A 10 million document vector corpus stored as standard float32 embeddings demands roughly 31 GB of raw RAM. For engineers running memory-constrained environments, edge hardware, or localized RAG architectures, that footprint is a non-starter. You either pay exorbitant cloud bills for high-memory instances or accept the heavy maintenance tax of traditional Product Quantization (PQ) indices like FAISS IndexPQ, which force you through upfront codebook training, slow vector-repacking removes, and complex parameter tuning.

TurboVec upends this trade-off. Built in Rust with Python bindings, TurboVec implements Google Research’s TurboQuant algorithm to squash that same 31 GB dataset down to 4 GB. It does this without requiring a offline training phase, without rebuilds as your corpus grows, and while outperforming FAISS IndexPQFastScan search latency across both ARM and x86 architectures.

```
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                       10M Document FP32 Corpus                        |
|                                31 GB                                  |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                   |
                                   v
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      TurboVec Quantized Index                         |
|                             4 GB (16x)                                |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
```

## The Quantization Trap: Why Traditional PQ Hinders Real-Time Ingest

Standard Product Quantization algorithms like FAISS IndexPQ achieve high compression by clustering vector sub-spaces using algorithms such as k-means++. However, this approach introduces three major systemic bottlenecks:

1. **Training Dependencies**: You cannot index vectors incrementally without first training codebooks on a representative sample. If your domain shifts, your quantization quality degrades until you rebuild the entire index.
2. **Dynamic Ingest Cost**: Adding or removing vectors on a live FAISS index requires expensive layout modifications. Removing an ID via `IndexIDMap` over `IndexPQFastScan` forces a complete repacking of stored codes, turning a simple deletion into an operational block that can take anywhere from 0.19 to 1.02 seconds for a 100K vector index.
3. **Hardware Inefficiencies**: Standard PQ search relies heavily on multi-byte Look-Up Table (LUT) sweeps that struggle to fully saturate SIMD vector registers across heterogeneous hardware.

TurboVec bypasses data-dependent codebook training entirely by leveraging data-oblivious quantization.

## Inside the TurboQuant Pipeline: Zero Training, Optimal Distortion

Instead of inspecting your dataset to find optimal cluster centers, TurboQuant exploits a key mathematical property of high-dimensional space: after a random rotation, any coordinate distribution converges to a predictable shape regardless of the input data.

```
Raw Vector (float32)
       │
       ▼
1. Normalize Lengths ──────────────► Store ||v|| as float32
       │
       ▼
2. Random Rotation ───────────────► Multiply by Random Orthogonal Matrix
       │                            (Coordinates convert to Beta / Gaussian)
       ▼
3. Per-Coordinate Calibration ────► TQ+ fits shift/scale scalars via index.calibrate()
       │
       ▼
4. Lloyd-Max Quantization ────────► Map coordinates to fixed theoretical buckets
       │                            (2-bit: 4 buckets | 4-bit: 16 buckets)
       ▼
5. Nibble Bit-Packing ────────────► Compress 1536 dims into 384 bytes
       │
       ▼
6. Length-Renormalized Scoring ───► Correct inner product bias using ||v|| / ⟨u, x̂⟩
```

### Step 1: Length Normalization
The vector's original magnitude (norm) is extracted and saved as an isolated float32 scalar. The remaining directional component is normalized onto a unit hypersphere.

### Step 2: Data-Oblivious Random Rotation
The unit vector is multiplied by a fixed random orthogonal matrix. This rotation redistributes energy across all dimensions. Regardless of whether your raw input consists of sparse text embeddings or dense audio vectors, the rotated coordinates independently follow a Beta distribution that converges to a Gaussian $N(0, 1/d)$ in high dimensions.

### Step 3: Per-Coordinate Calibration (TQ+)
While the Beta distribution holds asymptotically, finite-dimensional embeddings (especially low-bit regimes or word-vector styles) experience subtle coordinate drift. The TQ+ variant solves this by fitting two scalars per coordinate (a shift and a scale) to align empirical quantiles with the codebook's outermost centroids. Calling `index.calibrate(sample)` on a small draw (~1024 vectors) permanently locks in this state without triggering full-index retraining or rebuilds. TQ+ yields recall gains of up to +2.2 percentage points at R@1 on drifting datasets like GloVe d=200.

### Step 4: Mathematical Lloyd-Max Quantization
Because the post-rotation coordinate distribution is known mathematically, optimal bucket boundaries and centroids are calculated directly from probability theory using the Lloyd-Max algorithm. For 2-bit index configurations, coordinates fall into 4 buckets; for 4-bit, 16 buckets. No k-means, no iterations over data rows. The codebook achieves a distortion rate within a factor of 2.7x of Shannon's theoretical distortion-rate limit.

### Step 5: High-Density Bit-Packing
Quantized coordinate indices (0-3 for 2-bit, 0-15 for 4-bit) are packed directly into byte streams. A 1536-dimensional vector drops from 6,144 bytes in FP32 down to 384 bytes in 2-bit mode, yielding a 16x compression ratio.

### Step 6: Length-Renormalized Scoring
Scalar quantization inherently contracts vector magnitudes, causing inner products to be systematically underestimated. Adapted from the RaBitQ framework, TurboVec computes a scalar correction factor during encoding:

$$\frac{\|v\|}{\langle u, \hat{x} \rangle}$$

Where $u$ is the rotated unit direction and $\hat{x}$ is the centroid reconstruction. Multiplying candidate scores by this factor during search removes downward estimator bias at zero query-time cost and zero extra storage overhead.

## Low-Level SIMD Execution on ARM and x86

TurboVec writes kernel execution paths natively for target hardware using explicit SIMD intrinsics rather than relying on autovectorization. 

```
                       Query Input Vector
                               │
                               ▼
                   Query Random Rotation
                               │
                               ▼
                 +---------------------------+
                 |  SIMD Kernel Dispatch     |
                 +---------------------------+
                               │
            ┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐
            ▼                                     ▼
     ARM Architecture                       x86 Architecture
  (NEON SDOT / SMMLA)                  (AVX-512 VNNI / vpermb)
            │                                     │
            └──────────────────┬──────────────────┘
                               ▼
                32-Vector Block Filtering Check
                               │
                 ┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
                 ▼                           ▼
          [Block Allowed?]            [Block Excluded?]
                 │                           │
                 ▼                           ▼
       Nibble-Split LUT Scan           Short-Circuit Block
                 │                           (0 SIMD ops)
                 ▼
     Unbiased Score Accumulation
                 │
                 ▼
       Min-Heap Top-K Insert
```

### ARM Architectures (Google Axion / GCP c4a)
On ARM64, search queries utilize hand-written NEON kernels leveraging `SDOT` (Signed Dot Product) and `SMMLA` (Matrix Multiply Accumulate) instructions. The vector-major memory layout enables direct dot-product accumulation across packed byte structures.

### x86 Architectures (Intel Sapphire Rapids / Xeon)
Modern x86 chips utilize AVX-512 VNNI (Vector Neural Network Instructions) combined with `vpermb` for fast byte-level lookup table (LUT) evaluations. The kernel falls back dynamically to AVX2 implementations or scalar routines on older CPUs based on runtime feature detection via `is_x86_feature_detected!`.

### Short-Circuiting Block-Level Filtering
Unlike post-filtering architectures that score candidate items only to discard forbidden items later, TurboVec handles filtering directly inside its SIMD execution loop. Operations run over contiguous 32-vector blocks:

* If an allowlist bitmask indicates that zero slots inside a 32-vector block are permitted, the entire SIMD block is short-circuited before performing any LUT lookups or scoring logic.
* If a block is partially allowed, invalid slots are filtered out during final min-heap insertion.

This ensures selective filters eliminate computational work proportionally to their selectivity.

## Hardware Benchmarks: TurboVec vs FAISS

The following benchmark metrics reflect 100K vector indices queried with 1K input vectors at $k=64$ (median of 5 runs).

### Search Latency Metrics
In throughput tests against FAISS `IndexPQFastScan` (with sub-quantizer counts matched identically to TurboVec bit rates), TurboVec dominates across both ARM and x86 hardware.

| Architecture | CPU Target | Bit Depth | FAISS Latency | TurboVec Latency | Speedup Factor |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **ARM** | Google Axion (8 vCPU) | 4-bit | Baseline | **3.5x Faster** | 3.5x |
| **ARM** | Google Axion (8 vCPU) | 2-bit | Baseline | **1.26x Faster** | 1.26x |
| **x86** | Sapphire Rapids (8 vCPU)| 4-bit | Baseline | **3.4x Faster** | 3.4x |
| **x86** | Sapphire Rapids (8 vCPU)| 2-bit | Baseline | **1.20x Faster** | 1.20x |

### Dynamic Mutability: Ingest & Removal Performance
Where TurboVec sets an engineering milestone is dynamic index modification. FAISS incurs heavy penalties when modifying indexed structures post-creation.

```
Single Removal Latency (100K Vector Index)
FAISS IndexIDMap:  [========================================] ~1,020,000 µs (Repack)
TurboVec IdMap:    [=] 1.22 µs (O(1) Swap-and-Pop)
```

| Operation | Target Config | FAISS Performance | TurboVec Performance | Efficiency Gain |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Single Add ($n=1$)** | Warm Index | High Overhead | **6.3 - 19.7 µs** | 7.6x - 13.9x Faster |
| **Batch Add ($n=100$)** | Warm Index | High Overhead | **4.6 - 16.3 µs / vec** | 4.6x - 15.1x Faster |
| **Delete by ID ($n=1$)**| `IdMapIndex` | 0.19 - 1.02 seconds | **0.44 - 1.22 µs** | ~100,000x Faster |

FAISS relies on memory repacking during vector removals, causing second-long spikes. TurboVec's `IdMapIndex` executes deletions using an $O(1)$ swap-and-pop technique paired with index metadata tracking, resulting in sub-microsecond latency.

## Crash-Safe Incremental Persistence

Standard in-memory engines require full file dumps to persist updates to disk. TurboVec introduces incremental state syncing:

```python
from turbovec import IdMapIndex
import numpy as np

index = IdMapIndex(dim=1536, bit_width=4)
index.add_with_ids(vectors, ids)

# Full file snapshot
index.write("index.tvim")

# Make small updates
index.remove(1002)

# Incremental update: Flushes only modified bytes via single fsync
index.sync("index.tvim")
```

The `sync(path)` call isolates modified byte ranges, issues a single atomic `fsync`, and guarantees crash safety across arbitrary byte boundaries. Appending or deleting vectors on multi-gigabyte indices completes in milliseconds.

## Pragmatic Integration Guide

TurboVec provides native bindings for both Python and Rust environments, along with direct drop-in integration classes for common orchestration frameworks.

### Python Native API
Python arrays must be standard `float32` 2D contiguous arrays.

```python
import numpy as np
from turbovec import TurboQuantIndex, IdMapIndex

# Initialize uncalibrated or calibrate on sample
vectors = np.random.randn(10000, 1536).astype(np.float32)

index = TurboQuantIndex(dim=1536, bit_width=4)
index.add(vectors)

# Perform SIMD search
queries = np.random.randn(5, 1536).astype(np.float32)
scores, indices = index.search(queries, k=10)

# Stable ID tracking with dynamic filters
id_index = IdMapIndex(dim=1536, bit_width=4)
id_index.add_with_ids(vectors, np.arange(10000, dtype=np.uint64))

# Filtered Search: Executed directly inside the 32-vector SIMD block
allowed_ids = np.array([10, 25, 99, 402], dtype=np.uint64)
scores, ids = id_index.search(queries, k=10, allowlist=allowed_ids)
```

### Rust Native API
Add `turbovec` to your `Cargo.toml`:

```rust
use turbovec::{TurboQuantIndex, IdMapIndex};

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std.error::Error>> {
    let mut index = TurboQuantIndex::new(1536, 4)?;
    
    // Pass vector slices directly
    index.add(&vectors);
    let results = index.search(&queries, 10);
    
    // Persistent disk storage
    index.write("index.tv")?;
    let loaded = TurboQuantIndex::load("index.tv")?;
    
    Ok(())
}
```

### Framework Drop-In Integration
Swap out standard heavy vector stores in your existing application pipeline without rewriting pipeline abstractions:

```bash
pip install turbovec[langchain]
pip install turbovec[llama-index]
pip install turbovec[haystack]
pip install turbovec[agno]
```

* **LangChain**: Replaces `langchain_core.vectorstores.InMemoryVectorStore`
* **LlamaIndex**: Replaces `llama_index.core.vector_stores.SimpleVectorStore`
* **Haystack**: Replaces `haystack.document_stores.in_memory.InMemoryDocumentStore`
* **Agno**: Replaces `agno.vectordb.lancedb.LanceDb`

## Architecting Air-Gapped Local Vector Pipelines

By combining pure local execution, low memory overhead, and SIMD hardware acceleration, TurboVec provides a lean foundation for high-performance vector retrieval. Eliminating external API calls, background training routines, and managed database dependencies allows you to run millions of vector embeddings locally on a single machine.

## References

* https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec

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Python is phenomenal for prototyping machine learning models, but wrapping it around continuous video pipelines eventually hits a wall. Version 5.0.0 beta left users wrestling with instability, high overhead, and brutal disk thrashing. Lead developer K4YT3X addressed these structural bottlenecks directly: the entire codebase was scrapped and rebuilt in pure C/C++ for the 6.0.0 release. The architectural pivot shifts Video2X from an orchestration wrapper to a lean, deterministic media processing pipeline.

## Killing the Disk I/O Bottleneck

The primary operational headache in previous iterations was disk utilization. Early designs relied on intermediate frame dumps during upscaling, gobbling up hundreds of gigabytes of scratch space for high-resolution targets. 

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The updated engine handles both spatial enhancement and temporal synthesis:

* **Super-Resolution and Filtering**: Out-of-the-box integration for **Anime4K v4** alongside full GLSL shader compatibility for MPV.
* **Neural Upscaling and Frame Interpolation**: Full support for **Real-ESRGAN**, **Real-CUGAN**, and **RIFE** across every model variant, executing natively over **ncnn** and **Vulkan** acceleration layers.

## Instruction Sets and Silicon Constraints

By shifting to a bare-metal stack, raw hardware features govern compatibility. Your system requires native AVX2 vector extensions on the host CPU and functional Vulkan API support on the target GPU.

| Component | Architecture / Model Baseline | Launch Window |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Intel CPU** | Haswell | Q2 2013 or newer |
| **AMD CPU** | Excavator | Q2 2015 or newer |
| **NVIDIA GPU** | Kepler (GTX 600 Series) | Q2 2012 or newer |
| **AMD GPU** | GCN 1.0 (Radeon HD 7000 Series) | Q1 2012 or newer |
| **Intel GPU** | HD Graphics 4000 | Q2 2012 or newer |

## Distribution Targets and Cloud Execution

For local environments, the distribution pipeline covers multiple runtime scenarios:

* **Windows**: Standalone GUI installer package (v6.4.0).
* **Linux**: Native packaging available in the Arch User Repository (`aur/video2x`, `aur/video2x-qt6`), the `archlinuxcn` repository, and a distribution-agnostic **AppImage**.
* **Containers**: OCI-compliant images available through GitHub Container Registry.

For operators lacking compliant local hardware, **Google Colab** provides a viable execution environment. The platform offers access to NVIDIA T4, L4, and A100 acceleration units within 12-hour session windows. Automated, unattended batch jobs on free-tier allocations trigger account restrictions, making interactive monitoring essential.

The software is distributed under the **GNU AGPL v3** license and builds upon core components including **FFmpeg**, the **ncnn** framework, and upstream neural model repositories.

## Reference
https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x

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Every React Native engineer knows the telltale sign of an unoptimized build: that jarring, half-second white screen flash before your JavaScript bundle unpacks and mounts the UI. You do not need to pull in heavy third-party dependencies to fix this. The solution lies directly inside Android's native rendering pipeline, long before the React Native bridge or the JavaScript runtime even wakes up.

By leveraging native XML layer-lists and overriding `windowBackground` at the platform level, you can achieve an instant, native launch screen that renders with absolute zero JavaScript overhead.

---

### The Architecture of the Cold Launch Flash

When an Android OS starts an app process, it creates the window and immediately renders whatever placeholder is defined in the application's base theme. If you leave the theme untouched or push splash screen management exclusively into React components, the window displays the fallback default: a blank, blinding white canvas.

```
App Process Fork -> Native Window Init (Reads windowBackground) -> React Native Bridge Initializes -> JS Bundle Parsed -> Root React Component Mounts
```

If your splash screen lives only in JavaScript, it mounts at the very end of this timeline. By assigning a custom drawable to `android:windowBackground`, you hijack the earliest stage of the launch pipeline:

| Phase | Standard Setup | Native XML Splash Setup |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Process Fork & Window Creation** | Blank window fallback (White flash) | Instant native XML asset rendering |
| **Bridge & JS Engine Spin-up** | White screen persists | Splash screen remains visible |
| **Root View Mount** | React-driven splash mounts (Late) | React Native UI seamlessly replaces window background |

---

### Step 1: Project Initialization

Begin inside Android Studio by either opening your existing React Native Android directory or launching a fresh environment: **File → New → New Project**.

| ![Create New Project Android Studio](https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*GGyT-EooC-cjASUztOd84A.png) |
|:--:|
| *Android Studio Project Setup* |

---

### Step 2: Construct the Vector Layer-List

Avoid bundling multiple heavy PNG files across bucket densities whenever possible. Using an XML-based Vector Drawable or vector assets keeps your APK footprint lean while scaling predictably across every viewport density.

Navigate to your resources directory:
`app/src/main/res`

If it does not exist, right-click `res` → **New → Android Resource Directory**, select **drawable** as the resource type, and create it. Within `drawable`, add a file named `splash_screen.xml`:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:drawable="@color/splash_background"/>

    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:gravity="center"
            android:src="@mipmap/ic_launcher"/>
    </item>

</layer-list>
```

This `<layer-list>` establishes a two-layer composite. The base layer paints the entire canvas using your background color asset. The top layer sits precisely in the viewport center, rendering your targeted bitmap asset. You can easily swap `@mipmap/ic_launcher` for a Vector Asset created through **New → Vector Asset**.

---

### Step 3: Configure Theme Layering (`styles.xml`)

Open `app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml`. To intercept the default rendering cycle, assign your newly created layer-list directly to `android:windowBackground`:

```xml
<resources>  
      
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.DayNight.NoActionBar">  
          
        <item name="android:editTextBackground">@drawable/rn_edit_text_material</item>  
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/splash_screen</item>  
        <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>  
    </style>  
</resources>
```

#### Why These Flags Matter:
* **`android:windowBackground`**: Instructs the Android window manager to draw `splash_screen.xml` the exact microsecond the window is constructed.
* **`android:windowFullscreen`**: Removes system chrome, status bars, and navigation boundaries to give your brand mark an uninterrupted presentation.

---

### Step 4: Isolate Design Tokens (`colors.xml`)

Keep your style references modular. Under `app/src/main/res/values`, create or modify `colors.xml`:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<resources>  
    <color name="splash_background">#35386f</color>  
</resources>
```

Defining `#35386f` in a centralized color registry allows you to maintain exact visual parity across your native configuration and JavaScript design tokens.

---

### Step 5: Bind the Theme in the Manifest (`AndroidManifest.xml`)

Your configuration remains dormant until declared in your application manifest. Open `AndroidManifest.xml` and ensure the base `<application>` tag binds to your modified theme:

```xml
<application  
      android:name=".MainApplication"  
      android:label="@string/app_name"  
      android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"  
      android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"  
      android:allowBackup="false"  
        
      android:theme="@style/AppTheme">  
      <activity  
        android:exported="true"  
        android:name=".MainActivity"  
        android:label="@string/app_name"  
...  
...
```

The attribute `android:theme="@style/AppTheme"` on the `<application>` node acts as the critical switch. Omit this, and the OS ignores your layer-list, reverting to the standard blank theme during process startup.

---

### The Runtime Outcome

You now have a cold boot sequence that executes cleanly without third-party libraries, bridging overhead, or manual UI hacks:

| ![Splash Screen Dongeng Indonesia](https://miro.medium.com/max/576/1*xEVDcq7BRXQX_Qpz5ql3EA.gif) |
|:--:|
| *Completed Native XML Splash Execution* |

For production applications with more complex requirements, you may eventually evaluate migrating to the **Android 12+ SplashScreen API** (`core-splashscreen` compatibility library) to support programmatic icon animations and transition management. But if your goal is an unbloated, high-performance, zero-dependency baseline that kills the white flash forever, this native XML implementation gets the job done cleanly.

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