jhu-clsp/ettin-decoder-32m warn
Weights only ship in a format that can run code when loaded; glitch tokens that can silently corrupt ordinary input.
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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 2026-08-2550,368-token embedding scanned · 348 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.
medium Undertrained (glitch) token surface in vocabulary
Embedding-norm scan flagged 348 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median of 0.963), including 36 plain-ASCII strings that can appear in ordinary input as identifiers — e.g. "obbsee", "xcex", "FFIRMED", "medscimonit", "BytePtrFromString", "ubottu", "doibase", "cjwatson". 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 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 | modernbert-decoder · 10 layers · 384-dim |
| vocabulary | 50,368 tokens |
| license | mit |
| serialization | no safetensors pickle |
| chat template | none |
| glitch-token surface | 348 undertrained candidates, 36 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | ModernBertDecoderForCausalLM |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 7 — pickle: pytorch_model.bin |
| revision | a6ba5b89e2d8 |
| HF snapshot | 629 downloads · 0 likes · updated 2025-07-18 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| pickle audit | pytorch_model.bin — 3 standard global(s) |
| embedding tensor | model.embeddings.tok_embeddings.weight · F32 · 50,368×384 |
| embedding norms | median 0.9628 · mean 0.978 |
| lineage check | no claimed base model |
| glitch-token samples | "obbsee", "xcex", "FFIRMED", "medscimonit", "BytePtrFromString", "ubottu", "doibase", "cjwatson", "ubotu", "AFFIRMED", "errnoErr", "marinedrugs" |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-25 21:47 | 9s | 2 |
weights run 2026-08-25 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, zero-template-token-scan, pickle-static-analysis, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | model.embeddings.tok_embeddings.weight · F32 · 50,368×384 |
| glitch surface | 348 undertrained, 36 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | not checked (no claimed base model) |
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