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mesuvash

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    IIUC, The paper's notation S^(d-1) means the unit sphere in R^d (e.g., the familiar unit circle is S^1 living in R^2). So, i think, x in the algorithm is already a unit vector. Ref…

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    Fair point. I've updated the animation to address this. The grid now uses the correct non-uniform centroids (optimal for the arcsine distribution in 2D), so you'll see grid lines c…

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    Yes, this is important in high dimension. But sadly, very hard to visualize. In 2d it looks like unnecessary.

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    That's actually correct and intentional. TurboQuant applies the same rotation matrix to every vector. The key insight is that any unit vector, when multiplied by a random orthogona…

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    Yes. Great catch. I simplified the grid just for visualization purpose. I've updated the visualization. The grid is actually not uniformly spaced. Each coordinate is quantized inde…

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    Comment #47525577

    Author here. Sorry still working on refining the post. Will share once the post is ready.

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    TurboQuant explained with an easy to understand (no-math) animation https://mesuvash.github.io/blog/2026/turboquant-interactive/

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    I am glad you liked it :) You might like this https://mesuvash.github.io/blog/2026/rl_for_llm/ as well :)

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    Thanks for the pointers. From my personal experience, Auto-encoders are amazing for dense input (images, audio etc), more specifically, when the input feature space is not large. H…

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    >>I think the hashes could take some work. Any suggestions or thing that are not clear? Thanks for your feedback. I shall update the post accordingly.

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    Nothing but #respect. It's hard to see people who give up fortune for what they consider right thing(atleast from his perspective).

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    Seaborn: Amazing plots with matplotlib

    Seaborn is a library of high-level functions that facilitate making informative and attractive plots of statistical data using Matplotlib.

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