Google TurboQuant: KV Cache Compression Technique
Google TurboQuant: KV Cache Compression Analysis
March 2026 | Google Research
Overview
Google Research introduced TurboQuant for KV cache compression in large language models.
Background
KV Cache memory consumption presents challenges for long-context language model deployments:
* 32K tokens requires several GB of VRAM
* 1M tokens becomes difficult to manage on single