Kimi K3 GGUF Structural Validation Report
An independent structural validation report on two split GGUF releases of the Kimi K3 model, checking descriptor counts, identities, and shapes between quantization variants without downloading any tensor payload bytes.
This repository is a case-study report of an independent structural validation run against two split GGUF variants of Unsloth's Kimi-K3-GGUF release, UD-IQ1_M and UD-Q4_K_XL, pinned to a specific immutable artifact revision. Both variants are reported as "structurally validated with limitations," with 2,573 descriptors each, matching normalized identities and shapes between the two quantizations, and remote inspection that accepted zero tensor payload bytes.
The report is explicit about what it does not establish: artifact-specific provenance is unavailable, and payload equality and integrity, quantization fidelity, tokenizer parity, and runtime parity are not checked, so the findings say nothing about numerical correctness, model quality, benchmark performance, or the safety of the full Kimi release. The repository publishes the full report, an evidence manifest, a claim registry, a reproducibility manifest, and a public artifact index, generated by a separately maintained validation engine called OMIV.
The report and documentation are licensed CC BY 4.0, and the verification shell script is Apache 2.0.