Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A Hugging Face model card for a multilingual sentiment classifier listing per-language F1 scores and known failure modes.
- Is an instance
A model card accompanying a clinical-risk model documenting subgroup AUC across age, sex, and ethnicity.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A model's training README with hyperparameters only.
- Not an instance
An academic-paper abstract.
Editorial commentary
Introduced by Mitchell et al. (2019), model cards address the information asymmetry between model producers and downstream users. They standardise reporting on disaggregated performance (across demographic and contextual slices), failure modes, and ethical considerations. Hugging Face Hub adopted a model-card README convention that has become a de facto standard for many open models.
References
- Mitchell et al., 'Model Cards for Model Reporting' (FAccT 2019); Hugging Face Hub Model Cards documentation.
Also known as
ML model card
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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