A comparative study reveals that the EDEN quantization algorithm, first introduced in 2021, consistently outperforms TurboQuant, a method presented at ICLR 2026. The research, co-authored by Amit Portnoy and others, highlights that TurboQuant's mse variant is a degenerate case of EDEN, which employs rotation-based vector quantization more effectively. EDEN uses a deterministic quantizer with an analytically derived scale, yielding a significant reduction in mean squared error (MSE) compared to TurboQuant-mse across various dimensions and bit-widths. The findings demonstrate that EDEN maintains a measurable advantage in practical applications involving embeddings and KV caches.
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2021 EDEN Quantization Algorithm Outperforms TurboQuant from 2026
Towards Data Science· Amit Portnoy· Sunday, May 3, 2026
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