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Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-abliterated

Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-abliterated is a refusal-ablated variant of mistralai/Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409, published on Hugging Face by byroneverson. It is other licence. It is distributed across 11 repositories in Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix) and EXL2 formats, totalling 11K downloads.

Abliteration (directional ablation)Mistral11,02414

Specification

Model name
Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-abliterated
Publisher
byroneverson
Parameters
Not determinable from name
Hardware class
Unknown
Licence
other
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix), EXL2, MLX
First indexed
23 Sept 2024
Last updated
27 Jan 2026

Ablation technique

How Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-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

Check out the jupyter notebook for details of how this model was abliterated.

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-abliterated-i1-GGUF --local-dir ./mistral-small-instruct-2409-abliterated
llama-cli -m ./mistral-small-instruct-2409-abliterated/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "byroneverson/Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-abliterated"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve byroneverson/Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-abliterated --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (10)

Every published repository of Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-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.

  • Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-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.
  • The publisher does not state which layers were ablated, so assume nothing about refusal consistency — probe it directly.
  • Declared licence is other, but the terms that bind you are mistralai/Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409’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 Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409-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 byroneverson, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.