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Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated is a refusal-ablated variant of meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct, published on Hugging Face by mylesgoose. It is 1B parameters, runs on a laptop CPU class and llama3.2 licence. It is distributed across 20 repositories in Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix) and OpenVINO formats, totalling 5.9K downloads.

Abliteration (directional ablation)1BLlamaUnder 4B5,8716

Specification

Model name
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated
Publisher
mylesgoose
Parameters
1B
Hardware class
Under 4B — runs on a laptop CPU
Licence
llama3.2
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix), OpenVINO
First indexed
1 Oct 2024
Last updated
15 Jul 2026

Ablation technique

How Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated was modified, and what that implies.

Abliteration (directional ablation)

The single residual-stream direction that mediates refusal is identified from harmful/harmless prompt pairs and projected out of the model weights.

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

The Meta Llama 3.2 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pretrained and instruction-tuned generative models in 1B and 3B sizes (text in/text out). The Llama 3.2 instruction-tuned text only models are optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases, including agentic retrieval and...

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated-GGUF --local-dir ./llama-3.2-1b-instruct-abliterated
llama-cli -m ./llama-3.2-1b-instruct-abliterated/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "mylesgoose/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve mylesgoose/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (19)

Every published repository of Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated, 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.

  • Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated 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 meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct, not added by ablation — at 1B 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 llama3.2, but the terms that bind you are meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct’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 Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-abliterated is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with mylesgoose, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.