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Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-heretic

Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-heretic is a Heretic-ablated variant of unsloth/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512, published on Hugging Face by xtools-at. It is 8B parameters, single consumer GPU class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 4 repositories in Transformers, GGUF and GGUF (imatrix) formats, totalling 6.8K downloads.

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Specification

Model name
Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-heretic
Publisher
xtools-at
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
apache-2.0
Task
Unspecified
Context window
256K tokens (as documented)
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix)
First indexed
20 Oct 2026
Last updated
22 Oct 2026

Ablation technique

How Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-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 balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-heretic-i1-GGUF --local-dir ./ministral-3-8b-reasoning-uncensored-heretic
llama-cli -m ./ministral-3-8b-reasoning-uncensored-heretic/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "xtools-at/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-heretic"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve xtools-at/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-heretic --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (3)

Every published repository of Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-heretic, 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.

  • Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-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 unsloth/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512, 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 apache-2.0, but the terms that bind you are unsloth/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512’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 Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-UNCENSORED-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 xtools-at, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.