Guides
Practical notes on downloading, verifying, and seeding model weights.
Verify downloads against Hugging Face checksums
How to confirm a torrented model is bit-for-bit identical to the official release using SHA-256 checksums from the model card.
Seeding etiquette for large modelsHow to be a good citizen in AI model swarms: ratios, disk strategy, and keeping rare models alive.
Choosing a GGUF quantizationQ4_K_M or Q8_0? How quantization levels trade quality for size, and which to download for your hardware.