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Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated

Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated is a refusal-ablated variant of ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b, published on Hugging Face by grimlee. It is 27B parameters, 48GB VRAM class class and other licence. It is distributed across 4 repositories in Transformers, GGUF and GGUF (imatrix) formats, totalling 7.2K downloads.

Abliteration (directional ablation)27BQwen25B – 50B↓ 7,202♥ 1

Specification

Model name
Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated
Publisher
grimlee
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
other
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix)
First indexed
6 Oct 2026
Last updated
7 Oct 2026

Ablation technique

How Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-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

“The objective of this model is to substantially reduce refusal behavior while preserving the capabilities of the original Swift-1.5 checkpoint as closely as possible.”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated-GGUF --local-dir ./swift-1.5-qwen3.8-27b-abliterated
llama-cli -m ./swift-1.5-qwen3.8-27b-abliterated/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "grimlee/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve grimlee/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (3)

Every published repository of Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-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.

  • Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-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 ukisai/Swift-1.5-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 other, but the terms that bind you are ukisai/Swift-1.5-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 Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-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 grimlee, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.