How to Verify a 'Trained-From-Scratch' LLM in 2026: A Provenance and Fingerprinting Guide

A 2026 practitioner's guide to LLM provenance: verify 'trained from scratch' claims with architecture, tokenizer, and embedding-CKA fingerprints - plus the open-weight lineage debate and public tools.

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