NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-hf warn
No license declared — no usage rights by default; Special token id outside the vocabulary; glitch tokens that can silently corrupt ordinary input. Plus 1 minor note.
chat template: not found · view on Hugging Face ↗
Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-27Weights battery2026-08-25Behavioral batterycompletedetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-27 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics: no GPU, no download | complete 2026-08-2532,000-token embedding scanned · 132 undertrained |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | completefull differential battery (curated) |
Ingot runs three batteries against a model. What each one checks →
Findings
Scanned 2026-08-27 · published from a community scan.
medium No license declared
The model card declares no license. You have no usage rights by default — treat as all-rights-reserved until the owner clarifies.
How to fix
Get a license from the owner or pick a licensed alternative — this is a legal gap, not a technical one.
- With no declared license you have no usage rights by default; treat the weights as all-rights-reserved.
- Open an issue or discussion on the repo asking the owner to declare a license, or use the licensed upstream/parent model instead.
medium Special token id outside the vocabulary
pad_token_id=32000 is outside the declared vocab_size of 32000. Runtimes either crash on it or silently ignore the setting (e.g. pad_token_id: -1), which breaks batching and stop handling.
How to fixingot patch
Align the stop-token declarations — a pure metadata fix to `generation_config.json` (and `config.json`).
- Identify the token the chat template actually ends assistant turns with (e.g. `<|eot_id|>`, `<end_of_turn>`, `<|im_end|>`) and make sure its id is in `generation_config.json`'s `eos_token_id` list.
- Keep `config.json`'s `eos_token_id` consistent with (or a subset of) `generation_config.json`'s — runtimes differ in which file they read.
- For the pad-equals-EOS hazard: repoint `pad_token` at a dedicated padding token before fine-tuning; serving is unaffected.
- Until the repo is fixed, pass explicit stop tokens to your serving stack (e.g. vLLM `stop_token_ids`, llama.cpp `--override-kv tokenizer.ggml.eos_token_id`).
medium Undertrained (glitch) token surface in vocabulary
Embedding-norm scan flagged 132 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median of 1.100), including 14 plain-ASCII strings that can appear in ordinary input as identifiers — e.g. "<0xFE>", "<0xFF>", "<0xFB>", "<0xFC>", "<0xFD>", "<0xFA>", "Mediabestanden", "oreferrer". 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.
low Undertrained tokens present; echo probe skipped (no chat template)
133 undertrained tokens found (8 ASCII candidates) but the repo ships no chat template, so the behavioral echo probe was skipped. Treat the candidates as unverified risk surface.
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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 NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-hf
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 2026-08-25.
| architecture | llama · 32 layers · 4096-dim |
| parameters | 6738.4M |
| vocabulary | 32,000 tokens |
| license | none declared |
| serialization | safetensors pickle |
| chat template | none |
| glitch-token surface | 132 undertrained candidates, 14 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | LlamaForCausalLM |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 18 — pickle: pytorch_model-00001-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.bin |
| revision | 8efe6c9b9365 |
| HF snapshot | 276.8k downloads · 176 likes · updated 2024-06-03 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 32,000×4096 |
| embedding norms | median 1.1001 · mean 1.08 |
| lineage check | no claimed base model |
| glitch-token samples | "<0xFE>", "<0xFF>", "<0xFB>", "<0xFC>", "<0xFD>", "<0xFA>", "Mediabestanden", "oreferrer", "Normdaten", "ITableView", "regnig", "demsel" |
Battery runs (3)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpu | complete | 2026-08-27 04:31 | 53s | 1 |
| gpu | complete | 2026-08-25 21:47 | 80s | 1 |
| weights | complete | 2026-08-25 20:26 | 22s | 1 |
gpu run 2026-08-27 — measurements
| probes run | glitch |
| probes skipped | glitch-echo: no chat template |
gpu run 2026-08-25 — measurements
| probes run | glitch |
| probes skipped | glitch-echo: no chat template |
weights run 2026-08-25 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, zero-template-token-scan, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 32,000×4096 |
| glitch surface | 132 undertrained, 14 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | not checked (no claimed base model) |
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