CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use GRIT, please cite it as below."
title: "GRIT: Grouped Reduced-precision Interchange Type"
abstract: >-
  GRIT is a descriptor language and boundary-check protocol for block-scaled,
  reduced-precision arrays. A GRIT array is a quadruple (Grade, Placement,
  Planes, Shape): the Grade is the complete numeric contract with a canonical
  string form and a 64-bit id (gid), the Placement is a physical layout carried
  as a value rather than a type parameter, the Planes are up to four byte
  buffers, and the Shape is carried in the view. Equal gid and equal plane
  bytes imply bit-identical decode() on every conformant implementation, and
  the O(1) descriptor check never has undefined behaviour. This repository
  contains the normative specification, an executable reference, a shared
  conformance vector suite, and five independent zero-dependency
  implementations (C, C++, Rust, Python, TypeScript).
type: software
authors:
  - name: "singhpratech"
    email: "singhpratech@users.noreply.github.com"
version: "1.1.0"
date-released: "2026-08-01"
license: Apache-2.0
repository-code: "https://github.com/singhpratech/grit-datatype"
url: "https://github.com/singhpratech/grit-datatype"
keywords:
  - quantization
  - block-scaled
  - microscaling
  - mxfp4
  - numeric-contract
  - interchange-format
  - conformance
  - reduced-precision
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "GRIT: A Checkable Interchange Type for Block-Scaled, Sparse, Reduced-Precision Tensors"
  authors:
    - family-names: "Singh"
      given-names: "Prateek"
  year: 2026
  doi: "10.5281/zenodo.21817716"
  url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21817716"