The following are the highlights of the model-file format:

• It is lightweight and has very few software dependencies. 
• It supports quantization.
  • This format is FlatBuffer-based and, hence, increases the speed of execution. FlatBuffer is an open source project by Google, originally designed for video games.
• FlatBuffer is a cross-platform serialization library and is similar to protocol buffers.
• This format is more memory-efficient as it does not need a parsing/unpacking step to perform a secondary representation prior to data access. There is no marshaling step and, hence, it uses less code.