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MRVQ: One Resident Index for Dimension- and Rate-Elastic Vector Search
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- MRVQ is a vector quantization method that stores one index serving multiple embedding dimensions and compression rates simultaneously.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building dense-retrieval services that must adapt to changing latency, quality, and memory constraints at runtime.
- Watch out
- MRVQ trades memory efficiency for retrieval quality, losing 0.026-0.107 nDCG@10 compared to separately tuned indices on some benchmarks.
- retrieval
- embedding
- quantiz
- latency
- eval
The patterns behind this
- Hierarchical Index Retrieval (RAPTOR)
- Eval-Driven Development (Agent CI)
- Constraint Satisfaction Planning
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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