benwtrent commented on issue #14007:
URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/14007#issuecomment-2491059836

   > The technical feasibility of this new storage model.
   
   Very feasible. However, it gets tricky on accuracy and the quantization 
methods will require updating to handle this. But all the current (and 
hopefully future) quantization methodologies can easily "re-hydrate" vectors so 
that iterating floats is still possible (folks give floats, we should be able 
to return floats if they want them).
   
   > Potential impacts on search accuracy and performance.
   
   For higher fidelity quantization methods, I expect accuracy to be OK. I am 
not 100% sure with how things are now if we would ever want to quantize below 
int7 for storage. Int4 as it stands (when using the dynamic confidence 
interval), would suffer greatly without some more significant improvement to 
the algorithm.


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