GigaAM-v3 — GGUF (ggml conversions)

GGUF conversions of ai-sage/GigaAM-v3 for use with the gigaam backend in CrispStrobe/CrispASR.

GigaAM-v3 is a 220 M-parameter Conformer foundation model for Russian ASR, pretrained with a HuBERT-CTC objective on ~700 K hours of Russian speech. The upstream repo ships five checkpoints as git revisions; the four ASR ones are converted here (the ssl encoder has no head and produces no transcript).

Which one to pick

gigaam-v3-e2e-rnnt-q8_0.gguf unless you have a reason not to — it is the lowest-WER variant, emits punctuation and casing, and its transcript is identical to the PyTorch reference.

Usage

crispasr --backend gigaam -m gigaam-v3-e2e-rnnt-q8_0.gguf -f audio.wav
# or let the registry fetch it:
crispasr --backend gigaam -m auto --auto-download -f audio.wav

Audio is 16 kHz mono. Long inputs are sliced by the CLI's VAD/chunking; the model itself has a ~25 s practical window (full attention, O(T²)).

Verification

Every file was checked against a per-stage PyTorch reference dumped from the upstream modeling_gigaam.py (crispasr-diff gigaam <model> <ref> <wav>), on GigaAM's own example.wav:

So: q8_0 is the safe quant; q4_k is fine for the charwise models and costs a little casing/punctuation fidelity on the two SentencePiece ones.

In every quant the mel filterbank, Hann window, encoder.pre.* subsampling convs and the decode head (joint.* / decoder.* / head.ctc.*) are kept at source precision — the mel is un-normalized log-mel, so subsampling rounding error would otherwise cascade through all 16 conformer blocks, and the head is a blank-vs-token argmax where a flipped decision derails the greedy decode.

Conversion

python models/convert-gigaam-to-gguf.py \
    --model ai-sage/GigaAM-v3 --revision e2e_rnnt \
    --output gigaam-v3-e2e-rnnt-f16.gguf
./build/bin/crispasr-quantize gigaam-v3-e2e-rnnt-f16.gguf \
    gigaam-v3-e2e-rnnt-q8_0.gguf q8_0

License

MIT, inherited from ai-sage/GigaAM-v3. Please cite the upstream model when you use these weights.

Provenance and EU AI Act Art. 53 note

• Upstream model: ai-sage/GigaAM-v3 — published by ai-sage.
• Upstream licence: mit. This repository redistributes under the same terms; it grants no rights the upstream licence does not.
• What was done here: format conversion and/or quantisation only (GGUF/GGML). No training, no fine-tuning, no merging, no distillation, no change to architecture, vocabulary or capability. Only the numeric representation of the upstream weights differs.
• Training data: documented — where it is documented at all — by the upstream provider; see the upstream model card. No training data was used, added or selected by this repository.
• Provider status: under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 the upstream authors remain the provider of this model. Converting the serialisation format does not make this repository the provider of a new general-purpose AI model, and no such claim is made. Questions about training content, copyright policy or model capability belong upstream.