{
  "format": "minimax_h3_released_variant_metrics_v1",
  "vram_method": {
    "definition": "Text-encoder peak VRAM from a fresh child process per variant; nvidia-smi sampled every 100 ms; identical seven-token prompt. Unrelated pre-existing GPU use was excluded and is not recorded.",
    "unit": "MiB",
    "scope": "Peak GPU memory attributable to the text-encoder conditioning smoke.",
    "hardware": "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU",
    "limitations": [
      "Short text-conditioning smoke; longer or multimodal conditioning can require more memory.",
      "TE peak VRAM is an end-to-end runtime measurement, not a tensor-residency attribution."
    ]
  },
  "cosine_definitions": {
    "teacher_reference": "Mean same-teacher text-conditioning cosine from the original matched three-encoder comparison.",
    "quantization_parity": "Flattened conditioning-tensor cosine for one fixed seven-token prompt between two storage formats of the same recovered or pruned architecture."
  },
  "released_node_variants": [
    {
      "node_choice": "recovered_8b: recovered_8b_bf16",
      "te_peak_vram_mib": 10817,
      "te_peak_vram_gib": 10.56,
      "teacher_reference_cosine": 0.938678461010568,
      "quantization_parity_reference": "recovered_8b: recovered_8b_int8_convrot",
      "quantization_parity_cosine": 0.9999650716781616
    },
    {
      "node_choice": "recovered_8b: recovered_8b_int8_convrot",
      "te_peak_vram_mib": 6333,
      "te_peak_vram_gib": 6.18,
      "teacher_reference_cosine": null,
      "teacher_reference_note": "Not directly measured in the original matched teacher-reference comparison; do not substitute quantization parity.",
      "quantization_parity_reference": "recovered_8b: recovered_8b_bf16",
      "quantization_parity_cosine": 0.9999650716781616
    },
    {
      "node_choice": "pruned24_balanced: int8_convrot",
      "te_peak_vram_mib": 15525,
      "te_peak_vram_gib": 15.16,
      "teacher_reference_cosine": 0.9404705529707683,
      "quantization_parity_reference": "pruned24_balanced: nvfp4_awq",
      "quantization_parity_cosine": 0.9999949932098389
    },
    {
      "node_choice": "pruned24_balanced: nvfp4_awq",
      "te_peak_vram_mib": 10150,
      "te_peak_vram_gib": 9.91,
      "teacher_reference_cosine": null,
      "teacher_reference_note": "Not directly measured in the original matched teacher-reference comparison; do not substitute quantization parity.",
      "quantization_parity_reference": "pruned24_balanced: int8_convrot",
      "quantization_parity_cosine": 0.9999949932098389
    }
  ],
  "official_reference": {
    "id": "official_qwen3vl_32b_nvfp4_awq",
    "te_peak_vram_mib": 16430,
    "te_peak_vram_gib": 16.04,
    "teacher_reference_cosine": 1.0,
    "note": "Comparison reference; loaded with the standard ComfyUI CLIPLoader, not a custom-node package choice."
  },
  "conditioning_shape": [1, 7, 5120],
  "interpretation": "Cosine values are conditioning diagnostics, not visual-quality, prompt-adherence, or video-equivalence scores."
}