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Spark-X2.6-4B-abliterated

Spark-X2.6-4B-abliterated is a refusal-ablated variant of XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B, published on Hugging Face by FrostWolfAI. It is 4B parameters, single consumer GPU class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 8 repositories in GGUF, Transformers, MLX and GGUF (imatrix) formats, totalling 9.2K downloads.

Abliteration (directional ablation)4BOther4B – 10B↓ 9,169♥ 12

Specification

Model name
Spark-X2.6-4B-abliterated
Publisher
FrostWolfAI
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, MLX, GGUF (imatrix)
First indexed
21 Oct 2026
Last updated
31 Oct 2026

Ablation technique

How Spark-X2.6-4B-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

“Heretic v2.0.0.dev0 using Arbitrary-Rank Ablation (ARA). Spark-X2.6's architecture is untouched - 36 layers in a 3:1 pattern of sliding-window (512) and global attention, head-wise sigmoid attention gates, fused QKV, tied embeddings and the 1,048,576-token context - along with its DeepSeek-style chat template...”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download FrostWolfAI/Spark-X2.6-4B-abliterated-GGUF --local-dir ./spark-x2.6-4b-abliterated
llama-cli -m ./spark-x2.6-4b-abliterated/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "FrostWolfAI/Spark-X2.6-4B-abliterated"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve FrostWolfAI/Spark-X2.6-4B-abliterated --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (7)

Every published repository of Spark-X2.6-4B-abliterated, 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.

  • Spark-X2.6-4B-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 XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B, 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 XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B’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 Spark-X2.6-4B-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 FrostWolfAI, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.