Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage
· Source: helpnetsecurity.com
In short
Cisco has released the Model Provenance Kit, an open-source Python toolkit designed to verify the lineage of AI models by comparing architecture metadata, tokenizer structure, and learned weights. The tool addresses growing AI supply chain risks, where models downloaded from open repositories may have falsified documentation or be derivatives of other models, and helps organizations meet regulatory requirements such as the EU AI Act and NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
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Tags: AI, supply chain, model lineage, open source, provenance, Cisco