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Parsing Safetensors File Format in C

Memory Mapping a Float-32 Safetensors File in C

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Murage Kibicho
Jul 15, 2025
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In part 2 we dive deep into BF-16, INT-8 and all other Safetensor binary formats. Sign up to receive updates.

Quick guide to safetensors

1.0 Introduction

Safetensors is a simple format for storing tensors safely. This means hackers can’t hide malicious executables in your AI model.

This is a low-level guide to opening, parsing and loading a safetensors file…

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