What You Sign Is Not What You Run: The Verifiability Gap in Quantized LLM Supply Chains

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Wei-Liang Liu, Cheng-Yen Tsai)

Summary by Cyber Security News15 Oct 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2610.19498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model signing authenticates the full-precision weights W an LLM is released with, yet users run a quantized artifact Q whose producing transformation is not uniquely determined under current disclosure.

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