Quantization - Qdrant - qdrant.tech

## Metadata
- Author: **qdrant.tech**
- Full Title: Quantization - Qdrant
- Category: #articles
- Tags: #ai #embeddings #ml
- URL: https://qdrant.tech/documentation/quantization/
## Highlights
- Quantization is an optional feature in Qdrant that enables efficient storage and search of high-dimensional vectors.
By transforming original vectors into a new representations, quantization compresses data while preserving close to original relative distances between vectors.
Different quantization methods have different mechanics and tradeoffs. We will cover them in this section.