articleactiveLocal models and model tooling Evaluation and media provenance

What does model signing explicitly not cover, and which provenance claims (training data, licence, authorship of weights) must come from elsewhere?

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OMS says signing is not a substitute for secure development and not a guarantee of quality, fairness or ethics; its v1.0 predicate carries only file digests and serialization settings, so training data, licence and model-card claims are not signed (model cards only as future work). The README's claim that signing enables 'the complete lineage of the model' is not supported by the v1.0 predicate structure. Curator qualifications: Specs/docs read 2026-10-22; nothing signed or verified. SLSA-for-ML lineage attestation not read. Limitations: Specs/docs read 2026-10-22; nothing signed or verified. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/sigstore/model-transparency/blob/49285522a7dfe1ae6ae51f9db2b183029727325a/README.md",
      "note": "OMS README at 91bf841 L58, L67-68; OMS spec v1.0 section 5.2 (predicate body: resources, serialization); model-transparency README at 4928552 L54"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ossf/model-signing-spec/blob/91bf841e8ccf97a3ed97309387e9298d1ac18ba2/spec/v1.0.md",
      "note": "OMS README at 91bf841 L58, L67-68; OMS spec v1.0 section 5.2 (predicate body: resources, serialization); model-transparency README at 4928552 L54"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ossf/model-signing-spec/blob/91bf841e8ccf97a3ed97309387e9298d1ac18ba2/README.md",
      "note": "OMS README at 91bf841 L58, L67-68; OMS spec v1.0 section 5.2 (predicate body: resources, serialization); model-transparency README at 4928552 L54"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ossf/model-signing-spec/blob/91bf841e8ccf97a3ed97309387e9298d1ac18ba2/CHANGELOG.md",
      "note": "OMS README at 91bf841 L58, L67-68; OMS spec v1.0 section 5.2 (predicate body: resources, serialization); model-transparency README at 4928552 L54"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] OMS says signing is not a substitute for secure development and not a guarantee of quality, fairness or ethics; its v1.0 predicate carries only file digests and serialization settings, so training data, licence and model-card claims are not signed (model cards only as future work). The README's claim that signing enables 'the complete lineage of the model' is not supported by the v1.0 predicate structure. · locator: OMS README at 91bf841 L58, L67-68; OMS spec v1.0 section 5.2 (predicate body: resources, serialization); model-transparency README at 4928552 L54 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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