Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A fine-tuned medical-coding model declaring base = Llama-3 70B and fine-tune = institutional 12M-record corpus.
- Is an instance
A model lineage graph linking 14 community fine-tunes back to a single Mistral base release.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A model with no declared base.
- Not an instance
A version history of a single training run with no derivative chain.
Editorial commentary
Model lineage matters for licence compliance (a derivative of a non-commercial base inherits the constraint), for security (a base model with a known vulnerability propagates to fine-tunes), for auditability, and for reproducibility. Hugging Face's 'finetuned_from' metadata and SPDX-style provenance graphs are emerging mechanisms.
References
- MLCommons AILuminate provenance work; SPDX AI Profile draft.
Also known as
model provenance · model ancestry
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Model lineage"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-lineage" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Model lineage",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-lineage",
"description": "The chain of provenance for a model recording its base model, the fine-tuning datasets and procedures applied, and any further derivatives, such that any deployed model can be traced back to its constituent training operations.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/ai-and-ml-research-outputs/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-lineage",
"sameAs": [
"model provenance",
"model ancestry"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
