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Act VII · Region 07

Packing for Travel

Model formats and quantization, byte by byte

safetensors memory-mapping. GGUF as a one-file container. K-quants' hierarchical super-blocks. BitNet 1.58 turning multiplies into additions. Every format gets opened up and shown in cross-section.

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  1. 1
    safetensors anatomy
    Header · offsets · mmap-friendly tensor region
  2. 2
    GGUF containers
    One file, everything inside
  3. 3
    K-quants super-blocks
    256-weight blocks, per-sub-block scales
  4. 4
    BitNet 1.58, ternary
    Weights collapse to {-1, 0, +1}