2026-05-10
ANN SearchVector QuantizationRetrieval
One Codebook, Two Tiers: Rethinking Quantization for ANN Retrieval
Why two-tier ANN pipelines train two codebooks when one nested codebook can serve both — and what it costs.
Notes on theoretical ML, transformers, and systems engineering.
Why two-tier ANN pipelines train two codebooks when one nested codebook can serve both — and what it costs.
How much of a neuron's transcriptomic identity is recoverable from connectivity alone in the Drosophila visual system?
Self-supervised pretraining and test-time adaptation for intracortical decoders under multi-year electrode drift.