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Abliteration classifier · v1.0.0
M8
Primary method

Repackaging (quantization)

Applied on top of direct removal inherited from the base model.
Confidence
HIGH
Inherited from base model
Why this label 3 signals
Producer identity confirmed by naming conventions, tags or the model card. This label is very unlikely to change.
  • author=bartowski (M8 quantization producer)
  • is_gguf=1
  • base_model='mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated' looks abliterated -> assume M1
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Downloads · lifetime
114K
12K last 30d - stable
Likes
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Model age
2.2y ago
created 2024-07-25
Downloads over time
Now119.6K→from229↑52,131%
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Benchmarks

Benchmark Score Source
BBH average 0.4379296925671293 OpenLLM-v2
IFEval instruct 0.7757793764988009 OpenLLM-v2
IFEval-Prompt 0.6931608133086876 OpenLLM-v2
MATH lvl 5 0.06419939577039276 OpenLLM-v2
MMLU-Pro 0.3503158244680851 OpenLLM-v2

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Variants by this author 2 formats · 12K downloads combined

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Metadata

License
llama3.1
Quantizations
IQ2 IQ3 IQ4 Q2_K Q3_K Q4_K Q5_K Q6_K Q8_0
Tags
transformers gguf text-generation base_model:mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated base_model:quantized:mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated license:llama3.1 endpoints_compatible region:us conversational

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Total size
116 GB
Files
23
Quantizations
10
Registered
2026-08-22 13:56
Last updated on HF
2024-07-28 04:53

Files by quantization

Q8_0 1 file 7.95 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q8_0.gguf 7.95 GB cf2c705c download
Q6_K 2 files 12.5 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q6_K_L.gguf 6.38 GB b410d5e3 download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q6_K.gguf 6.14 GB b4097a1d download
Q5_K 3 files 16.2 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q5_K_L.gguf 5.64 GB f1b4e1fa download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q5_K_M.gguf 5.34 GB 2482bfe5 download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q5_K_S.gguf 5.21 GB 8c73075e download
Q4_K 3 files 13.9 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q4_K_L.gguf 4.95 GB 9a4b03ec download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf 4.58 GB c6be8665 download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q4_K_S.gguf 4.37 GB 02fdfb3b download
Q3_K 4 files 15.6 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q3_K_XL.gguf 4.45 GB 14f57940 download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q3_K_L.gguf 4.03 GB 07760140 download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q3_K_M.gguf 3.74 GB 066bfa70 download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q3_K_S.gguf 3.41 GB 2eff2449 download
IQ4 1 file 4.14 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-IQ4_XS.gguf 4.14 GB 5dc23d0e download
IQ3 2 files 6.80 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-IQ3_M.gguf 3.52 GB 8423ccf7 download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-IQ3_XS.gguf 3.28 GB e2cd9cb7 download
Q2_K 2 files 6.40 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q2_K_L.gguf 3.44 GB 73838b7c download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q2_K.gguf 2.96 GB ef4cce5a download
IQ2 1 file 2.75 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-IQ2_M.gguf 2.75 GB 52823bda download
Auxiliary files 4 files 29.9 GB
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-f32.gguf 29.9 GB 1f259ac0 download
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated.imatrix 4.76 MB 86431adf download
README.md 9.30 KB e059db67 download
.gitattributes 3.25 KB 45cb5a1b download

README current version from Hugging Face


base_model: mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated
library_name: transformers
license: llama3.1
pipeline_tag: text-generation
quantized_by: bartowski

Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated

Using llama.cpp release b3472 for quantization.

Original model: https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated

All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here

Run them in LM Studio

Prompt format

<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|>

{system_prompt}<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|>

{prompt}<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>

Download a file (not the whole branch) from below:

Filename Quant type File Size Split Description
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-f32.gguf f32 32.13GB false Full F32 weights.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q8_0.gguf Q8_0 8.54GB false Extremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q6_K_L.gguf Q6_K_L 6.85GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q6_K.gguf Q6_K 6.60GB false Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q5_K_L.gguf Q5_K_L 6.06GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q5_K_M.gguf Q5_K_M 5.73GB false High quality, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q5_K_S.gguf Q5_K_S 5.60GB false High quality, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q4_K_L.gguf Q4_K_L 5.31GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf Q4_K_M 4.92GB false Good quality, default size for must use cases, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q3_K_XL.gguf Q3_K_XL 4.78GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q4_K_S.gguf Q4_K_S 4.69GB false Slightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-IQ4_XS.gguf IQ4_XS 4.45GB false Decent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q3_K_L.gguf Q3_K_L 4.32GB false Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q3_K_M.gguf Q3_K_M 4.02GB false Low quality.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-IQ3_M.gguf IQ3_M 3.78GB false Medium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q2_K_L.gguf Q2_K_L 3.69GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q3_K_S.gguf Q3_K_S 3.66GB false Low quality, not recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-IQ3_XS.gguf IQ3_XS 3.52GB false Lower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3_K_S.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q2_K.gguf Q2_K 3.18GB false Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-IQ2_M.gguf IQ2_M 2.95GB false Relatively low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be surprisingly usable.

Credits

Thank you kalomaze and Dampf for assistance in creating the imatrix calibration dataset

Thank you ZeroWw for the inspiration to experiment with embed/output

Downloading using huggingface-cli

First, make sure you have hugginface-cli installed:

pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"

Then, you can target the specific file you want:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-GGUF --include "Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf" --local-dir ./

If the model is bigger than 50GB, it will have been split into multiple files. In order to download them all to a local folder, run:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-GGUF --include "Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q8_0.gguf/*" --local-dir Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q8_0

You can either specify a new local-dir (Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

Which file should I choose?

A great write up with charts showing various performances is provided by Artefact2 here

The first thing to figure out is how big a model you can run. To do this, you'll need to figure out how much RAM and/or VRAM you have.

If you want your model running as FAST as possible, you'll want to fit the whole thing on your GPU's VRAM. Aim for a quant with a file size 1-2GB smaller than your GPU's total VRAM.

If you want the absolute maximum quality, add both your system RAM and your GPU's VRAM together, then similarly grab a quant with a file size 1-2GB Smaller than that total.

Next, you'll need to decide if you want to use an 'I-quant' or a 'K-quant'.

If you don't want to think too much, grab one of the K-quants. These are in format 'QX_K_X', like Q5_K_M.

If you want to get more into the weeds, you can check out this extremely useful feature chart:

llama.cpp feature matrix

But basically, if you're aiming for below Q4, and you're running cuBLAS (Nvidia) or rocBLAS (AMD), you should look towards the I-quants. These are in format IQX_X, like IQ3_M. These are newer and offer better performance for their size.

These I-quants can also be used on CPU and Apple Metal, but will be slower than their K-quant equivalent, so speed vs performance is a tradeoff you'll have to decide.

The I-quants are not compatible with Vulcan, which is also AMD, so if you have an AMD card double check if you're using the rocBLAS build or the Vulcan build. At the time of writing this, LM Studio has a preview with ROCm support, and other inference engines have specific builds for ROCm.

Want to support my work? Visit my ko-fi page here: https://ko-fi.com/bartowski

README history 2 versions

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Discussions 3 threads

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