Broken on Arrival: Silently Defective LLM Artifacts in Public Model Registries and How to Catch Them

arXiv:2609.05881 · cs.SE, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-05

Updated: 2026-09-05

Comments: Submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2026). Code and data: https://github.com/aditi-p31/quantcheck

Code: https://github.com/aditi-p31/quantcheck

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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