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Comment by throwaway314155

2 days ago

Thanks!

> This model has 1 file scanned as unsafe. testvl-pre76-top187-rec69.pth

Hm, perhaps I'll wait for this to get cleared up?

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userbinator  2 days ago

I wonder if the entropy of model weights and their size causes statistical false positives to appear often?

  • throwaway314155  2 days ago

    I imagine it has more to do with whether or not the file appears to have executable python code in it, as a .pth file is usually just a a pickled python object and these can be manipulated to load arbitrary python code when loaded.

echelon  2 days ago

This is not the first time I've heard of checkpoints being used to distribute malware. In fact, I've heard this was a popular vector from shady international groups.

I wouldn't expect this from Bilibili's Index Team, though, given how high profile they are. It's probably(?) a false positive. Though I wouldn't use it personally, just to be safe.

The safetensors format should be used by everyone. Raw pth files and pickle files should be shunned and abandoned by the industry. It's a bad format.