quantize_binary

Function quantize_binary 

Source
pub fn quantize_binary(emb: &Vector) -> Result<QuantizedVector, QuantError>
Expand description

Quantizes an embedding vector to binary (1-bit per value)

Binary quantization uses a simple threshold-based approach:

  • Calculate the mean of all values
  • Each value above mean → bit 1
  • Each value below mean → bit 0

This is extremely lossy but preserves relative ordering and is fast for similarity.

§Arguments

  • emb - The embedding vector to quantize

§Returns

  • Ok(QuantizedVector) - Quantized vector with 32x compression
  • Err(QuantError) - If quantization fails

§Example

use lnmp_quant::binary::quantize_binary;
use lnmp_embedding::Vector;

let emb = Vector::from_f32(vec![0.1, -0.2, 0.3, -0.4]);
let quantized = quantize_binary(&emb).unwrap();
assert_eq!(quantized.scheme, lnmp_quant::QuantScheme::Binary);