Sandiago21/falcon-7b-prompt-answering warn
Weights only ship in a format that can run code when loaded; loading it runs custom code from the repo; its license differs from its base model's. Plus 2 minor notes.
claims base: tiiuae/falcon-7b · chat template: not found · 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 2026-08-2665,024-token embedding scanned · 7 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 (adapter_model.bin, finetuned_conversations.pth, pytorch_model.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 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.
- Read every `.py` file in the repo before first load — this code runs in your process.
- 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.
- Prefer a version of the architecture already in `transformers` if one exists, which removes the remote-code requirement entirely.
medium License differs from claimed parent (other vs apache-2.0)
This model declares other while its claimed base tiiuae/falcon-7b 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.
low Undertrained tokens in vocabulary (non-ASCII tail)
Embedding-norm scan flagged 7 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median), but 4 decode to plain-ASCII strings, so exposure in English-language pipelines is limited. 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.bin, pytorch_model-00001-of-00002.bin, adapter_model.bin, finetuned_conversations.pth (no code executed) found only standard serialization globals (4 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: pytorch_model-00001-of-00002.bin: 404 Not Found for https://huggingface.co/Sandiago21/falcon-7b-prompt-answering/resolve/main/pytorch_model-00001-of-00002.bin. Unparsed content is unverified.
info Weights consistent with claimed parent tiiuae/falcon-7b
Mean cosine similarity of 64 sampled token-embedding rows against tiiuae/falcon-7b is 1.000 — the weights plausibly descend from the declared base (relation: unspecified).
Remediation guidance addresses the documented findings only. It is evidence-driven repair, not a safety certification of the model.
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Fingerprint
The durable profile of this model: measured weights-and-metadata facts, rebuilt on every scan and battery run. Updated 2026-08-26.
| architecture | RefinedWebModel · 32 layers · 4544-dim |
| vocabulary | 65,024 tokens |
| license | other |
| serialization | no safetensors pickle custom code |
| chat template | none |
| claimed lineage | tiiuae/falcon-7b |
| lineage verified | consistent vs tiiuae/falcon-7b — embedding-row cosine 1.000 |
| glitch-token surface | 7 undertrained candidates, 4 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | RWForCausalLM |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 24 — pickle: adapter_model.bin, finetuned_conversations.pth, pytorch_model.bin, tiiuae/falcon-7b/pytorch_model-00001-of-00002.bin, tiiuae/falcon-7b/pytorch_model-00002-of-00002.bin, training_args.bin |
| revision | cc4eee0f510b |
| HF snapshot | 14 downloads · 2 likes · updated 2023-09-19 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| pickle audit | pytorch_model.bin, pytorch_model-00001-of-00002.bin, adapter_model.bin, finetuned_conversations.pth — 4 standard global(s) |
| embedding tensor | base_model.model.transformer.word_embeddings.weight · F32 · 65,024×4544 |
| embedding norms | median 3.4494 · mean 3.4336 |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 1 over 64 sampled rows vs tiiuae/falcon-7b |
| glitch-token samples | "amsbsy", "upgreek", "wasysym", "klattimer" |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-25 22:32 | 87s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-25 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, zero-template-token-scan, pickle-static-analysis, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | base_model.model.transformer.word_embeddings.weight · F32 · 65,024×4544 |
| glitch surface | 7 undertrained, 4 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 1 over 64 rows vs tiiuae/falcon-7b |
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