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provable inference

noun \ˈprü-və-bəl ˈin-f(ə-)rən(t)s\

also verifiable inference or inference verification or proof of inference

TopicSafety & Ethics First known use2026 Senses1

Definition of provable inference

  1. : a method for producing independently checkable evidence that an AI output was generated by a specified model and computation, often without revealing the model's private weights

    • Provable inference could let a customer verify that a routing service used the model it promised instead of a cheaper substitute.
    • The auditor checked the inference proof without rerunning the frontier model or learning its weights.
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Origin & history

first known use2026

Anthropic used provable inference in its 2026 Frontier Safety Roadmap for a project on attributing model outputs to a specific set of weights. In November 2026, it released FlashProve, an open prototype that uses zero-knowledge succinct arguments to prove token generation by a committed model. Anthropic also broadened the name of its overall goal to inference verification, because cryptographic proofs are one of several possible verification methods.

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Sources & further reading

3 sources
  1. Progress on provable inference for large language models Anthropic · 2026-11-02
  2. Bit-Exact AI Inference Verification Without Performance Tradeoffs arXiv · 2026-06-01
  3. TopLoc: A Locality Sensitive Hashing Scheme for Trustless Verifiable Inference OpenReview · 2024

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