Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic
A decensored variant of Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B, produced with Heretic v1.4.0 (directional ablation / "abliteration"). Refusal behavior is suppressed via targeted weight edits to the attention output and MLP down-projections rather than fine-tuning, so the base model's knowledge and instruction-following are left largely intact.
Who this is for: developers who want a tiny, fast Qwen3.5 model without refusals - the 0.8B hybrid linear-attention core runs on CPU and edge devices, with strong speed and long-context handling for its size. Not a capability upgrade over base Qwen3.5-0.8B - same model, refusal guardrails removed.
Runs on your gaming PC
Full GGUF ladder included — pick the quant that fits your card:
| Your GPU | Recommended quant | Weights |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 / 4070 / 5070 (12 GB) | Q8_0 | 0.81 GB |
| RTX 4060 / 3070 (8 GB) | Q6_K | 0.63 GB |
| GTX 1660 Super / 2060 / 3050 laptop (6 GB) | Q5_K_M | 0.58 GB |
| CPU-only / Apple Silicon | Q4_K_M | 0.53 GB, fits in system RAM |
Weights only, at this model's ~0.9B native size; add ~1 GB for context. OOM? Drop one quant level. Headroom to spare? Go one up.
Why abliteration instead of fine-tuning
Fine-tuning a "helpful" persona on top of RLHF'd refusals fights the base model's training and tends to degrade coherence. Abliteration instead finds and edits the specific weight directions responsible for refusal, leaving the rest of the network (and its capabilities) untouched. See the Heretic repo and the original abliteration writeup for the mechanism.
Files
GGUF quantizations
Full quantization set (14 quants + F16) produced with llama.cpp.
| File | Format | Size |
|---|---|---|
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-F16.gguf | GGUF F16 | 1.41 GB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q2_K.gguf | GGUF Q2_K | 403 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-IQ3_S.gguf | GGUF IQ3_S | 430 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q3_K_S.gguf | GGUF Q3_K_S | 415 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q3_K_M.gguf | GGUF Q3_K_M | 445 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q3_K_L.gguf | GGUF Q3_K_L | 469 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-IQ4_XS.gguf | GGUF IQ4_XS | 482 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q4_K_S.gguf | GGUF Q4_K_S | 482 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q4_0.gguf | GGUF Q4_0 | 478 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q4_1.gguf | GGUF Q4_1 | 508 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q4_K_M.gguf | GGUF Q4_K_M | 505 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q5_K_S.gguf | GGUF Q5_K_S | 538 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q5_K_M.gguf | GGUF Q5_K_M | 551 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q6_K.gguf | GGUF Q6_K | 601 MB |
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q8_0.gguf | GGUF Q8_0 | 774 MB |
Qwen3.5 hybrid linear-attention architecture — loads natively in llama.cpp / Ollama / LM Studio / Jan.
Run llama serve -hf saidutta69/Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic to pull the default quant.
Quickstart
# llama.cpp - defaults to the Q4_K_M quant
llama serve -hf saidutta69/Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic:Q4_K_M
# transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model_name = "saidutta69/Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
# ... inference code
Also runnable via Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, vLLM, SGLang.
Responsible use
Refusal suppression is deliberate and works as intended: this model will comply with requests the base model would refuse, including some it shouldn't. There is no safety filtering layered on top. You are responsible for how you deploy it.
Made with ❤️ by RACER IS OP — follow for more uncensored models
License
Inherits the apache-2.0 license from the base model.