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Abliteration classifier · v1.0.0
M4
Primary method

Abliterate + heal

Applied on top of direct removal inherited from the base model.
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MEDIUM
Inherited from base model
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  • author=mlabonne (NeuralDaredevil M4 heal pipeline signature)
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created 2024-05-26
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transformers safetensors llama text-generation conversational base_model:mlabonne/Daredevil-8B base_model:finetune:mlabonne/Daredevil-8B license:other text-generation-inference endpoints_compatible region:us

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Quantizations
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Last updated on HF
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model-00002-of-00004.safetensors 4.66 GB a045a1d1 download
model-00001-of-00004.safetensors 4.63 GB 81b99c36 download
model-00003-of-00004.safetensors 4.58 GB ba18a636 download
model-00004-of-00004.safetensors 1.09 GB 34c07e17 download
tokenizer.json 8.66 MB b197f72e download
tokenizer_config.json 49.8 KB 3768732c download
model.safetensors.index.json 23.4 KB 0fd8120f download
README.md 3.81 KB 3538673a download
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config.json 728 B 3f7b7b2d download
special_tokens_map.json 301 B cfabacc2 download
generation_config.json 186 B c3f3cad5 download

README current version from Hugging Face


library_name: transformers
license: other
base_model:

  • mlabonne/Daredevil-8B

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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