Previous abliteration attempts on this model resulted in regressions on the UGI Leaderboard. Specifically, the NatInt (Natural Intelligence), Textbook, and World Model scores were significantly reduced.

We suspect this degradation occurs because the "refusal" vectors in Llama-3.3 are heavily entangled with factual knowledge and reasoning capabilities located in the MLP layers. When the MLP is ablated to remove refusals, "Textbook" knowledge is lost as collateral damage.

This version ("Paperbliteration") uses a constrained optimization strategy via a Custom Heretic aimed at mitigating this issue:

MLP Preservation: The optimization was constrained to effectively ignore MLP layers (down_proj weights < 0.05) to preserve knowledge and reasoning capabilities.
Attention Targeting: Refusal removal was offloaded to the Attention layers (o_proj), with weights forced between 1.0 and 2.0.
Winsorization: Applied at the 0.95 quantile to mitigate the impact of Llama-3's massive activation outliers on vector calculation.

Heretic Parameters (Trial 164)

Parameter	Value	Note
direction_index	40.37	Mid-stack intervention
attn.o_proj.max_weight	1.99	High Attention Ablation
attn.o_proj.max_weight_position	50.92
attn.o_proj.min_weight	1.96
attn.o_proj.min_weight_distance	44.69
mlp.down_proj.max_weight	0.04	Knowledge Preservation (Near Zero)
mlp.down_proj.max_weight_position	50.87
mlp.down_proj.min_weight	0.04
mlp.down_proj.min_weight_distance	26.10

Reproducibility

Currently, constraits are not part of standard heretic. You will need this PR here.

Command Used:

bash

heretic --model KaraKaraWitch/GoldDiamondGold-L33-70b \
 --orthogonalize-direction \
 --row-normalization FULL \
 --winsorization-quantile 0.95 \
 --constraints.layer-end-fraction 0.75 \
 --constraints.mlp.max-weight-min 0.0 \
 --constraints.mlp.max-weight-max 0.05 \
 --constraints.attention.max-weight-min 1.0 \
 --constraints.attention.max-weight-max 2.0 \
 --n-trials 200 \
 --batch-size 128 #  Not strictly needed

Evaluation

Metric	This Model	Standard Abliteration	Original Model
KL Divergence	0.0055	~0.0139	0
Refusals	12/100	~9/100	94/100

KL Divergence: 0.0055 indicates extremely low deviation from the base model's weights, suggesting high preservation of the original model's "Textbook" capabilities.
Trade-off: This method accepts a slightly higher refusal rate (+3/100 compared to unconstrained abliteration) in exchange for structural and semantic integrity.

KaraKaraWarehouse/Golddiamondgold-Paperbliteration-L33-70b

GoldDiamondGold-Paperbliteration-L33-70b

Methodology

Heretic Parameters (Trial 164)

Reproducibility

Evaluation

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Golddiamondgold-Paperbliteration-L33-70b