[DiskBBQ] Quantize centroids using 7 bits instead of 4 bits #132261
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We have introduced a Int7 vectors scorer that shows it is faster that the int4 scorer in the microbenchmarks benchmarks. In addition it should provide more accurate results. The only trade off is that it requires two more bytes per vector so it will increase slightly the serialization size.
All in all, it is a better trade off so let's move our quantization strategy for centroids from int 4 to int 7.