The digest
9c6061af1f450bb0847e529fd742aa5066017be379c71bbf5546b198e5b13a1e resnet-50.safetensors
That line is in sha256sum format, so it can be checked mechanically rather than by eye. Save it next to the file and let the tool do the comparison:
curl -sL https://tinymodels.co/models/resnet-50/download -o resnet-50.safetensors curl -s https://tinymodels.co/models/resnet-50/checksum?format=txt -o resnet-50.safetensors.sha256 shasum -a 256 -c resnet-50.safetensors.sha256 # resnet-50.safetensors: OK
What this proves, and what it does not
This digest is the upstream repository's own LFS object id for that file, so it confirms the file you receive is genuinely the publisher's artifact, unchanged. It does not attest that the model is accurate, safe or free of surprises — only that the bytes are the bytes that were published.
Other formats
Going further
Verifying a download walks through this with the commands, and explains what a matching digest does and does not prove.