Kimi K3 GGUF Structural Validation Report

Independent structural validation of UD-IQ1_M and UD-Q4_K_XL without downloading tensor payloads.

This case study records evidence-backed structural validation of two split GGUF variants from unsloth/Kimi-K3-GGUF at immutable artifact revision 3d4b61ab4b6789d401191c476cbb4567246db8f5. It publishes a bounded report, compact deterministic summaries, digest-linked evidence metadata, and a verifier for this public package.

Results

• UD-IQ1_M: STRUCTURALLY_VALIDATED_WITH_LIMITATIONS
• UD-Q4_K_XL: STRUCTURALLY_VALIDATED_WITH_LIMITATIONS
• Cross-quantization comparison: STRUCTURALLY_EQUIVALENT_WITH_QUANTIZATION_DIFFERENCES
• Both variants contain 2,573 descriptors; their normalized identities and shapes match. Remote inspection accepted zero tensor payload bytes.

Evidence limitations

Artifact-specific provenance is UNAVAILABLE. Payload equality and integrity, quantization fidelity, tokenizer parity, and runtime parity are NOT_CHECKED. The findings do not establish numerical correctness, model quality, benchmark performance, safety, deployment fitness, or validation of the full Kimi release.

Contents

• Full report
• Evidence manifest
• Claim registry
• Reproducibility manifest
• Public artifact index
• IQ1_M summary
• Q4 summary
• Structural comparison
• Reproduction guide

Relationship to OMIV

This repository contains the public case-study report, evidence summaries, and reproducibility metadata generated from an OMIV validation run. The OMIV validation engine is maintained separately.

Acknowledgements

Moonshot AI developed and released the Kimi K3 architecture. Unsloth published the compared GGUF variants. llama.cpp and GGML maintainers provide format, conversion, and quantization infrastructure. The broader open-model community supports review and interoperability. Acknowledgement does not imply endorsement.

Licensing

Original report, evidence summaries, this README, reproduction documentation, and community drafts are license