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loader(safetensors): HfConfigExtractor + TransformerWeightsSafetensors for dense LLMs #166

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Builds on #154 (safetensors binary parser foundation). Adds the HuggingFace config extractor + dense-LLM safetensors loader, enabling load of TinyLlama, Mistral, Phi-3, Qwen 2.5 family checkpoints.

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Proposed scope

  • src/DotLLM.Models/SafeTensors/HfConfigExtractor.cs — parse HF config.json into ModelConfig (hidden size, layer count, RoPE config, vocab size, …).
  • src/DotLLM.Models/Architectures/TransformerWeightsSafetensors.cs — load weights from a SafetensorsFile into TransformerWeights (GQA-aware, fused-QKV-aware).
  • src/DotLLM.Models/ModelLoader.cs — LoadFromSafetensors(path, ModelConfig) entry point.
  • TinyLlama-1.1B integration test (gated on fixture availability).

What lands in follow-up PRs (not this one)

  • Multi-shard model.safetensors.index.json support (one PR).
  • Per-architecture loaders: Phi-3 fused-qkv/gate_up split, Mixtral MoE, Qwen-MoE, DeepSeek-V2/V3.
  • SmolLM3 / Gemma3 / Granite extensions.

Acceptance criteria

  • HfConfigExtractor correctly populates ModelConfig for Llama / Mistral / Phi / Qwen architectures.
  • TransformerWeightsSafetensors loads weights for a dense GQA Llama-class model end-to-end.
  • ModelLoader.LoadFromSafetensors returns a usable model that generates a first token.
  • Integration test exercises the load + first-token generation path.

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