Model-intrinsic, Weight-level, and Training-free Spectral Fingerprinting for Large Language Models
Spectral fingerprinting enables training-free, offline provenance verification of open-weight LLMs — a step toward auditable model supply chains under the EU AI Act.
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arXiv:2610.30626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing release and reuse of Large Language Models (LLMs) as open-weight checkpoints make model fingerprinting important for ownership protection and offline auditing. Existing fingerprinting methods typically construct evidence from query responses, generated outputs, or input-induced activations. Although effective in representation-based settings, they can be affected by prompt selection, decoding configuration, inference environment, an
Editorial Analysis
As the EU AI Act demands traceability for high-risk AI systems, lightweight model fingerprinting could become a practical compliance tool for enterprises managing open-weight model portfolios.
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