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Abliteration classifier · v1.0.0
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Primary method

Direct removal

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Difference-of-means

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Why we say so
primary_method=M1; difference-of-means is the reference extraction for M1/M3 (Arditi 2024)
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created 2025-03-29
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safetensors llama 4-bit awq region:us

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5.33 GB
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Registered
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Last updated on HF
2025-03-29 08:58

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model-00001-of-00002.safetensors 4.36 GB 7609ecef download
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors 1002 MB 2de60b97 download
tokenizer.json 16.4 MB 3c5cf440 download
model.safetensors.index.json 59.1 KB 2eaf6e33 download
tokenizer_config.json 49.8 KB d976c48f download
README.md 4.15 KB dcf70078 download
.gitattributes 1.53 KB 52373fe2 download
config.json 916 B 2924de3c download
special_tokens_map.json 301 B cfabacc2 download
generation_config.json 194 B 2c3dc437 download

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Quantization made by Richard Erkhov.

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Daredevil-8B-abliterated - AWQ

Original model description:

library_name: transformers
license: other

Daredevil-8B-abliterated

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Abliterated version of mlabonne/Daredevil-8B using failspy's notebook.

It based on the technique described in the blog post "Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction".

Thanks to Andy Arditi, Oscar Balcells Obeso, Aaquib111, Wes Gurnee, Neel Nanda, and failspy.

🔎 Applications

This is an uncensored model. You can use it for any application that doesn't require alignment, like role-playing.

Tested on LM Studio using the "Llama 3" preset.

⚡ Quantization

🏆 Evaluation

Open LLM Leaderboard

Daredevil-8B-abliterated is the second best-performing 8B model on the Open LLM Leaderboard in terms of MMLU score (27 May 24).

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Nous

Evaluation performed using LLM AutoEval. See the entire leaderboard here.

Model Average AGIEval GPT4All TruthfulQA Bigbench
mlabonne/Daredevil-8B 📄 55.87 44.13 73.52 59.05 46.77
mlabonne/Daredevil-8B-abliterated 📄 55.06 43.29 73.33 57.47 46.17
mlabonne/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-abliterated-dpomix 📄 52.26 41.6 69.95 54.22 43.26
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct 📄 51.34 41.22 69.86 51.65 42.64
failspy/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v3 📄 51.21 40.23 69.5 52.44 42.69
mlabonne/OrpoLlama-3-8B 📄 48.63 34.17 70.59 52.39 37.36
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B 📄 45.42 31.1 69.95 43.91 36.7

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💻 Usage

!pip install -qU transformers accelerate

from transformers import AutoTokenizer
import transformers
import torch

model = "mlabonne/Daredevil-8B-abliterated"
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "What is a large language model?"}]

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model)
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
pipeline = transformers.pipeline(
    "text-generation",
    model=model,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto",
)

outputs = pipeline(prompt, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=True, temperature=0.7, top_k=50, top_p=0.95)
print(outputs[0]["generated_text"])

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