munish0838/Mistral-v0.3-Instruct-Matter-Slim-A-v2 warn
Weights only ship in a format that can run code when loaded; Chat template ends turns with <|im_end|>, which is not a configured stop token; the chat template differs from its base model, which changes behavior. Plus 1 minor note.
claims base: unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit · 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 2026-08-2632,768-token embedding scanned · 194 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-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.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 Chat template ends turns with <|im_end|>, which is not a configured stop token
The chat template terminates assistant turns with <|im_end|>, but the effective EOS set (config.json ∪ generation_config.json = [2] → ["</s>"]) never stops on it. Config-honoring runtimes generate past the terminator until the token budget is exhausted — runaway cost and self-continuing fake turns. Add <|im_end|>'s id to generation_config.json's eos_token_id.
How to fixingot patch
Align the stop-token declarations — a pure metadata fix to `generation_config.json` (and `config.json`).
- Identify the token the chat template actually ends assistant turns with (e.g. `<|eot_id|>`, `<end_of_turn>`, `<|im_end|>`) and make sure its id is in `generation_config.json`'s `eos_token_id` list.
- Keep `config.json`'s `eos_token_id` consistent with (or a subset of) `generation_config.json`'s — runtimes differ in which file they read.
- For the pad-equals-EOS hazard: repoint `pad_token` at a dedicated padding token before fine-tuning; serving is unaffected.
- Until the repo is fixed, pass explicit stop tokens to your serving stack (e.g. vLLM `stop_token_ids`, llama.cpp `--override-kv tokenizer.ggml.eos_token_id`).
medium Chat template differs from claimed parent
The chat template does not match unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit'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.
low Undertrained tokens in vocabulary (non-ASCII tail)
Embedding-norm scan flagged 194 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-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.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.
info Weights consistent with claimed parent unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit
Mean cosine similarity of 64 sampled token-embedding rows against unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit is 0.969 — the weights plausibly descend from the declared base (relation: unspecified).
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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 munish0838/Mistral-v0.3-Instruct-Matter-Slim-A-v2
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 2026-08-26.
| architecture | mistral · 32 layers · 4096-dim |
| vocabulary | 32,768 tokens |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| serialization | no safetensors pickle |
| chat template | present · sha256:86ed4e17f8598dd2 |
| claimed lineage | unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit |
| lineage verified | consistent vs unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit — embedding-row cosine 0.969 |
| glitch-token surface | 194 undertrained candidates, 0 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | MistralForCausalLM |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 11 — pickle: pytorch_model-00001-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.bin |
| revision | e3c251aaa75f |
| HF snapshot | 21 downloads · 0 likes · updated 2024-06-24 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| pickle audit | pytorch_model-00001-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.bin — 3 standard global(s) |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 32,768×4096 |
| embedding norms | median 0.1741 · mean 0.1678 |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 0.9687 over 64 sampled rows vs unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-25 22:13 | 68s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-25 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, zero-template-token-scan, pickle-static-analysis, lineage-norm-correlation |
| probes skipped | token-decode: no tokenizer.json |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 32,768×4096 |
| glitch surface | 194 undertrained, 0 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | consistent — cosine 0.9687 over 64 rows vs unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit |
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