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FermionResearch/Neutrino-0.6B warn

Weights only ship in a format that can run code when loaded; loading it runs custom code from the repo; the chat template differs from its base model, which changes behavior. Plus 1 minor note.

downloads 2.9klikes 11license apache-2.0arch trtc_v4updated 2026-07-31

claims base: Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B · chat template: present · view on Hugging Face ↗

Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-25Weights battery2026-08-25Behavioral batterynot rundetails
BatteryLooks atStatus
Static batteryMetadata & packagingcomplete 2026-08-25
Weights batteryWeights forensics — no GPU, no downloadcomplete 2026-08-25pickle audit clean
Behavioral batteryLive-inference differentialsnot run

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Findings

Scanned 2026-08-25 · published from a community scan.

medium Pickle-serialized weights, no safetensors

Weights ship only as pickle-based files (neutrino-0.6b_v4.bin). Loading pickle executes arbitrary code from the file — prefer a safetensors release or load in a sandbox.

How to fix

Convert the weights to safetensors before loading them anywhere that matters.

  1. Do not load the pickle files in-process — pickle deserialization executes arbitrary code from the file.
  2. Convert locally in a sandbox: `pip install safetensors` and use `safetensors.torch.save_file` on a state dict loaded with `torch.load(..., weights_only=True)` (refuses most code-execution payloads), or use Hugging Face's `convert.py` space/script.
  3. Pin the exact revision hash you converted from, and load only your converted safetensors artifact from then on.

medium Repo ships executable Python (trust_remote_code)

The repository contains custom code files that run in-process when loaded with trust_remote_code=True. Pin the revision hash and review the code before loading.

How to fix

Review and pin the custom code; never float on `main` with trust_remote_code=True.

  1. Read every `.py` file in the repo before first load — this code runs in your process.
  2. Pin the revision: `from_pretrained(model_id, revision="<commit sha>", trust_remote_code=True)` so a later push can't swap the code under you.
  3. Prefer a version of the architecture already in `transformers` if one exists, which removes the remote-code requirement entirely.

medium Chat template differs from claimed parent

The chat template does not match Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B's. Template drift silently changes model behavior even when weights are identical — 37% of drifted derivatives in our census left it undisclosed. Diff the templates before deploying.

How to fixingot patch

Restore the parent's chat template in `tokenizer_config.json` — a pure metadata fix.

  1. Run `ingot patch <owner/model>` — the patch manifest carries the parent's template and applies it to a local copy's `tokenizer_config.json`.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

info Pickle static analysis clean

Opcode-level parse of neutrino-0.6b_v4.bin (no code executed) found only standard serialization globals (0 distinct, all torch/collections/numpy). Pickle remains an executable format — this verifies the current bytes, not future uploads; prefer a safetensors release.

low Pickle checkpoint only partially analyzable

Static analysis could not fully parse: neutrino-0.6b_v4.bin: legacy parse stopped after 0 pickle(s): truncated pickle. Unparsed content is unverified.

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 FermionResearch/Neutrino-0.6B

Remediation guidance addresses the documented findings only. It is evidence-driven repair, not a safety certification of the model.

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architecturetrtc_v4
licenseapache-2.0
serializationgguf pickle custom code
chat templatepresent · sha256:60c6b3f7daa5b30f
claimed lineageQwen/Qwen3-0.6B
lineage verifiedunverified — weights battery pending
Full measured fingerprint
architecturesTrtcV4ForCausalLM
librarytransformers
pipelinetext-generation
repo files64 — pickle: neutrino-0.6b_v4.bin
revisionbec6e631d865
HF snapshot2.9k downloads · 11 likes · updated 2026-07-31 · captured 2026-08-25
pickle auditneutrino-0.6b_v4.bin0 standard global(s) · legacy (pre-1.6) format, head-scan only
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
batterystatusqueueddurationattempts
weightscomplete2026-08-25 21:466s1
weights run 2026-08-25 measurements
probes rungguf-metadata

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