zkML Inference Proof: What the Receipt Proves, and What the Model Still Does Not

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zkML Inference Proof

A zkML Inference Proof is easy to oversell. A zkML Inference Proof can show that a committed model computation produced a claimed output from a specific input or input commitment. A zkML Inference Proof cannot show that the model was worth using, that the training data was clean, or that the answer is true. A zkML Inference Proof should be read as a receipt for execution, not as a certificate of intelligence.

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