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Paper of the Week #2 β€” The Score Is in the Abstract, the Bill Is in Table 2

I rebuilt HoH's Planner→Developer→QA loop (arXiv 2609.01481) around Claude Code on 8 hidden-test tasks: the score gap stayed inside rerun noise while tokens tripled, 58k vs 177k. HoH's own Table 2 reports 3.25x. Plus the matched-loss control promised in issue #1, graded.

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Paper of the Week #2 β€” The Score Is in the Abstract, the Bill Is in Table 2

Paper of the Week #2 β€” The Score Is in the Abstract, the Bill Is in Table 2

I rebuilt HoH's Planner→Developer→QA loop (arXiv 2609.01481) around Claude Code on 8 hidden-test tasks: the score gap stayed inside rerun noise while tokens tripled, 58k vs 177k. HoH's own Table 2 reports 3.25x. Plus the matched-loss control promised in issue #1, graded.

- AI Research
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TurboQuant in vLLM on One A100 β€” Capacity, Speed, and Accuracy of All Four Presets on an 8B Model

TurboQuant in vLLM on One A100 β€” Capacity, Speed, and Accuracy of All Four Presets on an 8B Model

vLLM 0.28, Qwen3-8B bf16, one A100 80GB: KV capacity, batched throughput, 32K decode, needle-in-haystack, and GSM8K for bf16, fp8, and all four TurboQuant presets β€” the 8B size vLLM's own study skipped.

- Models & Algorithms
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Hybrid Mamba-Transformer, Measured β€” Qwen3.5-9B Fits 4.4x More Context and 3.6x More Requests on the Same A100

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Cache memory of Qwen3.5-9B (24 linear + 8 attention layers) vs Qwen3-8B measured from 2K to 64K context on one A100: 4.4x smaller at 64K, +37% prefill and 3.6x concurrency in vLLM β€” Part 1's claims confirmed, with a guide to which measurements can legitimately show it.

- AI Research
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TurboQuant From Scratch on Real KV Tensors β€” What 3 Bits Actually Cost, and Why the Forks Beat the Paper's Layout

TurboQuant From Scratch on Real KV Tensors β€” What 3 Bits Actually Cost, and Why the Forks Beat the Paper's Layout

PolarQuant in 60 lines of PyTorch on real KV from Llama-3.2-1B and Qwen3-8B: 3-bit costs +10% perplexity, k8v4 +0.2%, QJL only pays below 4 bits, and the block-32 layout explains half the forks' edge.

- Models & Algorithms
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TurboQuant llama.cpp CUDA Fork, Measured on an A100 β€” turbo4 Matches q4_0, turbo3 Breaks at Long Context

TurboQuant llama.cpp CUDA Fork, Measured on an A100 β€” turbo4 Matches q4_0, turbo3 Breaks at Long Context

Qwen3-8B Q4_K_M on one A100, six KV types: perplexity, prefill, decode-at-depth, and VRAM measured. turbo4 matches q4_0 quality and beats q8_0 decode 2.5x at depth; turbo3 triples perplexity at 32K context.

- Models & Algorithms
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TurboQuant Status Check, August 2026 β€” What Actually Shipped in vLLM, llama.cpp, and Ollama

TurboQuant Status Check, August 2026 β€” What Actually Shipped in vLLM, llama.cpp, and Ollama

vLLM shipped it in v0.20 and published a sobering benchmark; llama.cpp upstream rejected it in June; Ollama's implementation is dead. We also correct our own earlier "merged in llama.cpp" claim β€” with links.

- Models & Algorithms
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