Pinecone has launched VQ-bench, an open-source library for composing and benchmarking vector quantization pipelines, after finding no systematic way to compare existing methods.

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      "[post] Pinecone has used quantization since its first prototypes, and we keep looking for the state of the art. So this summer we set out to survey it.",
      "[post] So we built VQ-bench: an open-source library of those primitives, composable into pipelines, and designed to be extended.",
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