Journal article
Fingerprints That Survive What? Model Lineage Names Three Relations, Robustness Is Indexed by Which Party Is Adversarial, and a Benchmark's Distillation Column Scores the Parent That Was Not Distilled From
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Language-model fingerprinting is asked to answer questions of the form "is this model derived from that one?", and its methods are routinely reported as robust to fine-tuning, quantization, pruning, merging and distillation. This paper argues…