farbodtavakkoli/OTel-LLM-12B-IT warn
Weights only ship in a format that can run code when loaded; its license differs from its base model's. Plus 1 minor note.
claims base: google/gemma-3-12b-it · chat template: present · 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 2026-08-26262,208-token embedding scanned · 63 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 (pytorch_model-00001-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00010.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 License differs from claimed parent (apache-2.0 vs gemma)
This model declares apache-2.0 while its claimed base google/gemma-3-12b-it declares gemma. 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 63 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median), but 0 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-00001-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00004-of-00010.bin (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.
info Weights consistent with claimed parent google/gemma-3-12b-it
Mean cosine similarity of 64 sampled token-embedding rows against google/gemma-3-12b-it 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 | gemma3 |
| vocabulary | 262,208 tokens |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| serialization | no safetensors pickle |
| chat template | present (chat_template.jinja) · sha256:7de1c58e208eda46 |
| claimed lineage | google/gemma-3-12b-it |
| lineage verified | consistent vs google/gemma-3-12b-it — embedding-row cosine 1.000 |
| glitch-token surface | 63 undertrained candidates, 0 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 21 — pickle: pytorch_model-00001-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00004-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00005-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00006-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00007-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00008-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00009-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00010-of-00010.bin |
| revision | c8585fdff614 |
| HF snapshot | 17 downloads · 0 likes · updated 2026-06-23 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| pickle audit | pytorch_model-00001-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00010.bin, pytorch_model-00004-of-00010.bin — 4 standard global(s) |
| embedding tensor | model.language_model.embed_tokens.weight · F32 · 262,208×3840 |
| embedding norms | median 0.9503 · mean 0.9497 |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 1 over 64 sampled rows vs google/gemma-3-12b-it |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-25 22:19 | 6m | 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.language_model.embed_tokens.weight · F32 · 262,208×3840 |
| glitch surface | 63 undertrained, 0 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 1 over 64 rows vs google/gemma-3-12b-it |
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