facebook/blenderbot-400M-distill warn
Weights only ship in a format that can run code when loaded.
chat template: not found · view on Hugging Face ↗
Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-25Weights battery2026-08-25Behavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-25 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics — no GPU, no download | complete 2026-08-258,008-token embedding scanned · 0 undertrained · pickle audit clean |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
Ingot runs three batteries against a model. What each one checks →
Findings
Scanned 2026-08-25 · published from a community scan.
medium Pickle-serialized weights, no safetensors
Weights ship only as pickle-based files (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.
info Embedding-norm glitch scan clean
No undertrained tokens found: every non-special token's embedding norm is above 0.3× the vocabulary median (2.840). The glitch-token data-corruption class has no candidate surface in this model.
info Pickle static analysis clean
Opcode-level parse of pytorch_model.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.
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 | blenderbot · 2 layers · 1280-dim |
| vocabulary | 8,008 tokens |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| serialization | no safetensors pickle |
| chat template | none |
| glitch-token surface | clean no undertrained tokens |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | BlenderbotForConditionalGeneration |
| library | transformers |
| repo files | 13 — pickle: pytorch_model.bin |
| revision | eaaf64e3be20 |
| HF snapshot | 10.0k downloads · 468 likes · updated 2023-03-30 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| pickle audit | pytorch_model.bin — 3 standard global(s) |
| embedding tensor | model.shared.weight · F16 · 8,008×1280 |
| embedding norms | median 2.8397 · mean 2.7811 |
| lineage check | no claimed base model |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-25 20:26 | 5s | 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.shared.weight · F16 · 8,008×1280 |
| glitch surface | 0 undertrained, 0 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | not checked (no claimed base model) |
Verdict badge
Ship the verdict in your README — it always shows the latest published analysis:
[](https://ingot.tools/models/facebook/blenderbot-400M-distill)