Storage efficiency for Kimi K3 model checkpoints, specifically supporting quantized or compressed formats.
Raw Developer Origin & Technical Request
GitHub Issue
Aug 3, 2026
### What can't you do today
The current implementation is extremely impressive, especially the ability to stream weights from disk and keep RAM usage low.
However, the storage requirement is still a major barrier for many users. The official checkpoint is around 1.56 TB, which makes it impossible to experiment on consumer laptops and desktops with 1 TB SSDs, even though they may have enough RAM to run the streaming implementation.
As a result, many users who could otherwise run the project are unable to try it locally.
### What you would like
Would it be possible to support a storage-efficient version of Kimi K3 in the future?
I'm thinking of something like:
- support for quantized checkpoints
- support for compressed model formats
- compatibility with future community-compressed or distilled Kimi K3 variants
Even if generation becomes slower or quality decreases somewhat, having a version that fits within roughly 50-100 GB would make the project accessible to a much wider audience.
I understand this may be outside the scope of the repository or depend on future community work, but I wanted to ask whether this is something you've considered.
Thanks for creating such an amazing educational project!
### Checked the roadmap
- [x] I read docs/ROADMAP.md and this is not already listed
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