which-models-are-our-models-built-on-auditing-invisible-dependencies-in-modern-llms-8851393e·1 events·first seen Aliases: Which Models Are Our Models Built On? Auditing Invisible Dependencies in Modern LLMs
Researchers introduce ModSleuth, an agentic system that recursively reconstructs LLM dependency graphs from public artifacts, recovering 1,060 source-verified dependencies across four major LLM releases. The system formalizes direct and indirect dependencies and operation-centered relationships to handle fragmented, inconsistent documentation. Applied at scale, the resulting graphs expose multi-hop license obligations, train-evaluation coupling, and discrepancies between released and training-time artifacts — issues that are practically invisible to manual auditing.