TheDrummer/Rocinante-X-12B-v1 warn
No license declared — no usage rights by default; the chat template was dropped from its base model, which changes behavior; glitch tokens that can silently corrupt ordinary input.
claims base: mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 · chat template: present · view on Hugging Face ↗
Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-21Weights battery2026-08-21Behavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-21 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics: no GPU, no download | complete 2026-08-21131,072-token embedding scanned · 140 undertrained · lineage consistent |
| 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 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 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.
medium Undertrained (glitch) token surface in vocabulary
Embedding-norm scan flagged 140 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median of 0.620), including 23 plain-ASCII strings that can appear in ordinary input as identifiers — e.g. "erresident", "abezian", "komert", "higiez", "pemerint", "banako", "komertzio", "tanleria". 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 Weights consistent with claimed parent mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
Mean cosine similarity of 64 sampled token-embedding rows against mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 is 1.000 — the weights plausibly descend from the declared base (relation: unspecified).
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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 TheDrummer/Rocinante-X-12B-v1
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.
| architecture | mistral · 40 layers · 5120-dim |
| parameters | 12247.8M |
| vocabulary | 131,072 tokens |
| license | none declared |
| serialization | safetensors |
| chat template | none |
| claimed lineage | mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 |
| lineage verified | consistent vs mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 — embedding-row cosine 1.000 |
| glitch-token surface | 140 undertrained candidates, 23 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | MistralForCausalLM |
| repo files | 14 |
| revision | 6830a4cfeb12 |
| HF snapshot | 811 downloads · 96 likes · updated 2026-01-25 · captured 2026-08-21 |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · BF16 · 131,072×5120 |
| embedding norms | median 0.6197 · mean 0.5966 |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 1 over 64 sampled rows vs mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 |
| glitch-token samples | "erresident", "abezian", "komert", "higiez", "pemerint", "banako", "komertzio", "tanleria", "igelts", "miejs", "-usti", "zimendu" |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-21 05:13 | 78s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-21 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · BF16 · 131,072×5120 |
| glitch surface | 140 undertrained, 23 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 1 over 64 rows vs mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 |
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