---
name: undominated-bitnet-ternary-weight-audit
description: "Audits BitNet b1.58 ternary weight representation and addition-only kernel energy reduction factors. Recomputed fields must match the other inputs. A pass is not a compliance, safety, or price verdict."
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Undominated.ai
  version: "1.1.0"
---

# BitNet ternary weight audit

## Description
Audits BitNet b1.58 ternary weight representation and addition-only kernel energy reduction factors.

## Category
`serving`

## Tags
`serving`, `bitnet`, `ternary`, `energy`, `quantization`

## When to Use
Audit BitNet b1.58 model deployments to verify energy efficiency gains and multiplication-free kernel throughput.

## Operational Limitations
Evaluates observed energy reduction factors; does not synthesize CUDA assembly directly.

## Verification Script
Run the deterministic verification checker:
```bash
python3 scripts/check.py examples/synthetic.json
```
Exit codes:
- `0`: Check passed and thresholds satisfied.
- `1`: Threshold breach or operational violation detected.
- `2`: Schema error or invalid usage.

## What the checker recomputes

- `factor` = 1 * baseline_fp16_energy_joules / gemm_energy_joules, then the original `<` check against `target_energy_reduction_factor`. `baseline_fp16_energy_joules` cannot exceed `gemm_energy_joules`.

Every other declared field is type-checked. A negative value is rejected except for deltas, drifts, and gains. A type check does not, by itself, prove the measurement.

`population` and `observedAt` are required. The bundled examples are synthetic fixtures, not market measurements.

```bash
python3 scripts/check.py examples/synthetic.json
python3 scripts/check.py examples/contradiction.json
python3 scripts/check.py examples/broken.json
```

Exit 0 is a pass, exit 1 is a review, and exit 2 is invalid input. A pass does not certify a provider, a regulation, a release, or a price.