# VQ-bench: A Composable Vector Quantization Framework

> Source: <https://www.pinecone.io/research/VQ-bench/>
> Published: 2026-09-15 00:00:00+00:00

Abstract

Vector quantization is an old problem but has recently become central to AI infrastructure. It is therefore experiencing a surge of renewed engineering and research activity. This paper provides a unified framework for developing and benchmarking new quantization algorithms. We describe 7 common conceptual quantization primitives and show how to compose them arbitrarily. We then re-express 25 common quantizers as pipelines of these primitives. Finally, we publish VQ-bench as open-source to be extended further and make reproducible benchmarks publicly available.