InnerQ per-channel equalization (head_dim=128) — TurboQuant KV Cache Optimization

Consensus Metrics

ppl 6.535 ± 0.18 (n=1, σ=0)

ppl_q8_baseline 6.421 ± 0.18 (n=1, σ=0)

ppl_turbo3_no_innerq 6.634 ± 0.18 (n=1, σ=0)

Parameters

type_k turbo3

type_v turbo3

innerq true

innerq_mode 0

innerq_strength 0.2

calibration_tokens 100000

context 2048

chunks 8

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Hypothesis

Per-channel RMS-based scaling before L2 norm + FWHT reduces turbo3 quantization error on head_dim=128 where channels are anisotropic

Reference

arXiv:2602.23200

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Subject

Model: Qwen3-14B-Q5_K_M Dataset: wikitext-2

Baseline Comparison

ppl_vs_q8 +1.78% ppl_vs_turbo3 -1.49%

Instances (1 reproduction)

cuda-rtx3090 claude-opus-4-6 RTX 3090

Adapts InnerQ paper (designed for integer quantization) to codebook-based turbo3. Key findings: (1) RMS-based scaling (mode=0) works; paper's max-based formula (mode=1) does NOT transfer (PPL 6.6716, worse than baseline). (2) Calibrating from BOTH K+V is better than K-only (6.5349 vs 6.5757). (3) Applying scales to both K and V empirically better than K-only (6.5349 vs 6.5418). (4) Strength sweep: 0.20 optimal, 0.10 too weak (6.5850), 0.50 too strong (6.5591). (5) Inverse scale applied to Q in FA kernel preserves dot products. (6) Online calibration from first 100K tokens.

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ppl 6.5349 ppl_q8_baseline 6.4206 ppl_turbo3_no_innerq 6.634 gap_closure 46%