Quantization - Qdrant - qdrant.tech ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## 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.