The mirror exists only as a resilience fallback for the
xaitalk library — the upstream remains
authoritative. All credit and licensing for the model belong to the original
authors.
1from xaitalk.hub import ensure_model
2weights_path = ensure_model("yolov8n")
3# Tries the canonical upstream first; falls back to this xaitalk mirror
4# automatically if upstream is unreachable.
xaitalk's research-grade reproducibility claim relies on every weight file
being recoverable years from now. We mirror artifacts ≤ 2.5 GB under
xaitalk/*-mirror so the pipeline survives upstream URL changes, repo
renames, or deletions. Bit-level parity with the canonical is asserted in
CI via python -m xaitalk.hub verify-mirrors.