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K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron

K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron is a Heretic-ablated variant of darkc0de/K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron, published on Hugging Face by darkc0de. It is 3.7B parameters, runs on a laptop CPU class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 5 repositories in Transformers, GGUF and GGUF (imatrix) formats, totalling 6.4K downloads.

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Specification

Model name
K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron
Publisher
darkc0de
Parameters
3.7B
VRAM required
~3 GB at Q4_K_M, 4k context (estimated) — runs on 4 GB cards
Hardware class
Under 4B — runs on a laptop CPU
Licence
apache-2.0
Task
Text generation
Context window
512K tokens (as documented)
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix)
First indexed
15 Sept 2026
Last updated
14 Oct 2026

Ablation technique

How K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron 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

“K2-Horizon-3.7B is the small dense member of the K2-Horizon family: a 3.7B-core decoder-only model with a 512K context window.”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron-i1-GGUF --local-dir ./k2-horizon-3.7b-heretic-xortron
llama-cli -m ./k2-horizon-3.7b-heretic-xortron/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "darkc0de/K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve darkc0de/K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (4)

Every published repository of K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron, including quantised re-releases by other authors.

Security-team assessment

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

  • K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron 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 darkc0de/K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron, not added by ablation — at 3.7B 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 apache-2.0, but the terms that bind you are darkc0de/K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron’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 K2-Horizon-3.7B-heretic-xortron is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with darkc0de, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.