ApolloRaines/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-Parasite warn
The chat template was dropped from its base model, which changes behavior; glitch tokens that can silently corrupt ordinary input.
claims base: mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 · chat template: present · view on Hugging Face ↗
Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-22Weights battery2026-08-22Behavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-22 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics: no GPU, no download | complete 2026-08-2232,768-token embedding scanned · 194 undertrained · lineage consistent |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
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Findings
Scanned 2026-08-22 · published from a community scan.
medium Chat template dropped vs parent
mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 ships a chat template; this repo does not. Serving stacks will silently fall back to a generic template, changing behavior. (In our 296-model census, 78% of pure quantization re-releases changed or dropped the template.)
How to fixingot patch
Restore the parent's chat template in `tokenizer_config.json` — a pure metadata fix.
- Run `ingot patch <owner/model>` — the patch manifest carries the parent's template and applies it to a local copy's `tokenizer_config.json`.
- Or fix by hand: copy the `chat_template` value from the parent repo's `tokenizer_config.json` into this model's, and pin your serving stack to that file.
- If the drift was intentional (the author retrained on a new template), confirm that in the model card before "fixing" it — restoring the parent template on retrained weights changes behavior too.
medium Undertrained (glitch) token surface in vocabulary
Embedding-norm scan flagged 194 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median of 0.174), including 10 plain-ASCII strings that can appear in ordinary input as identifiers — e.g. "<0xFA>", "<0xFB>", "<0xFC>", "<0xFD>", "<0xFE>", "<0xFF>", "iNdEx", "febbra". In models where this class was tested behaviorally, such tokens silently rewrote user input into confident, schema-valid, wrong output. These are candidates from the weights alone; behavioral confirmation requires the behavioral battery.
How to fixruntime guardweight-level
Keep the affected token strings out of the model's input — the scan-derived runtime guard carries this model's exact blocklist.
- Fetch this model's guard artifact (`/api/v1/guard/<owner>/<model>`): the confirmed corrupting tokens and the low-norm candidate list, derived from the published scan.
- Screen inbound text with it (the `@ingotai/guard` package is a reference implementation) and route flagged records to a different model or human review — verbatim-copy tasks on flagged strings are the failure mode.
- The underlying cause is undertrained embeddings in the weights; a true fix is weight-level (continued pretraining on the affected tokens) — that is not a patch, it's a training job.
info Weights consistent with claimed parent mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3
Mean cosine similarity of 64 sampled token-embedding rows against mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 is 0.969 — the weights plausibly descend from the declared base (relation: unspecified).
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Fix it
Some findings are metadata-level and patchable — apply the fixes to your local copy (your weights never leave your machine):
npx @ingotai/scan patch ApolloRaines/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-Parasite
Remediation guidance addresses the documented findings only. It is evidence-driven repair, not a safety certification of the model.
Fingerprint
The durable profile of this model: measured weights-and-metadata facts, rebuilt on every scan and battery run. Updated 2026-08-22.
| architecture | mistral · 32 layers · 4096-dim |
| parameters | 7248.0M |
| vocabulary | 32,768 tokens |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| serialization | safetensors + gguf |
| chat template | none |
| claimed lineage | mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 |
| lineage verified | consistent vs mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 — embedding-row cosine 0.969 |
| glitch-token surface | 194 undertrained candidates, 10 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | MistralForCausalLM |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 12 |
| revision | e3483e4a13e0 |
| HF snapshot | 358 downloads · 0 likes · updated 2026-08-04 · captured 2026-08-21 |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 32,768×4096 |
| embedding norms | median 0.1741 · mean 0.1678 |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 0.9687 over 64 sampled rows vs mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 |
| glitch-token samples | "<0xFA>", "<0xFB>", "<0xFC>", "<0xFD>", "<0xFE>", "<0xFF>", "iNdEx", "febbra", "NdEx", "uitgen" |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-21 05:32 | 2m | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-21 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 32,768×4096 |
| glitch surface | 194 undertrained, 10 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 0.9687 over 64 rows vs mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 |
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