Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A fine-tuned Llama 3 model deposited to Hugging Face with a Zenodo DOI, model card, and licence
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A model checkpoint stored on a personal laptop with no repository or DOI is not a model-as-output in the citable sense
Editorial commentary
Models-as-outputs are increasingly accepted as research outputs in AI/ML fields. Citation conventions include the model name, version, repository DOI, and accompanying model card. Differs from dataset-as-output in being a function (taking inputs to outputs) rather than data.
References
- Hugging Face Model Hub citation conventions
- Mitchell et al. 2019 ‘Model Cards for Model Reporting’ FAT*
Also known as
Trained model (output) · ML model output
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Model (as output)"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-as-output" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Model (as output)",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-as-output",
"description": "A trained machine-learning model — including its weights, architecture, training metadata, and accompanying model card — deposited in a model repository (Hugging Face, Zenodo) with a persistent identifier, treated as a citable scholarly output independent of any paper that may describe it.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-outputs-expanded/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-as-output",
"sameAs": [
"Trained model (output)",
"ML model output"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
