license: apache-2.0
license_link: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/gemma_4_license
language:

• en
• multilingual
  tags:
• mlx
• mlx-vlm
• gemma4
• gemma-4
• abliterated
• refusal-ablated
• uncensored
• multimodal
• apple-silicon
  library_name: mlx
  pipeline_tag: any-to-any
  base_model: google/gemma-4-12B-it
  base_model_relation: quantized

Gemma-4-12B-uncensored-8bit-mlx

8-bit affine (8.805 bpw) MLX quant of an abliterated (refusal-ablated) google/gemma-4-12B-it — Google's encoder-free unified multimodal model (text · image · audio · video). Quantized for Apple Silicon by Lemura Labs. All vision & audio weights are preserved.

Abliterated model — read this

Refusal directions were surgically removed from the parent via refusal-direction ablation. It will answer many prompts the parent refuses. No new capabilities were added — only refusal behavior was reduced. Use responsibly and within applicable law.

Refusal removal — before / after

The headline result. Measured with the ablation toolkit's evaluator on 100 harmful prompts (mlabonne/harmful_behaviors test[:100]), greedy decoding, refusal-marker classifier:

87 fewer refusals — an 87.9% reduction, at KL divergence 0.053 from the original (≪ 0.5, the damage threshold) → general capabilities preserved. Measured at bf16; quantization preserves the abliteration.

Specs

Inference & compatibility

These are MLX-format quants (Apple Silicon). Format matters — pick the runtime accordingly:

Why the shim / "pending"? Gemma 4 12B is the brand-new gemma4_unified encoder-free architecture. mlx-vlm 0.5.0 ships a gemma4 module that loads the text + projection weights but does not yet implement the image patch-embedder forward, so vision/audio inference in MLX is pending an upstream update. The weights are all here, so it will "just work" once support lands.

Quick start — MLX (text)

pip install -U mlx-vlm torchvision # torchvision is needed by the Gemma-4 processor

# Shim: map gemma4_unified onto mlx-vlm's gemma4 module + tolerate the
# not-yet-modeled vision patch-embedder tensors. Remove once mlx-vlm ships support.
import mlx_vlm.utils as U
U.MODEL_REMAPPING["gemma4_unified"] = "gemma4"
import mlx.nn as nn
_lw = nn.Module.load_weights
nn.Module.load_weights = lambda self, w, strict=True: _lw(self, w, strict=False)

from mlx_vlm import load, generate
model, processor = load("lemuralabs/Gemma-4-12B-uncensored-8bit-mlx")

# Gemma 4 REQUIRES its chat template — a raw string produces garbage (repeated tokens).
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain abliteration in two sentences."}]
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=False)
print(generate(model, processor, prompt, max_tokens=256).text)

Verified: this produces coherent output on Apple Silicon (M-series). The chat template + the shim are both required until mlx-vlm ships native gemma4_unified support.

Running on Mac — inference apps

These are MLX models, so any Apple-Silicon MLX runtime can serve them — once its bundled mlx-lm/mlx-vlm recognizes the gemma4_unified encoder-free arch (text first; vision when the patch-embedder lands upstream). Until then, the Quick start shim above runs text today.

They all build on mlx-lm/mlx-vlm, so gemma4_unified (and the vision path) arrives through that stack. For full multimodal today, run the bf16 repo in transformers.

Vision & audio

Every vision/audio weight (vision_embedder, embed_vision, embed_audio) and the vision_config/audio_config are preserved in this quant.

• In MLX today: text only (see above). Image/audio inference is pending mlx-vlm encoder-free support — no re-quantization will be needed when it lands.
• For image + audio right now, run the bf16 model in transformers (which fully supports gemma4_unified):

pip install -U "transformers>=5.10" torch torchvision librosa accelerate

from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

mid = "google/gemma-4-12B-it" # base model; swap for an abliterated-bf16 repo for refusal-free multimodal
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(mid)
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained(mid, dtype="auto", device_map="auto")

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": [
 {"type": "image", "url": "https://.../photo.jpg"}, # image → key "url"
 {"type": "audio", "audio": "https://.../clip.wav"}, # audio → key "audio" (≤30s)
 {"type": "text", "text": "Describe what you see and hear."},
]}]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=True, return_dict=True,
 return_tensors="pt", add_generation_prompt=True, enable_thinking=False).to(model.device)
n = inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]
out = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=512)
print(processor.parse_response(processor.decode(out[0][n:], skip_special_tokens=False)))

Audio: ≤ 30 s clips (native ASR + speech translation). Images: variable resolution. Video: ≤ 60 s at ~1 fps. For refusal-free multimodal, swap mid for the abliterated bf16 checkpoint (ask Lemura Labs if you need it published).

Quant family

Quantization details

• Tool: mlx-vlm convert (MLX), group size 64, scheme 8-bit affine → 8.805 bpw, ~13.7 GB.
• Weight-complete: the 48-layer language model is quantized; the vision patch-embedder (vision_embedder, 9 tensors) is re-inserted at bf16 and vision_config/audio_config retained — every original tensor is present.

Lineage

google/gemma-4-12B (Google DeepMind — base pretrain)
 ↓ instruction tuning
google/gemma-4-12B-it (multimodal, encoder-free)
 ↓ the ablation toolkit 1.3.0 — directional ablation, Optuna/TPE-optimized over 100 trials, best Pareto trial #55
abliterated bf16 (refusals 99→12 / 100, KL 0.053)
 ↓ mlx-vlm quantization (Lemura Labs)
this repo — 8-bit affine, MLX

Credits

License

Apache-2.0 (inherited from the base). Also subject to the Gemma 4 Terms of Use.