An MNF stream typically starts with a header to define versioning and compression.
Protocol Buffers (schema + binary): best for strict schema and versioning. Define .proto with fields and use generated serializers. mnf encode
The Minimum Noise Fraction (MNF) transform is a specialized technique designed to reorder data components based on their signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). While techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) order components by variance (assuming high variance equals high information), they often fail in data where high-variance components are primarily noise. An MNF stream typically starts with a header