QuantFactory/MN-Violet-Lotus-12B-GGUF warn
Its license differs from its base model's; the chat template was dropped from its base model, which changes behavior.
Could not load this model from the Hugging Face API (private, gated, or nonexistent). Findings below are from our archive.
Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-21Weights batteryn/aBehavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-21 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics — no GPU, no download | n/arepo ships no scannable weights (no safetensors and no pickle checkpoints — GGUF/CoreML/other formats) |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
Ingot runs three batteries against a model. What each one checks →
Findings
Scanned 2026-08-21 · published from a community scan.
medium License differs from claimed parent (cc-by-4.0 vs apache-2.0)
This model declares cc-by-4.0 while its claimed base mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 declares apache-2.0. 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 Chat template dropped vs parent
mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 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.
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 QuantFactory/MN-Violet-Lotus-12B-GGUF
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 2026-08-21.
| license | cc-by-4.0 |
| serialization | gguf |
| chat template | none |
| claimed lineage | mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407, Epiculous/Violet_Twilight-v0.2, NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B, flammenai/Mahou-1.5-mistral-nemo-12B, Sao10K/MN-12B-Lyra-v4 |
| lineage verified | unverified — weights battery pending |
Full measured fingerprint
| library | transformers |
| repo files | 16 |
| revision | d14c1b5edbd6 |
| HF snapshot | 2.6k downloads · 18 likes · updated 2024-11-24 · captured 2026-08-21 |
| weights battery | token-embedding scan n/a — repo ships no scannable weights (no safetensors and no pickle checkpoints — GGUF/CoreML/other formats) |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-21 05:11 | 0s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-21 — measurements
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