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Ashwin Gopinath ✓

@ashwingop

CEO of Sentra; Used to be a Prof. at MIT; Random musings at https://t.co/C2NpmjRTl9

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Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

@ashwingop @sentra_app @GoogleResearch OKAY NOW WE ARE FUCKING TALKING 327 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

We've open-sourced the whole thing, code, data, and results. Take a look: https://t.co/VgkJrI2A7e 1.1K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

7. This isn't an LLM trick — The eigenvalue cliff shows up wherever attention does. We tested on: · Mistral 7B → 5.95× KV compression, +7.5% perplexity · DINOv2 / Depth Anything → compression improves accuracy · ESM-2 → matched fold quality on CASP15 · VideoMAE / AlphaFold https

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Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

5. Then the second trick — selective correction TurboQuant applies its JL bias correction to all 128 dims. Costs 128 sign bits per token. Correction noise scales with √128. We apply it to only the 4 signal dims. 4 sign bits. Noise scales with √4. 30× fewer dot products at http

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Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

6. And water-filling for the dominant dims — Even within the top 4 signal dims, eigenvalues vary. λ₀ = 0.50, λ₃ = 0.04. Uniform allocation: [3, 3, 3, 3] bits per dim. Water-filling (Shannon-Berger, 1948): [5, 3, 2, 2]. The dominant dim gets 64 levels of precision. Same https:

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Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

3. Why random rotation wastes bits — TurboQuant rotates KV vectors by a random orthogonal matrix Π before quantizing. That's mathematically optimal *if you don't know anything about your data*. But we do know — and after Π, the variance is roughly evenly spread across all 128 h

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Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

4. What we do instead — SpectralQuant rotates by the eigenvectors of the K covariance, measured during a 15-second calibration pass. After rotation: dim 0 has variance λ₀ (largest). Dim 127 has variance λ₁₂₇ (~0). We know exactly where the information lives, so we put the https:

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Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

1. The problem — Modern transformers spend most of their inference memory on the KV cache. Mistral 7B at 8k context = 4 GB just for keys and values. Llama 70B at 32k = 80 GB. Quantizing this is the highest-leverage compression target in inference today. TurboQuant (ICLR 2026) h

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Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

2. The insight Google missed — KV vectors are not random. We measured the eigenspectrum of every attention head in Mistral, Qwen, ESM-2 and ViT. The pattern is universal: ~80% of the variance lives in 4 of 128 dimensions. This is the empirical fact every compressor should htt

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Ashwin Gopinath ✓@ashwingop18 May

@sentra_app just killed @GoogleResearch's TurboQuant. SpectralQuant — 5.95× KV cache compression on Mistral 7B at +7.5% perplexity overhead. TurboQuant at the same compression: +22%. 3× less degradation. 15-second calibration. One per-model, then drop-in for any HuggingFace ht

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