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Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable

Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable is a Heretic-ablated variant of prithivMLmods/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Unredacted-MAX, published on Hugging Face by prithivMLmods. It is 8B parameters, single consumer GPU class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 5 repositories in Transformers, GGUF and GGUF (imatrix) formats, totalling 13K downloads.

Heretic8BQwen4B – 10B↓ 12,962♥ 4

Specification

Model name
Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable
Publisher
prithivMLmods
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
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Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix)
First indexed
23 May 2026
Last updated
14 Oct 2026

Ablation technique

How Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable 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

“This release does not introduce new benchmark results and primarily focuses on repackaging, sharding updates, and Transformers compatibility improvements over the base model.”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable-GGUF --local-dir ./qwen3-vl-8b-heretic-stable
llama-cli -m ./qwen3-vl-8b-heretic-stable/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "prithivMLmods/Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve prithivMLmods/Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (4)

Every published repository of Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable, 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.

  • Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable 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 prithivMLmods/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Unredacted-MAX, 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 prithivMLmods/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Unredacted-MAX’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-VL-8B-Heretic-Stable is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with prithivMLmods, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.