diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/ConstantOperationsConverter.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/ConstantOperationsConverter.kt
index 61318dbb..8e3c1933 100644
--- a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/ConstantOperationsConverter.kt
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/ConstantOperationsConverter.kt
@@ -348,9 +348,20 @@ public class ConstantOperationsConverter : StableHloOperationConverter {
      *   1D [3]:  dense<[v0, v1, v2]>
      *   2D [2,3]: dense<[[v0,v1,v2],[v3,v4,v5]]>
      *   4D [1,3,1,1]: dense<[[[[v0],[v1],[v2]]]]>
+     *
+     * Splat collapse: when every element is the same value and the input
+     * list fully covers the shape, emit the single-scalar splat form
+     * (`dense<v>` ≡ `dense<[[v, v, ...], ...]>` for any rank). This is the
+     * first-pass lever against the 151 MB MLIR-text blowup described in
+     * #519 — uninitialized VoidTensorOps-backed weights are uniform by
+     * construction and compress from O(N*M) characters down to one.
      */
     private fun formatTensorValues(values: List<*>, outputSpec: TensorSpec?): String {
         val shape = outputSpec?.shape ?: emptyList()
+        val expectedSize = if (shape.isEmpty()) values.size else shape.fold(1) { acc, d -> acc * d }
+        if (values.isNotEmpty() && values.size >= expectedSize && values.toSet().size == 1) {
+            return formatConstantValue(values[0] as Number)
+        }
 
         return when {
             values.isEmpty() -> "0.0"
diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/ConstantOperationsConverterTest.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/ConstantOperationsConverterTest.kt
index 791da0d8..bb66876c 100644
--- a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/ConstantOperationsConverterTest.kt
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/ConstantOperationsConverterTest.kt
@@ -59,6 +59,76 @@ class ConstantOperationsConverterTest {
         assertTrue(module.content.contains("dense<2.0>"))
     }
     
+    @Test
+    fun testTensorConstantWithUniformValuesEmitsSplat() {
+        // Regression for #519: a uniform-value list (common for
+        // VoidTensorOps-initialized weights) must collapse to the
+        // dense<v> splat form rather than expanding into an N-element
+        // nested array literal. Without the fix, a 10x10 zero tensor
+        // renders as 100 floats in text; with it, one scalar.
+        val graph = DefaultComputeGraph()
+        val inputOp = InputOperation<DType, Any>()
+        val inputNode = GraphNode(
+            id = "in",
+            operation = inputOp,
+            inputs = emptyList(),
+            outputs = listOf(TensorSpec("x", listOf(10, 10), "FP32"))
+        )
+        val zeros = List(100) { 0.0f }
+        val weightOp = createConstantOperation(
+            "tensor_constant",
+            mapOf("values" to zeros)
+        )
+        val weightNode = GraphNode(
+            id = "w",
+            operation = weightOp,
+            inputs = emptyList(),
+            outputs = listOf(TensorSpec("w", listOf(10, 10), "FP32"))
+        )
+        graph.addNode(inputNode)
+        graph.addNode(weightNode)
+
+        val fullConverter = StableHloConverterFactory.createExtended()
+        val module = fullConverter.convert(graph, "test_uniform_splat")
+
+        assertTrue(
+            module.content.contains("dense<0.0>"),
+            "uniform-zero tensor must collapse to splat form, got:\n${module.content}"
+        )
+        // No spelled-out array for the uniform constant.
+        assertTrue(
+            !module.content.contains("dense<[[0.0, 0.0"),
+            "uniform splat must not also emit a nested array literal"
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun testTensorConstantWithNonUniformValuesKeepsNestedLiteral() {
+        // Opposite direction: when values differ, we must still spell
+        // them out — splat is only for uniform lists, not a blanket
+        // compression.
+        val graph = DefaultComputeGraph()
+        val weightOp = createConstantOperation(
+            "tensor_constant",
+            mapOf("values" to listOf(1.0f, 2.0f, 3.0f, 4.0f))
+        )
+        val weightNode = GraphNode(
+            id = "w",
+            operation = weightOp,
+            inputs = emptyList(),
+            outputs = listOf(TensorSpec("w", listOf(2, 2), "FP32"))
+        )
+        graph.addNode(weightNode)
+
+        val fullConverter = StableHloConverterFactory.createExtended()
+        val module = fullConverter.convert(graph, "test_non_uniform")
+
+        assertTrue(
+            module.content.contains("[[1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0]]"),
+            "non-uniform tensor must keep nested array literal, got:\n${module.content}"
+        )
+    }
+
     // Helper methods to create test graphs
     
     private fun createGraphWithInputAndConstant(): DefaultComputeGraph {