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Security proposes binary quantization to mitigate data...

Both binary and product quantization are memory optimizations, not security mitigations. If you perform the math, you will find that even with quantization, the remaining information is often sufficient to recover the original passage, meaning the security goal is not met. You should address security through proper scoping and redaction, and handle quantization separately based on the necessary trade-off between memory and recall.

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