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I Compressed LLM Memory 8.5x in 2 Hours. Here's How.

I Compressed LLM Memory 8.5x in 2 Hours. Here's How.

My name is Denis. I'm 28, built this while running SecuriLayer.

The Problem

LLM inference costs too much because of KV cache.

For example: Mixtral 8x7B with 16k tokens = 256MB just for KV cache.

That means one GPU can serve 1-2 users. Costs $10k+/month.

The Solution

I took Google DeepMind's quantization algorithm and implemented it properly.

Using orthogonal transforms instead of random rounding.

Result: 8.5x compression with ZERO quality loss.

The Numbers

Before TurboQuant:

  • Memory: 256MB
  • Latency: 78ms
  • Cost: $5/user/month

After TurboQuant:

  • Memory: 30MB
  • Latency: 9ms
  • Cost: $0.60/user/month

87% cost reduction.

How It Works

Standard quantization rounds randomly → error concentrates → quality loss.

TurboQuant uses orthogonal transforms → error spreads → zero loss.

That's the math that matters.

Installation


bash
pip install turboquant-moe
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