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Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic

Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic is a Heretic-ablated variant of Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507, published on Hugging Face by heretic-org. It is 4B parameters, single consumer GPU class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 70 repositories in GGUF, Transformers, GGUF (imatrix) and AWQ formats, totalling 12.1K downloads.

Heretic4BQwen4B – 10B↓ 12,125♥ 65

Specification

Model name
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic
Publisher
heretic-org
Parameters
4B
VRAM required
~3.2 GB at Q4_K_M, 4k context (estimated) — runs on 4 GB cards
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, Transformers, GGUF (imatrix), AWQ, GPTQ, Compressed tensors
First indexed
15 Nov 2025
Last updated
1 Nov 2026

Ablation technique

How Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-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

“We introduce the updated version of the Qwen3-4B non-thinking mode, named Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507, featuring the following key enhancements:”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download saidutta69/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic --local-dir ./qwen3-4b-instruct-2507-heretic
llama-cli -m ./qwen3-4b-instruct-2507-heretic/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "heretic-org/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve heretic-org/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (69)

Every published repository of Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic, including quantised re-releases by other authors.

RepositoryFormatDownloads
saidutta69/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticGGUF2.1K
heretic-org/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticsourceTransformers1.6K
p-e-w/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers1.4K
logos-flux/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-GGUFGGUF1K
tinyopsec/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-GGUFGGUF941
mradermacher/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-GGUFGGUF895
yamatazen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Q4_K_M-GGUFGGUF821
mradermacher/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-i1-GGUFGGUF (imatrix)384
nhater69/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers367
ZuzeTt/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Imatrix-GGUFGGUF316
richardyoung/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers283
ZuzeTt/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-GGUFGGUF257
rayss868123/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers196
darthguinea/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers191
nhater69/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Q4_K_M-GGUFGGUF168
loolzrulez/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Q5_K_M-GGUFGGUF134
Biomanticus/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic.ggufGGUF121
jfiekdjdk/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Q8_0-GGUFGGUF62
kino1008/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers56
papyweeki/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Q4_K_M.ggufGGUF48
sourcepirate/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers48
martin-t-studio/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-ggufGGUF47
Sangriot/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-HereticGGUF46
sasa2000/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-AWQ-4bitAWQ44
loolzrulez/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Q8_0-GGUFGGUF40
MassivDash/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Q6_K-GGUFGGUF38
Riday123/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers36
zoro1991/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers34
MassivDash/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic-Q8_0-GGUFGGUF33
Tolu49ja/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-hereticTransformers28
Plus 39 further repositories with fewer downloads, all counted in the totals above.

Security-team assessment

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

  • Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-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 Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507, not added by ablation — at 4B 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 Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507’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 Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-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 heretic-org, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.