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Safetensors library audited as secure, set to become default for ML models

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The safetensors library, developed by Hugging Face in collaboration with EleutherAI and Stability AI, has undergone a security audit by Trail of Bits, confirming its safety. This audit allows the organizations to move towards making safetensors the default format for saving and loading machine learning models, replacing the less secure pickle format used by PyTorch. The library offers benefits such as faster loading times and lazy loading capabilities, and will now be installed by default in the transformers library. AI

RANK_REASON External security audit of a widely-used ML model serialization library.

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Safetensors library audited as secure, set to become default for ML models

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  1. Hugging Face Blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    🐶Safetensors audited as really safe and becoming the default

  2. EleutherAI Blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    🐶Safetensors audited as really safe and becoming the default

    Audit shows that safetensors is safe and ready to become the default Hugging Face, in close collaboration with EleutherAI and Stability AI, has ordered an external security audit of the safetensors library, the results of which allow all three organizations to move toward making …

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