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mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated

mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated is a refusal-ablated variant of mlabonne/Qwen3-8B-abliterated, published on Hugging Face by bartowski. It is 8B parameters, single consumer GPU class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 4 repositories in GGUF format, totalling 9.4K downloads.

Abliteration (directional ablation)8BOther4B – 10B↓ 9,361♥ 23
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Specification

Model name
mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated
Source repository
bartowski/mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated-GGUF
Base model
mlabonne/Qwen3-8B-abliterated
Publisher
bartowski
Parameters
8B
Hardware class
4B – 10B — single consumer GPU
Licence
apache-2.0
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
GGUF
First indexed
29 Apr 2025
Last updated
1 Jul 2026

Ablation technique

How mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-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

“All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download bartowski/mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated-GGUF --local-dir ./mlabonne-qwen3-8b-abliterated
llama-cli -m ./mlabonne-qwen3-8b-abliterated/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "bartowski/mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated-GGUF"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve bartowski/mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated-GGUF --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (3)

Every published repository of mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated, including quantised re-releases by other authors.

RepositoryFormatDownloads
bartowski/mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated-GGUFsourceGGUF9.2K
123lanhua/mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated-GGUFGGUF144
tensorblock/mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-abliterated-GGUFGGUF35

Security-team assessment

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

  • mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-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 mlabonne/Qwen3-8B-abliterated, 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 mlabonne/Qwen3-8B-abliterated’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 mlabonne_Qwen3-8B-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 bartowski, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.