A CONCEPT · PROJECTED FROM THE VINDEX KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
QUANTISATION
fewer bits, fidelity recorded
Storing each number in fewer bits — fewer allowed values, every weight snapped to its nearest level — trading exactness for bandwidth returned.
In one measured case 1,959 MB per token became 1,269. But snapped numbers are changed numbers, and changed numbers can change answers — so in VINDEX3 a quantised copy is a named variant with recorded fidelity beside its original, never a fork, and nothing ships unmeasured.
IN THE GRAPH
quantisation— is a →representation
quantisation— disciplined by →fidelity