LocalAI-io/LocalAI-functioncall-phi-4-v0.3 warn
Weights only ship in a format that can run code when loaded; its license differs from its base model's; glitch tokens that can silently corrupt ordinary input.
claims base: unsloth/phi-4-unsloth-bnb-4bit · chat template: present · view on Hugging Face ↗
Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-26Weights battery2026-08-26Behavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-26 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics — no GPU, no download | complete 2026-08-26100,352-token embedding scanned · 110 undertrained · lineage consistent · pickle audit clean |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
Ingot runs three batteries against a model. What each one checks →
Findings
Scanned 2026-08-26 · published from a community scan.
medium Pickle-serialized weights, no safetensors
Weights ship only as pickle-based files (pytorch_model-00001-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00006.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.
- Do not load the pickle files in-process — pickle deserialization executes arbitrary code from the file.
- 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.
- Pin the exact revision hash you converted from, and load only your converted safetensors artifact from then on.
medium License differs from claimed parent (apache-2.0 vs mit)
This model declares apache-2.0 while its claimed base unsloth/phi-4-unsloth-bnb-4bit declares mit. Verify the re-license is permitted before commercial use.
How to fix
Verify the re-license is actually permitted before relying on it.
- Read the parent's license for derivative-work and re-licensing terms — many open-weight licenses (e.g. Llama-family) do not permit arbitrary re-licensing.
- If the re-license is not permitted, the parent's terms govern your use regardless of what this repo declares.
medium Undertrained (glitch) token surface in vocabulary
Embedding-norm scan flagged 110 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median of 1.146), including 85 plain-ASCII strings that can appear in ordinary input as identifiers — e.g. "useRalative", "useRal", "ForCanBeConvertedToF", "webElementX", "ForCanBeConverted", "PostalCodesNL", "Hexatrigesimal", "externalActionCode". 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 Pickle static analysis clean
Opcode-level parse of pytorch_model-00001-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00004-of-00006.bin (no code executed) found only standard serialization globals (3 distinct, all torch/collections/numpy). Pickle remains an executable format — this verifies the current bytes, not future uploads; prefer a safetensors release.
info Weights consistent with claimed parent unsloth/phi-4-unsloth-bnb-4bit
Mean cosine similarity of 64 sampled token-embedding rows against unsloth/phi-4-unsloth-bnb-4bit 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 2026-08-26.
| architecture | llama · 40 layers · 5120-dim |
| vocabulary | 100,352 tokens |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| serialization | no safetensors pickle |
| chat template | present · sha256:fe4120415a3858b8 |
| claimed lineage | unsloth/phi-4-unsloth-bnb-4bit |
| lineage verified | consistent vs unsloth/phi-4-unsloth-bnb-4bit — embedding-row cosine 1.000 |
| glitch-token surface | 110 undertrained candidates, 85 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | LlamaForCausalLM |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 16 — pickle: pytorch_model-00001-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00004-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00005-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00006-of-00006.bin |
| revision | 3a802ae23f21 |
| HF snapshot | 64 downloads · 10 likes · updated 2025-02-08 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| pickle audit | pytorch_model-00001-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00006.bin, pytorch_model-00004-of-00006.bin — 3 standard global(s) |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 100,352×5120 |
| embedding norms | median 1.1463 · mean 1.1121 |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 1 over 64 sampled rows vs unsloth/phi-4-unsloth-bnb-4bit |
| glitch-token samples | "useRalative", "useRal", "ForCanBeConvertedToF", "webElementX", "ForCanBeConverted", "PostalCodesNL", "Hexatrigesimal", "externalActionCode", "davidjl", "artisanlib", ".bunifuFlatButton", "thuisontvangst" |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-25 21:57 | 2m | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-25 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, zero-template-token-scan, pickle-static-analysis, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 100,352×5120 |
| glitch surface | 110 undertrained, 85 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 1 over 64 rows vs unsloth/phi-4-unsloth-bnb-4bit |
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