Eight model repos, added up: the file list and the model disagree

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I asked eight model repos on Hugging Face for their file list, added up every file that looks like weights, and compared that sum with the single file I would actually load. Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct ships exactly one weight file, so its file list and its model are the same object and the ratio is 1. Two of the eight repos list the same bytes under more than one name.

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