HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct pass
claims base: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct · chat template: present · view on Hugging Face ↗
Scan coverage
Ingot runs three batteries against a model. What each one checks →
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-22 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics — no GPU, no download | complete 2026-08-2249,280-token embedding scanned · 0 undertrained · lineage consistent |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
Findings
Scanned 2026-08-22 · published from a community scan.
info Embedding-norm glitch scan clean
No undertrained tokens found: every non-special token's embedding norm is above 0.3× the vocabulary median (3.540). The glitch-token data-corruption class has no candidate surface in this model.
info Weights consistent with claimed parent HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct
Mean cosine similarity of 64 sampled token-embedding rows against HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct is 1.000 — the weights plausibly descend from the declared base (relation: unspecified).
How to fix
Fix or verify the `base_model` declaration so lineage checks can run.
- If you own the repo: correct the `base_model` field in the model card metadata to the real, public parent.
- If you don't: identify the true parent (config architecture + weight shapes narrow it fast) and re-scan with that lineage in mind.
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 | smolvlm |
| parameters | 507.5M |
| vocabulary | 49,280 tokens |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| serialization | safetensors |
| chat template | present · sha256:830005085ddd94ce |
| claimed lineage | HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct |
| lineage verified | consistent vs HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct — embedding-row cosine 1.000 |
| glitch-token surface | clean no undertrained tokens |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | SmolVLMForConditionalGeneration |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | image-text-to-text |
| repo files | 38 |
| revision | 7b375e1b73b1 |
| HF snapshot | 1.5M downloads · 170 likes · updated 2025-04-08 · captured 2026-08-21 |
| embedding tensor | model.text_model.embed_tokens.weight · F32 · 49,280×960 |
| embedding norms | median 3.5399 · mean 3.6252 |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 0.9999 over 64 sampled rows vs HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct |
Battery runs
The run trace behind the findings above: every deep-battery job for this model, with what each run measured or why it failed. Findings are only as good as the runs that produced them.
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-21 07:42 | 26s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-21 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | model.text_model.embed_tokens.weight · F32 · 49,280×960 |
| glitch surface | 0 undertrained, 0 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 0.9999 over 64 rows vs HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct |
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