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Independent Artificial Intelligence Laboratory • Egypt

Technical Whitepaper & Architecture Explorer • Inaugural Foundation Release

AXIOM: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (79.43B) & ZAQERIS-M3 Vector Quantization

Formal architectural documentation, weight codebook specifications, and empirical validation report for the 79.43-billion-parameter AXIOM foundation model developed by the ZAQERIS AI research group in Egypt.

Total Parameters
79,425,295,488
12.39B Active per token
Layer Topology
36 Layers × 16 MoE
Top-2 SwiGLU Gating
Storage Footprint
29.20 GiB (31.36 GB)
3.158 bpp ZAQERIS-M3
Execution Target
Single 48GB GPU
RTX 6000 Ada / A100 / Hybrid

Decoder Block Topology

Inspect any of the 36 Pre-RMSNorm transformer layers.

Decoder Layer Index Layer 18 / 36
Backbone Dimension (d_model) 4224
Expert Intermediate (d_ff) 10496
Attention Heads 32 Q / 8 KV (GQA)
Head Dimension 128
Active Routing Gate Top-2 Softmax
Rotary Base Theta 5,000,000.0

MoE Expert Allocation (Layer 18)

16 physical SwiGLU feed-forward networks with dynamic Top-2 normalized routing.

Active Routing State: Expert #3 (58.4%) & Expert #11 (41.6%)
Top-2 normalized probability distribution activates 12.39B parameters per token pass.