@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
     "CausalLMConfig",
     "CausalLMTask",
     "ComponentInfo",
+    "SharedWeightEndpoint",
+    "SharedWeightInfo",
     "ComponentExportDisposition",
     "ComponentExportReport",
     "DepthAnythingConfig",
@@ -113,7 +115,12 @@
 from mobius._constants import OPSET_VERSION
 from mobius._execution_providers import EpCapabilities, ep_registry, get_ep, register_ep
 from mobius._export_report import ComponentExportDisposition, ComponentExportReport
-from mobius._inspect import ComponentInfo, inspect_components
+from mobius._inspect import (
+    ComponentInfo,
+    SharedWeightEndpoint,
+    SharedWeightInfo,
+    inspect_components,
+)
 from mobius._model_package import ModelPackage
 from mobius._optimizations import optimize_model
 from mobius._registry import (
 
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 __all__ = [
     "ComponentDescriptor",
     "ComponentManifest",
+    "SharedWeightEndpoint",
+    "SharedWeightInfo",
     "get_hf_component_sources",
     "resolve_component_manifest",
 ]
@@ -20,6 +22,61 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     pass
 
+_INPUT_EMBEDDING_MODULE_NAMES = {
+    "codec_embedding",
+    "embed_tokens",
+    "shared",
+    "text_embedding",
+    "tok_embeddings",
+}
+_OUTPUT_HEAD_MODULE_NAMES = {
+    "codec_head",
+    "lm_head",
+    "output",
+    "output_projection",
+    "proj_out",
+}
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class SharedWeightEndpoint:
+    """One component-local consumer of a shared HuggingFace parameter."""
+
+    component: str
+    parameter: str
+
+    def __post_init__(self) -> None:
+        if not self.component:
+            raise ValueError("shared-weight component must not be empty")
+        if not self.parameter:
+            raise ValueError("shared-weight parameter must not be empty")
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class SharedWeightInfo:
+    """A logical HuggingFace parameter consumed by multiple components."""
+
+    name: str
+    canonical: SharedWeightEndpoint
+    aliases: tuple[SharedWeightEndpoint, ...]
+    kind: str = "parameter_alias"
+
+    def __post_init__(self) -> None:
+        if not self.name:
+            raise ValueError("shared-weight name must not be empty")
+        if not self.kind:
+            raise ValueError(f"shared weight {self.name!r} kind must not be empty")
+        if not self.aliases:
+            raise ValueError(f"shared weight {self.name!r} must declare at least one alias")
+        endpoints = (self.canonical, *self.aliases)
+        if len(set(endpoints)) != len(endpoints):
+            raise ValueError(f"shared weight {self.name!r} contains duplicate endpoints")
+
+    @property
+    def endpoints(self) -> tuple[SharedWeightEndpoint, ...]:
+        """Canonical endpoint followed by every alias."""
+        return (self.canonical, *self.aliases)
+
 
 @dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
 class ComponentDescriptor:
@@ -106,6 +163,7 @@ class ComponentManifest(Mapping[str, ComponentDescriptor]):
     """Ordered, immutable component metadata keyed by package component name."""
 
     components: tuple[ComponentDescriptor, ...]
+    shared_weights: tuple[SharedWeightInfo, ...] = ()
     _by_name: Mapping[str, ComponentDescriptor] = dataclasses.field(
         init=False,
         repr=False,
@@ -120,6 +178,30 @@ def __post_init__(self) -> None:
                     f"component manifest declares {component.name!r} more than once"
                 )
             by_name[component.name] = component
+        shared_names: set[str] = set()
+        for shared_weight in self.shared_weights:
+            if shared_weight.name in shared_names:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"shared weight {shared_weight.name!r} is declared more than once"
+                )
+            shared_names.add(shared_weight.name)
+            for endpoint in shared_weight.endpoints:
+                if endpoint.component not in by_name:
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"shared weight {shared_weight.name!r} references unknown "
+                        f"component {endpoint.component!r}"
+                    )
+                source_paths = by_name[endpoint.component].source_paths
+                module_path = endpoint.parameter.rpartition(".")[0]
+                if source_paths and not any(
+                    module_path == source_path or module_path.startswith(f"{source_path}.")
+                    for source_path in source_paths
+                ):
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"shared weight {shared_weight.name!r} parameter "
+                        f"{endpoint.parameter!r} is outside component "
+                        f"{endpoint.component!r} source paths {source_paths!r}"
+                    )
         object.__setattr__(self, "_by_name", MappingProxyType(by_name))
 
     def __getitem__(self, name: str) -> ComponentDescriptor:
@@ -154,6 +236,93 @@ def get_hf_component_sources(
     return {name: tuple(paths) for name, paths in resolved.items()}
 
 
+def _config_ties_word_embeddings(hf_config: object) -> bool:
+    """Honor text-config precedence, except for an explicit quantized tie."""
+
+    def field(value: object, name: str) -> object | None:
+        if isinstance(value, Mapping):
+            return value.get(name)
+        return getattr(value, name, None)
+
+    configs = (
+        hf_config,
+        field(hf_config, "text_config"),
+        field(hf_config, "llm_config"),
+        field(hf_config, "language_config"),
+    )
+    if any(
+        bool(field(declaration, "tie_word_embeddings"))
+        for config in configs
+        if config is not None
+        for declaration in (
+            field(config, "quantization_config"),
+            field(config, "quantization"),
+        )
+        if declaration is not None
+    ):
+        return True
+    text_config = next((config for config in configs[1:] if config is not None), None)
+    for config in (text_config, hf_config):
+        if config is None:
+            continue
+        for name in ("tie_word_embeddings", "weight_tying"):
+            value = field(config, name)
+            if value is not None:
+                return bool(value)
+    return False
+
+
+def _aliased_component_endpoint(
+    manifest: ComponentManifest,
+    *,
+    role: str,
+    local_names: set[str],
+) -> SharedWeightEndpoint | None:
+    """Resolve one explicitly aliased source module for a component role."""
+    candidates = {
+        SharedWeightEndpoint(
+            component=component.name,
+            parameter=f"{source_path}.weight",
+        )
+        for component in manifest.values()
+        if component.role == role
+        for local_path, source_path in component.source_path_aliases
+        if local_path.rsplit(".", 1)[-1] in local_names
+    }
+    if len(candidates) != 1:
+        return None
+    return candidates.pop()
+
+
+def _infer_shared_weights(
+    hf_config: object,
+    manifest: ComponentManifest,
+) -> tuple[SharedWeightInfo, ...]:
+    """Infer tied embeddings only for explicit, unique component source aliases."""
+    if not _config_ties_word_embeddings(hf_config):
+        return ()
+    canonical = _aliased_component_endpoint(
+        manifest,
+        role="embedding",
+        local_names=_INPUT_EMBEDDING_MODULE_NAMES,
+    )
+    output = _aliased_component_endpoint(
+        manifest,
+        role="decoder",
+        local_names=_OUTPUT_HEAD_MODULE_NAMES,
+    )
+    if canonical is None or output is None or canonical.component == output.component:
+        return ()
+    return (
+        SharedWeightInfo(
+            name="word_embeddings",
+            kind="tied_word_embeddings",
+            canonical=canonical,
+            aliases=(output,),
+        ),
+    )
+
+
 def resolve_component_manifest(
     task: object,
     *,
@@ -198,4 +367,10 @@ def resolve_component_manifest(
         )
         for name in ordered_names
     )
-    return ComponentManifest(descriptors)
+    manifest = ComponentManifest(descriptors)
+    return ComponentManifest(
+        descriptors,
+        shared_weights=_infer_shared_weights(hf_config, manifest)
+        if hf_config is not None
+        else (),
+    )
@@ -16,11 +16,18 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__all__ = ["ComponentInfo", "inspect_components"]
+__all__ = [
+    "ComponentInfo",
+    "SharedWeightEndpoint",
+    "SharedWeightInfo",
+    "inspect_components",
+]
 
 import dataclasses
 import logging
 
+from mobius._component_manifest import SharedWeightEndpoint, SharedWeightInfo
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -45,11 +52,17 @@ class ComponentInfo:
             tuple. Empty when the component is the whole model or the layout is
             unknown. Tools such as Olive use these to optimize a submodule in
             place before exporting the full model.
+        shared_weights: Cross-component shared parameters involving this
+            component. The same immutable declaration is attached to every
+            participating component. Automatic inference requires an
+            unambiguous embedding/head pair with explicit source-path aliases;
+            source paths alone do not establish weight sharing.
     """
 
     name: str
     role: str
     source_paths: tuple[str, ...] = ()
+    shared_weights: tuple[SharedWeightInfo, ...] = ()
 
 
 def _resolve_task_model_type_and_config(
@@ -158,12 +171,22 @@ def inspect_components(
         model_type=model_type,
         hf_config=hf_config,
     )
+    shared_weights = manifest.shared_weights
+    shared_by_component = {
+        name: tuple(
+            shared_weight
+            for shared_weight in shared_weights
+            if any(endpoint.component == name for endpoint in shared_weight.endpoints)
+        )
+        for name in manifest
+    }
 
     components = [
         ComponentInfo(
             name=component.name,
             role=component.role,
             source_paths=component.source_paths,
+            shared_weights=shared_by_component[component.name],
         )
         for component in manifest.values()
     ]