-bit),
achieving ~3.5 bits per value with geometry-preserving compression.

New modules:
- turbo_quant.rs: Core TurboQuantCompressor with compress/decompress,
  TurboQuantCacheTier for KV cache, TurboQuantEmbeddingStore for
  RuVector integration, asymmetric inner product for attention
- TurboQuantKvCache: Three-tier cache (FP16 hot + TurboQuant cold)
  integrated into kv_cache.rs with auto-migration

Key features:
- 2.5/3.0/3.5/4.0 bit configurations with QJL residual toggle
- ~6x memory reduction on cold tier, preserves inner product geometry
- Bitstream packing handles non-byte-aligned bit widths
- Embedding store with batch build, search, and nearest-neighbor
- 13 passing tests covering roundtrip, compression, inner products,
  batch ops, KV cache tier, eviction, and embedding search

https://claude.ai/code/session_011ogX2uc7Zf8d8aQ3UAbNcd
Comprehensive research document covering TurboQuant (ICLR 2026) and its
mapping to ruvLLM. Covers algorithm details, performance results,
integration architecture, PiQ3 comparison, risks/mitigations, and
implementation summary.

https://claude.ai/code/session_011ogX2uc7Zf8d8aQ3UAbNcd
Resolve Code Quality CI failure by applying cargo fmt.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
…benchmarks

- Add rotated-domain inner product (skip inverse Hadamard via orthogonal
  invariance: <Hq,Hk> = <q,k>), ~2x faster for attention computation
- Add batch-optimized variant that rotates query once across all keys
- Add Criterion benchmark suite: compression, decompression, inner product,
  KV cache ops, embedding store, dimension scaling, memory efficiency
- 5 new tests verifying optimized methods match original results
- All 18 TurboQuant tests passing

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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