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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 β†’ error concentrates β†’ quality loss.

TurboQuant uses orthogonal transforms β†’ error spreads β†’ zero loss.

That's the math that matters.

Installation


bash
pip install turboquant-moe
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