google/flan-t5-small pass
No major issues. Minor: a small glitch-token surface (non-English text only).
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 2026-08-2532,128-token embedding scanned · 30 undertrained |
| 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.
low Undertrained tokens in vocabulary (non-ASCII tail)
Embedding-norm scan flagged 30 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.
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 2026-08-25.
| architecture | t5 · 8 layers · 512-dim |
| parameters | 77.0M |
| vocabulary | 32,128 tokens |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| serialization | safetensors pickle |
| chat template | none |
| glitch-token surface | 30 undertrained candidates, 0 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | T5ForConditionalGeneration |
| library | transformers |
| repo files | 12 — pickle: pytorch_model.bin |
| revision | 0fc9ddf78a1e |
| HF snapshot | 562.3k downloads · 492 likes · updated 2023-10-10 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| embedding tensor | shared.weight · F32 · 32,128×512 |
| embedding norms | median 306.5676 · mean 303.6467 |
| 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 | 3s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-25 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, zero-template-token-scan, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | shared.weight · F32 · 32,128×512 |
| glitch surface | 30 undertrained, 0 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | not checked (no claimed base model) |
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