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Qwen3.8-27B-heretic

Qwen3.8-27B-heretic is a Heretic-ablated variant of Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, published on Hugging Face by jakejb53. It is 27B parameters, 48GB VRAM class class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 42 repositories in GGUF, Transformers, FP8 and Full precision formats, totalling 17.7K downloads.

Heretic27BQwen25B – 50B↓ 17,697♥ 6

Specification

Model name
Qwen3.8-27B-heretic
Publisher
jakejb53
Parameters
27B
VRAM required
~17.2 GB at Q4_K_M, 4k context (estimated) — runs on 24 GB cards
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
GGUF, Transformers, FP8, Full precision, MLX, GGUF (imatrix), Compressed tensors, NVFP4, EXL3
First indexed
14 Aug 2026
Last updated
27 Oct 2026

Ablation technique

How Qwen3.8-27B-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

“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 darrellbest/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-GGUF --local-dir ./qwen3.8-27b-heretic
llama-cli -m ./qwen3.8-27b-heretic/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "jakejb53/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve jakejb53/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (41)

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

RepositoryFormatDownloads
darrellbest/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-GGUFGGUF6.3K
jakejb53/Qwen3.8-27B-hereticsourceTransformers2.2K
cu64/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-GGUFGGUF1.8K
mradermacher/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-GGUFGGUF1.1K
mradermacher/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-i1-GGUFGGUF (imatrix)686
OptimizeLLM/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-MTP-FP8FP8588
TheCluster/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-MLX-4bitMLX528
Atomic-Germ/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-MTP-GGUFGGUF425
andrevp/Qwen3.8-27B-EXL3-3.5bpw-hereticEXL3368
darrellbest/Qwen3.8-27B-HereticTransformers323
gjtgjt/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-GGUFGGUF316
darrellbest/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-FP8FP8308
RukaRat/Qwen3.8-27B-INT8-W8A8-imatrix-heretic-MTPCompressed tensors251
hoody424/Qwen3.8-27B-hereticGGUF245
donedynamics/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-MLX-4bitMLX236
SassyDiffusion/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-GGUFGGUF205
donedynamics/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-MLX-8bitMLX168
donedynamics/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-MLX-6bitMLX159
coder3101/Qwen3.8-27B-hereticTransformers147
IanGat0r/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-UD-Q4_K_XLGGUF142
RukaRat/Qwen3.8-27B-W4A16-imatrix-heretic-MTPCompressed tensors142
wy8edhuh/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-Q4_K_M-GGUFGGUF111
OptimizeLLM/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-MTP-BF16Full precision87
iiiTRONiii/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-Q6_K-GGUFGGUF76
Wwayu/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-mlx-4BitMLX75
donedynamics/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-MLX-bf16MLX73
DevJac/Qwen3.8-27B-hereticGGUF67
darrellbest/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-NVFP4NVFP467
signsur4739379373/Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-Q4_K_M-GGUFGGUF66
darkc0de/Qwen3.8-27B-hereticTransformers62
Plus 11 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 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 is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with jakejb53, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.