mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit warn
The chat template differs from its base model, which changes behavior.
Could not load this model from the Hugging Face API (private, gated, or nonexistent). Findings below are from our archive.
Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-21Weights batteryfailedBehavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-21 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics — no GPU, no download | failedunsupported embedding dtype U32 |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
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Findings
Scanned 2026-08-21 · published from a community scan.
medium Chat template differs from claimed parent
The chat template does not match Qwen/Qwen3-8B's. Template drift silently changes model behavior even when weights are identical — 37% of drifted derivatives in our census left it undisclosed. Diff the templates before deploying.
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.
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 mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit
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 | qwen3 · 36 layers · 4096-dim |
| parameters | 1792.0M |
| vocabulary | 151,936 tokens |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| serialization | safetensors |
| chat template | present · sha256:87a2728cb8dc9fe4 |
| claimed lineage | Qwen/Qwen3-8B |
| lineage verified | unverified — weights battery pending |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| library | mlx |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 12 |
| revision | 35a99712f90d |
| HF snapshot | 791 downloads · 4 likes · updated 2025-04-28 · captured 2026-08-21 |
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