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DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic

DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic is a Heretic-ablated variant of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, published on Hugging Face by saidutta69. It is 8B parameters, single consumer GPU class and mit licence. It is distributed across 2 repositories in GGUF format, totalling 6.4K downloads.

Heretic8BQwen4B – 10B↓ 6,360♥ 2

Specification

Model name
DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic
Publisher
saidutta69
Parameters
8B
VRAM required
~5.6 GB at Q4_K_M, 4k context (estimated) — runs on 6 GB cards
Hardware class
4B – 10B — single consumer GPU
Licence
mit
Task
Text generation
Context window
128K tokens (as documented)
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
GGUF
First indexed
8 Oct 2026
Last updated
1 Nov 2026

Ablation technique

How DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic was modified, and what that implies.

Heretic

Automated directional ablation via the Heretic toolchain, which searches for the refusal direction and applies it with a KL-divergence budget so general capability is preserved.

Reported scope: Not stated by the publisher. Publishers frequently omit this, so verify behaviour empirically rather than assuming full coverage.

From the publisher’s model card

“A decensored variant of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, produced with Heretic v1.4.0 (directional ablation / "abliteration"). DeepSeek's R1-0528 distill of Qwen3-8B keeps its native reasoning traces; refusal behaviour is suppressed here via targeted weight edits to the attention output and MLP down-projections...”

Running it

Commands are templates — confirm the exact repository and quant file before use.

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download saidutta69/DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic --local-dir ./deepseek-r1-qwen3-8b-heretic
llama-cli -m ./deepseek-r1-qwen3-8b-heretic/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "saidutta69/DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve saidutta69/DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (1)

The only published repository of DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic.

RepositoryFormatDownloads
saidutta69/DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-hereticsourceGGUF6.4K

Security-team assessment

Derived from this model’s metadata and the publisher’s claims — not from benchmarks run by this site.

  • DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic will attempt offensive-security prompts that a hosted commercial model declines, which is what makes it usable for red-team corpus generation and for measuring what an unaligned model of this class produces.
  • Capability is inherited from deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, not added by ablation — at 8B parameters, expect a small model’s reasoning and a high error rate on exploit detail.
  • The publisher does not state which layers were ablated, so assume nothing about refusal consistency — probe it directly.
  • Declared licence is mit, but the terms that bind you are deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B’s — a re-release cannot grant more than its parent.

Handling: run it isolated, put moderation in front of it if anyone outside your team can reach it, and verify the weights before loading — these are third-party artifacts. Full handling and licence guidance.

Metadata for DeepSeek-R1-Qwen3-8B-heretic is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with saidutta69, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.