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John Wagster

Senior Software Engineer

About the author

John Wagster is a software engineer at Elastic, where he works on improving Elasticsearch.

Author’s articles

Better binary quantization 101: How it works & the big benefits
Vector DatabaseLucene+1

October 22, 2024

Better binary quantization 101: How it works & the big benefits

Understand what binary quantization is, how it works and its benefits. This guide also covers the math behind the quantization and examples.

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By: John Wagster

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