LAYOUT.md

UQFF internal structure

The following describes the exact memory layout of UQFF tensors of version 0.1.0.

ToC

• GGUF quantization
• HQQ quantization
• Uquantized layers
• FP8 layers
• Standard tensors

GGUF quantization

ID	Element type	Endianness
UQFF version	u32	little endian
ISQ type (0)	u8	little endian
Tensor data length in bytes	u32	little endian
Whether bias data is included (boolean)	u8	little endian
Quantized dtype	u32	little endian
Num shape dims	u32	little endian
Array quantized weight shape dims	u32	little endian
Array quantized weight data	u8	little endian
[Optional] Array Bias tensor data, see docs	See docs	See docs

Unquantized layers

ID	Element type	Endianness
UQFF version	u32	little endian
ISQ type (1)	u8	little endian
Whether bias data is included (boolean)	u8	little endian
Array Weight tensor data, see docs	See docs	See docs
[Optional] Array Bias tensor data, see docs	See docs	See docs

FP8 layers

ID	Element type	Endianness
UQFF version	u32	little endian
ISQ type (1)	u8	little endian
Whether bias data is included (boolean)	u8	little endian
Array Weight tensor data, see docs	See docs	See docs
Dequant W scalar	f32	little endian
Dequant X scalar	f32	little endian
Quant scalar	f32	little endian
Quantization type	u32	little endian
[Optional] Array Bias tensor data, see docs	See docs	See docs

HQQ quantization

ID	Element type	Endianness
UQFF version	u32	little endian
ISQ type (2)	u8	little endian
Whether bias data is included (boolean)	u8	little endian
Array Q weight, see docs	See docs	See docs
Array Q scale, see docs	See docs	See docs
Array Q zeroes, see docs	See docs	See docs
Dequant weight num shape dims	u32	little endian
Array dequant weight shape dims	u32	little endian
CFG bits	u8	little endian
CFG group size	u32	little endian
CFG axis	u8	little endian
CFG optimization steps (0 means Option::None for now)	u32	little endian
CFG round zeroes (boolean)	u8	little endian
CFG channel wise (boolean)	u8	little endian

FP8 layers

ID	Element type	Endianness
UQFF version	u32	little endian
ISQ type (3)	u8	little endian
Whether bias data is included (boolean)	u8	little endian
Array Weight tensor data, see docs	See docs	See docs
Dequant scale W	f32	little endian
Dequant scale X	f32	little endian
Quant scale	f32	little endian
Layer dtype	u32	little endian
[Optional] Array Bias tensor data, see docs	See docs	See docs

Standard tensors

ID	Element type	Endianness
Tensor data length in bytes	u32	little endian
Tensor dtype	u32	little endian
Num shape dims	u32	little endian
Array shape dims	u32	little endian
Array flattened (contiguous) tensor data	u8	little endian