the Turboquant debaucle is entirely on Google doing incredible amount of academic misconduct and general incompetence.

A) the QLJ thing they added is useless and the code they released didn't even include it since it makes the results worse

B) the blogpost about turboquant was ai generated and stated that turboquant used a polar transformation when it doesn't, so for the first 2 weeks people thought turboquant involved a transformation to polar coordinates. The reason the blogpost was wrong was probably because google tried to put their useless polarquant paper on the map by talking about it repeatedly.

C) since they don't use QLJ they wholesale copied the quantization technique from the HIGGS paper without citing it (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17525)

D) the whole rabitQ thing https://openreview.net/forum?id=tO3ASKZlok and google's incompetent and tonedeaf response https://openreview.net/forum?id=tO3ASKZlok&noteId=X882cbyNNM after asking rabitQ for help, then shitting on them in their paper and ignoring their emails when they objected