VQ-bench: a Composable Vector Quantization Framework

VQ-bench is an open-source framework and benchmark from Pinecone designed to make vector quantization research more comparable, reproducible, and extensible, addressing the lack of consistent evaluations across many compression methods for high-dimensional vectors. It represents most quantizers as composable pipelines of reusable primitives—conditioners, rounders, and splitters—that implement training, encoding, reconstruction, scoring, and transformations between stages. The project includes a public benchmark website, GitHub repository, and research paper, and evaluates 14 quantizers across five VIBE datasets using reconstruction error, retrieval recall, encoding time, storage cost, and other measures. In reported results, PQ and OPQ generally achieved the lowest reconstruction error, while EDEN and E-RaBitQ showed comparable recall at higher bit budgets; EDEN also encoded substantially faster, making it a strong general-purpose option. VQ-bench invites contributors to add new quantizers or primitives and provides a shared evaluation harness to assess methods under the same metrics and datasets.

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