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fix: don't depend on the hub's case-normalizing redirect for model sources - #732

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For local-only downloads, the code now checks for a matching cached Hugging Face repository with different casing and can try that source after the requested repository. Cache paths use Hugging Face’s repository-folder naming utility. Examples and supported-model metadata also update repository identifier casing.

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Change: Bug fix

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Models cached under the previous repository casing remain accessible through the offline fallback. No merge-blocking risk is established.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6ae39

Offline loading can now use a differently cased cache entry when the requested entry fails. That improves compatibility, but its safety depends on who can write to the cache. No model substitution or broader exposure is established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: When the requested local snapshot fails, the loader can select a case-equivalent cache directory without establishing its writer or repository identity. In a cache writable by a less-trusted party, this could substitute model artifacts; that deployment condition has not been established.
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  • inferred — The fallback can affect callers of the shared model loader, including online callers whose initial local lookup succeeds. Its effective exposure depends on cache sharing and write permissions, which are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A party able to populate a case-equivalent directory in a shared cache may influence the model selected after canonical-cache failure. No evidence establishes such a writer, a distinct case-variant repository identity, or a successful malicious load.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The requested repository is attempted first. Alternate selection requires a whole-folder case-insensitive match and a directory; it does not check cache ownership. The subsequent online path uses the requested repository.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The fallback advances only on recognized download errors. Multiple case-equivalent folders are not ordered explicitly, and metadata parsing precedes that error handler, limiting recovery from some interrupted-cache states.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If caches can be shared with less-trusted writers, constrain legacy aliases to known prior identifiers or establish cache ownership and artifact provenance before accepting an alternate source.
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Description check ❓ Inconclusive No pull request description was provided, so the change rationale and implementation details are not documented in the description. Add a concise description that explains the canonical Hugging Face source names and the fallback handling for legacy case variants.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: model sources no longer depend on Hugging Face case-normalizing redirects.
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license="apache-2.0",
size_in_GB=0.12,
sources=ModelSource(hf="xenova/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en"),
sources=ModelSource(hf="Xenova/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en"),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve access to existing caches when repository casing changes.

The downloader and Hugging Face Hub derive cache paths from the supplied repository ID, preserving its casing. These updates therefore make prior lowercase cache directories invisible to local_files_only=True, so offline users can fail to load models they already cached. Add a fallback or migration for the previous cache keys. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

  • fastembed/late_interaction/token_embeddings.py#L22-L22: support the previous lowercase xenova/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/onnx_embedding.py#L50-L50: support the previous lowercase qdrant/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/onnx_embedding.py#L116-L116: support the previous lowercase snowflake/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/onnx_embedding.py#L128-L128: support the previous lowercase snowflake/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/onnx_embedding.py#L152-L152: support the previous lowercase snowflake/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/onnx_embedding.py#L164-L164: support the previous lowercase snowflake/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/pooled_embedding.py#L58-L58: support the previous lowercase qdrant/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/pooled_embedding.py#L70-L70: support the previous lowercase xenova/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/pooled_embedding.py#L83-L83: support the previous lowercase qdrant/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/pooled_normalized_embedding.py#L22-L22: support the previous lowercase qdrant/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/pooled_normalized_embedding.py#L36-L36: support the previous lowercase xenova/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/pooled_normalized_embedding.py#L48-L48: support the previous lowercase xenova/... cache key.
  • fastembed/text/pooled_normalized_embedding.py#L120-L120: support the previous lowercase qdrant/... cache key.
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  • fastembed/late_interaction/token_embeddings.py#L22-L22 (this comment)
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  • fastembed/text/onnx_embedding.py#L116-L116
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  • fastembed/text/onnx_embedding.py#L152-L152
  • fastembed/text/onnx_embedding.py#L164-L164
  • fastembed/text/pooled_embedding.py#L58-L58
  • fastembed/text/pooled_embedding.py#L70-L70
  • fastembed/text/pooled_embedding.py#L83-L83
  • fastembed/text/pooled_normalized_embedding.py#L22-L22
  • fastembed/text/pooled_normalized_embedding.py#L36-L36
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In `@fastembed/common/model_management.py`:
- Line 283: Update the local-only Hugging Face lookup in download_model so that
when the canonical repository lookup cannot provide the requested snapshot, it
retries using the legacy repository ID via _find_legacy_cased_source before
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