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Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara

Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara is a Heretic-ablated variant of Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, published on Hugging Face by trohrbaugh. It is 27B parameters, 48GB VRAM class class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 37 repositories in Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix) and MLX formats, totalling 179K downloads.

Heretic27BQwen25B – 50B179,03390

Specification

Model name
Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara
Publisher
trohrbaugh
Parameters
27B
Hardware class
25B – 50B — 48GB VRAM class
Licence
apache-2.0
Task
Image text to text
Context window
256K tokens (as documented)
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix), MLX, FP8, EXL3, NVFP4, Compressed tensors, GPTQ
First indexed
14 Aug 2026
Last updated
6 Sept 2026

Ablation technique

How Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara 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

Following the widespread community adoption of the Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6 series, we are pleased to introduce Qwen3.8, the most capable generation in the Qwen open-model family to date.

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-GGUF --local-dir ./qwen3.8-27b-heretic-ara
llama-cli -m ./qwen3.8-27b-heretic-ara/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "trohrbaugh/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve trohrbaugh/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (36)

Every published repository of Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara, including quantised re-releases by other authors.

RepositoryFormatDownloads
mradermacher/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-GGUFGGUF36.8K
mradermacher/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-i1-GGUFGGUF (imatrix)36.7K
cygnal/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-Q4_K_M-MTP-GGUFGGUF34.9K
hwkranger/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-NVFP4NVFP412.3K
trohrbaugh/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-arasourceTransformers11.8K
lued/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-INT8-W8A16-MTPTransformers10.5K
heretic-org/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-araTransformers8.1K
MoeTheGreat/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-Q6_K-GGUFGGUF6.4K
armand0e/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-ara-GGUFGGUF2.7K
JC1DA/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-W4A16Compressed tensors2.4K
wago666/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-Q5_K_M-GGUFGGUF1.6K
PassingByPixels/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-NVFP4NVFP41.6K
CorVous/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-GGUFGGUF1.4K
trohrbaugh/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-gguf-Q5GGUF1.4K
McG-221/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-mlx-8BitMLX1.4K
filvyb/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-GGUFGGUF1.3K
drmcbride/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-Q8_0-GGUFGGUF1.3K
magiccodingman/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-fp8FP81.3K
exportTankHarmful/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-Q4_K_M-GGUFGGUF1.1K
cvgro/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-Q8_0-GGUFGGUF573
AutisticAF/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-mlx-4BitMLX480
JC1DA/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-INT4-INT8-GPTQGPTQ448
coder3101/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-araTransformers433
Honkware/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-exl3-5.0bpwEXL3417
Honkware/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-exl3-4.0bpwEXL3317
AAA1672/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-Q3_K_L-GGUFGGUF315
catplusplus/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-NVFP4-MTPNVFP4267
fermicalva/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-MTP-FP8FP8213
Honkware/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-exl3-4.5bpwEXL3208
Impulse2000/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara-Q6_K-GGUFGGUF140
Plus 6 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.

  • Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara 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/Qwen3.8-27B, not added by ablation — at 27B parameters, expect roughly the base model’s competence, minus some instruction-following fidelity.
  • 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/Qwen3.8-27B’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 Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with trohrbaugh, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.