Output:/output/policy — [batch, 1858] float32, already in
move-vocabulary order, so no policy map is needed
Output:/output/wdl — [batch, 3] float32, a distribution summing to 1
Verified for all nine: from the starting position Maia-1500 ranks
e2e4 (13.1) > d2d4 (12.1) > c2c4 (10.0), and WDL reads
[0.50, 0.04, 0.46].
The older maia-<elo>-opset15.onnx files are mis-converted and should not be
used. They return a saturated WDL ([1, 0, 0]) and policy logits in the
hundreds of thousands, and they do so even for an all-zeros input — their
highest-scoring outputs correspond to moves that are not legal in the position.
They are kept only so existing links do not 404.
File
ELO
Description
maia-1100.onnx
1100
Beginner-level human play
maia-1200.onnx
1200
Beginner human play
maia-1300.onnx
1300
Casual human play
maia-1400.onnx
1400
Casual-intermediate
maia-1500.onnx
1500
Intermediate human play
maia-1600.onnx
1600
Intermediate-advanced
maia-1700.onnx
1700
Advanced human play
maia-1800.onnx
1800
Strong club player
maia-1900.onnx
1900
Strong human play
Source
maia-<elo>.onnx: converted from the original
CSSLab/maia-chessmaia_weights/maia-<elo>.pb.gz
with lc0 v0.32.1:
maia-<elo>-opset15.onnx (deprecated): from
shermansiu/maia-* (opset 17), via
onnx.version_converter.convert_version(model, 15) — this is the step that
produced the broken outputs described above.
This repository declared license: other, which obscured a copyleft
obligation. The upstream weights,
shermansiu/maia-1100, are
GPL-3.0-or-later, as is the original source they came from,
CSSLab/maia-chess (its LICENSE is
GPL-3.0 and its README states "The software is available under the GPL
License"). Converting them to ONNX does not relicense them, and neither does
re-exporting them with lc0.
GPL-3.0 is viral: anything you distribute that incorporates these weights must
itself be offered under GPL-3.0-or-later, with the corresponding source made
available. That obligation travels with the file and is a good deal more
consequential than a vague other tag suggests, which is why it is stated
plainly here.