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RichardErkhov/mlabonne_-_NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated-gguf

RichardErkhov 8B GGUF 8K ctx
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Abliteration classifier · v1.0.0
M8
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  • author=richarderkhov (M8 quantization producer)
  • is_gguf=1
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created 2024-06-15
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Quantizations
IQ3 IQ4 Q2_K Q3_K Q4 Q4_K Q5 Q5_K Q6_K Q8_0
Tags
gguf endpoints_compatible region:us conversational

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Total size
100 GB
Files
24
Quantizations
11
Registered
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Last updated on HF
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Files by quantization

Q8_0 1 file 7.95 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q8_0.gguf 7.95 GB 3eafa2c5 download
Q6_K 1 file 6.14 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q6_K.gguf 6.14 GB 5f0a5382 download
Q5 2 files 10.9 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_1.gguf 5.65 GB d72176d8 download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_0.gguf 5.21 GB 80bbd290 download
Q5_K 3 files 15.9 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_K.gguf 5.34 GB cfa8521d download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_K_M.gguf 5.34 GB cfa8521d download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_K_S.gguf 5.21 GB 2dbfa537 download
Q4 2 files 9.12 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_1.gguf 4.78 GB 612202f8 download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_0.gguf 4.34 GB 75b91599 download
Q4_K 3 files 13.5 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_K.gguf 4.58 GB 35b210f6 download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_K_M.gguf 4.58 GB 35b210f6 download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_K_S.gguf 4.37 GB 7410ca7e download
IQ4 2 files 8.56 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ4_NL.gguf 4.38 GB 0d9abd0f download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ4_XS.gguf 4.18 GB fb00588b download
Q3_K 4 files 14.9 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q3_K_L.gguf 4.03 GB 001a1c25 download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q3_K.gguf 3.74 GB cae653a2 download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q3_K_M.gguf 3.74 GB cae653a2 download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q3_K_S.gguf 3.41 GB 805c0474 download
IQ3 3 files 10.2 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ3_M.gguf 3.52 GB bf0e7b8e download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ3_S.gguf 3.43 GB e3cacc36 download
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ3_XS.gguf 3.28 GB f284a3b2 download
Q2_K 1 file 2.96 GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q2_K.gguf 2.96 GB 7dbff43f download
Auxiliary files 2 files 14.7 KB
README.md 11.5 KB a9b2b3b0 download
.gitattributes 3.16 KB 61eb44c2 download

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Quantization made by Richard Erkhov.

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NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated - GGUF

Name Quant method Size
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q2_K.gguf Q2_K 2.96GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ3_XS.gguf IQ3_XS 3.28GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ3_S.gguf IQ3_S 3.43GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q3_K_S.gguf Q3_K_S 3.41GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ3_M.gguf IQ3_M 3.52GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q3_K.gguf Q3_K 3.74GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q3_K_M.gguf Q3_K_M 3.74GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q3_K_L.gguf Q3_K_L 4.03GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ4_XS.gguf IQ4_XS 4.18GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_0.gguf Q4_0 4.34GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.IQ4_NL.gguf IQ4_NL 4.38GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_K_S.gguf Q4_K_S 4.37GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_K.gguf Q4_K 4.58GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_K_M.gguf Q4_K_M 4.58GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q4_1.gguf Q4_1 4.78GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_0.gguf Q5_0 5.21GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_K_S.gguf Q5_K_S 5.21GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_K.gguf Q5_K 5.34GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_K_M.gguf Q5_K_M 5.34GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q5_1.gguf Q5_1 5.65GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q6_K.gguf Q6_K 6.14GB
NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated.Q8_0.gguf Q8_0 7.95GB

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NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated

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This is a DPO fine-tune of mlabonne/Daredevil-8-abliterated, trained on one epoch of mlabonne/orpo-dpo-mix-40k.
The DPO fine-tuning successfully recovers the performance loss due to the abliteration process, making it an excellent uncensored model.

🔎 Applications

NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated performs better than the Instruct model on my tests.

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

Thanks to QuantFactory, Zoyd, and solidrust for providint these quants.

🏆 Evaluation

Open LLM Leaderboard

NeuralDaredevil-8B is the best-performing uncensored 8B model on the Open LLM Leaderboard (MMLU score).

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Nous

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

Model Average AGIEval GPT4All TruthfulQA Bigbench
mlabonne/NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterated 📄 55.87 43.73 73.6 59.36 46.8
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
NousResearch/Hermes-2-Theta-Llama-3-8B 📄 54.28 43.9 72.62 56.36 44.23
openchat/openchat-3.6-8b-20240522 📄 53.49 44.03 73.67 49.78 46.48
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct 📄 51.34 41.22 69.86 51.65 42.64
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B 📄 45.42 31.1 69.95 43.91 36.7

🌳 Model family tree

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💻 Usage

!pip install -qU transformers accelerate

from transformers import AutoTokenizer
import transformers
import torch

model = "mlabonne/Daredevil-8B"
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"])

README history 1 version

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