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+ ChessQueries / ChessQ Lite model weights
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+ Required Notice: Copyright (c) 2026 Joël Seytre.
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+ The fine-tuned ChessQueries model weights are distributed under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.
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+ DINOv2: Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
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  ---
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  license: other
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  license_name: polyform-noncommercial-license-1.0.0
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- license_link: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0
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  library_name: chessqueries
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  tags:
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  - chess
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  - arxiv:2608.30762
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  ---
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- # ChessQueries model weights
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- **Resources:** [Demo](https://chessq.org) ·
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- [Paper [arXiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30762) ·
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- [Code [GitHub]](https://github.com/JSeytre/chessqueries) ·
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- [SLCC dataset annotations [HuggingFace]](https://huggingface.co/datasets/joelseytre/slcc)
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- [Try it online](https://chessq.org). The website uses a ChessQueries model further
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- trained on proprietary data.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  ![ChessQueries predictions across four chessboard datasets](figure-1-hero.jpg)
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- *ChessQueries can handle four datasets with various challenges.*
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-
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- Release weights for ChessQueries, a real-life chessboard recognizer using a
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- DINOv2 ViT-L/14 encoder and a square-query decoder. The model takes
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- 644 × 644 inputs and was jointly trained on ChessReD, ChessCog, and SLCC.
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-
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- ## Files
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-
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- - `chessqueries-vitl-644-safetensors-fp16-r1.safetensors` — CUDA/web deployment
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- weights (743.35 MB), FP16 weights/input/logits; SHA-256
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- `45edb69bf156f94299256fc51d1c75805f1de745ecfe34dc0615ef21265ab506`.
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- - `chessqueries-vitL14-644-joint.safetensors` — FP32 source/reference, tensor-only
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- inference weights; SHA-256
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- `6151bdd98fbe25f32080c097eba7ae75808b5615160e4867240931085fc762e5`.
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- - `chessqueries-vitL14-644-joint.ckpt` — original full PyTorch Lightning
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- checkpoint; SHA-256
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- `958e30d0a982873cfaef7fd3267489c8e554a8b2e75a9fb8441a511cd5a0ff18`.
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- - `chessquerieslite-vits-644-fp32.onnx` — ViT-S/14 at 644 × 644,
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- FP32 ONNX (127.57 MB).
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- - `chessquerieslite-vits-644-int8.onnx` — the same ViT-S/14 model,
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- INT8 ONNX (36.03 MB).
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-
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- - `chessquerieslite-vits-644-coreml-fp16-r2.mlpackage.zip` — dedicated iOS
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- Lite Core ML package (62.47 MB), applied EXIF orientation and float32 tensor I/O;
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- SHA-256 `e01695f8adb0de7216bb1aae3a20ac2bb2f988a6c269a430181440e5d6f3292f`.
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- The FP16 [release manifest](chessqueries-vitl-644-safetensors-fp16-r1.json) pins its immutable download and preprocessing;
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- its [synthetic CUDA reference](chessqueries-vitl-644-safetensors-fp16-r1-reference.json) provides a numerical integration check.
 
 
 
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- ## FP16 validation
 
 
 
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- The ViT-L FP16 artifact was reloaded and compared with the released FP32 source
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- on all 3,196 test boards: ChessReD 2,129, ChessCog 342, SLCC 373 and CVChess 352.
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- All 204,544 square predictions matched; exact-board accuracies were unchanged
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- (99.624%, 98.538%, 87.668% and 87.216%, respectively). Both models ran at batch
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- one on an RTX 4090 with PyTorch 2.8.0, timm 1.0.27 and TF32 disabled. This
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- validates this artifact/runtime combination, not every backend or future export.
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- ## Deployment selection
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- CUDA/web serving selects ViT-L FP16 weights, targeting roughly 20 ms per warm
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- batch-one model inference on an RTX 4090. Use an FP16-aware ChessQueries loader:
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- older packages support only FP32. Preserve float32 RGB decode, bilinear
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- antialiased resize and ImageNet normalization, then cast to FP16 immediately
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- before inference. Safetensors serving ignores EXIF orientation. The dedicated
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- iOS Core ML package applies orientation and has its own preprocessing contract.
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- iOS selects the dedicated Core ML export. Device-specific goals are around
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- 100 ms on a powerful iPhone and 400–500 ms on a less powerful iPhone; validate
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- the exact export on the target phone. Android runtime selection is deferred.
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- The best existing Pixel 9 Pro result is about 629–633 ms with LiteRT FP16 CPU,
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- but a common-workload CPU FP16/INT8 comparison and complete device validation
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- remain necessary. These timing scopes differ and are not a cross-platform benchmark.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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- New releases follow these deployment choices. FP32 source/reference checkpoints
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- and existing published artifacts remain available; new FP32 companions are not
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- required for every deployment release.
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- Setup, inference, evaluation, and reproduction instructions are in the
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- [code repository](https://github.com/JSeytre/chessqueries).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  ## Citation
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  ```bibtex
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  @misc{seytre2026chessqueries,
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- title = {ChessQueries: Toward Better Chess Board Recognition},
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- author = {Seytre, Jo{\"e}l},
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- year = {2026},
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- eprint = {2608.30762},
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  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
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- primaryClass = {cs.CV},
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- doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2608.30762},
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- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30762}
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  }
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  ```
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-
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- ## License
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-
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- The ChessQueries model weights are licensed under the
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- [PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0](https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0).
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- They may be used, modified, and redistributed for permitted noncommercial
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- purposes; commercial use is not licensed. Third-party components, including the
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- DINOv2 encoder, remain subject to their respective upstream terms.
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-
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- ## Contact
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-
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- Questions and enquiries: contact "at" chessq.org
 
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  ---
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  license: other
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  license_name: polyform-noncommercial-license-1.0.0
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+ license_link: LICENSE
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  library_name: chessqueries
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  tags:
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  - chess
 
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  - arxiv:2608.30762
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  ---
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+ # ChessQueries paper model weights
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+ [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30762) · [Code](https://github.com/JSeytre/chessqueries) ·
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+ [Demo](https://chessq.org) · [SLCC annotations](https://huggingface.co/datasets/joelseytre/slcc)
 
 
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+ These are selected original paper checkpoints for recognizing a chess position
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+ from a photograph. Each model uses a DINOv2 encoder, square-query decoder and
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+ 644 × 644 RGB input. Outputs describe piece placement; side to move, castling
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+ rights and other game-history fields are not inferred.
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+
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+ Newer **ChessQ Lite** ViT-S releases, starting with V4, are published separately
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+ at [joelseytre/chessq-lite](https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/chessq-lite).
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+ The [online demo](https://chessq.org) also offers newer models trained on
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+ additional private data. The weights below remain the paper models.
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  ![ChessQueries predictions across four chessboard datasets](figure-1-hero.jpg)
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+ ## Recommended downloads
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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+ | Paper model | FP16 safetensors file | Download size | Manifest |
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+ | --- | --- | ---: | --- |
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+ | ViT-L | `chessqueries-vitl-644-safetensors-fp16-r1.safetensors` | 743.35 MB | [JSON](chessqueries-vitl-644-safetensors-fp16-r1.json) |
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+ | ViT-B | `chessqueries-vitb-644-safetensors-fp16-r1.safetensors` | 248.95 MB | [JSON](chessqueries-vitb-644-safetensors-fp16-r1.json) |
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+ | ViT-S | `chessquerieslite-vits-644-safetensors-fp16-r1.safetensors` | 63.15 MB | [JSON](chessquerieslite-vits-644-safetensors-fp16-r1.json) |
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+ Each manifest gives an immutable artifact URL, exact bytes, SHA-256, architecture,
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+ preprocessing and output contract. This is one selected checkpoint per
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+ architecture, not every paper training seed. ViT-B uses original seed 1; ViT-S
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+ uses original seed 2.
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+ ## Quick start
 
 
 
 
 
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+ Use Python 3.12 and this tested public package revision:
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+ ```sh
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+ python3.12 -m venv .venv
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+ . .venv/bin/activate
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+ python -m pip install "git+https://github.com/JSeytre/chessqueries.git@63839c8886ce65be1de2acf7d29d5a6f23dd210a"
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+ chessqueries-predict photo.jpg
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+ ```
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+ The first prediction downloads and verifies the 743 MB ViT-L FP16 checkpoint.
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+ CUDA runs in FP16. CPU uses the same download with FP32 arithmetic. Preprocessing
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+ remains FP32 on both paths. The default batch size is one; `--device cpu` forces
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+ CPU execution. CPU upcasting does not restore the original FP32 weight precision.
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+ To select ViT-B, download through its pinned manifest and run it on your photo:
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+ ```python
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+ from pathlib import Path
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+ from urllib.request import urlopen, urlretrieve
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+ from chessqueries.contracts.inference import verify_artifact
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+ from chessqueries.contracts.models import ModelManifest
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+ from chessqueries.models.predictor import Predictor
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+ release = "chessqueries-vitb-644-safetensors-fp16-r1"
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+ revision = "5d29dfc5b289a31c80018154c797ebe4f0713321"
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+ url = f"https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/chessqueries/resolve/{revision}/{release}.json"
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+ with urlopen(url) as response:
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+ manifest = ModelManifest.model_validate_json(response.read())
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+ artifact = Path(manifest.artifact.filename)
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+ urlretrieve(str(manifest.artifact.url), artifact)
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+ verify_artifact(artifact, manifest)
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+ prediction = Predictor.from_checkpoint(artifact).predict(["photo.jpg"])[0]
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+ print(prediction.fen)
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+ ```
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+ For ViT-S, set `release = "chessquerieslite-vits-644-safetensors-fp16-r1"`.
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+ For ViT-L, set `release = "chessqueries-vitl-644-safetensors-fp16-r1"`.
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+ Once downloaded, all three can also use:
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+ ```sh
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+ chessqueries-predict photo.jpg --checkpoint /path/to/model.safetensors
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+ ```
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+
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+ The portable CPU predictor is distinct from the strict manifest-bound serving
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+ adapter. These FP16 manifests declare the validated `pytorch-cuda` runtime;
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+ `ReleasePredictor` enforces that declaration and does not silently fall back.
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+
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+ ## Preprocessing and validation
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+
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+ Decode RGB, ignore EXIF orientation for these safetensors releases, resize to
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+ 644 × 644 using float32 bilinear antialiasing without crop/padding, and normalize
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+ with ImageNet mean/std. Cast to FP16 only before CUDA inference. The package
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+ implements this contract; native/browser image resizing needs its own parity
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+ checks. Logits are `[1, 64, 13]`, in a8-to-h1 order with classes
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+ `. P N B R Q K p n b r q k`.
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+ The published FP16 CUDA conversions were compared with their original FP32
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+ sources on 3,196 images across ChessReD, ChessCog, SLCC and CVChess. ViT-L matched
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+ all square labels. ViT-B changed seven square predictions and ViT-S changed one,
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+ with no decrease in exact-board accuracy in any domain. They are not numerically
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+ identical to their FP32 sources. Synthetic references and B/S validation summaries
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+ accompany the manifests. These results do not establish accuracy or performance
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+ for every backend, browser or phone.
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+
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+ ## Legacy and reference downloads
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+
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+ The original `chessqueries-vitL14-644-joint.safetensors` (1.49 GB) remains at its
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+ existing URL for older clients and full-precision reference comparisons.
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+ SHA-256: `6151bdd98fbe25f32080c097eba7ae75808b5615160e4867240931085fc762e5`.
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+
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+ Older deployment exports and the full training checkpoint remain available at
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+ immutable historical revisions. They are outside the recommended file list:
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+
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+ - [Paper ViT-S ONNX FP32](https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/chessqueries/resolve/a8a5cbadbcb38d4a6864c72ef9322f6b87de4508/chessquerieslite-vits-644-fp32.onnx), 127.57 MB;
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+ SHA-256 `c085f7060ce848c33389ca6e90db5b1d7e41d56fc0566f5a1e4c96cf1460f897`.
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+ - [Paper ViT-S ONNX INT8](https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/chessqueries/resolve/a8a5cbadbcb38d4a6864c72ef9322f6b87de4508/chessquerieslite-vits-644-int8.onnx), 36.03 MB;
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+ SHA-256 `1c7b2968263b9a51b4405f4cad8228a81283fdc458031f13f0c53fa2c147c402`.
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+ - [Paper ViT-S Core ML FP16 r2](https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/chessqueries/resolve/4929cd255442cc5eb3f770f9ac28c93a4ebf4747/chessquerieslite-vits-644-coreml-fp16-r2.mlpackage.zip), 62.47 MB;
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+ SHA-256 `e01695f8adb0de7216bb1aae3a20ac2bb2f988a6c269a430181440e5d6f3292f`.
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+ - [Original ViT-L Lightning training checkpoint](https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/chessqueries/resolve/5d29dfc5b289a31c80018154c797ebe4f0713321/chessqueries-vitL14-644-joint.ckpt), 4.46 GB;
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+ SHA-256 `958e30d0a982873cfaef7fd3267489c8e554a8b2e75a9fb8441a511cd5a0ff18`.
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+
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+ [Legacy manifests](legacy/) describe the ONNX and Core ML interfaces. The Core ML
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+ package applies EXIF orientation; it does not share the safetensors orientation
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+ policy. These legacy exports are paper models, not ChessQ Lite V4.
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Weights are available under [PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0](LICENSE). Commercial
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+ use requires separate permission. Keep the license and required notices with
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+ redistributed copies and conversions. Third-party components, including DINOv2,
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+ retain their upstream terms; see [third-party notices](NOTICE).
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+
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+ For questions about licensing, reach out to 'contact "at" chessq.org'.
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  ## Citation
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  ```bibtex
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  @misc{seytre2026chessqueries,
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+ title = {ChessQueries: Toward Better Chess Board Recognition},
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+ author = {Seytre, Jo{\"e}l},
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+ year = {2026},
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+ eprint = {2608.30762},
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  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
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+ primaryClass = {cs.CV},
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+ url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30762}
 
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  }
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