DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Heretic — merged GGUF (UD-Q8_K_XL)
⚠️ Content warning: This model has had its refusal behavior surgically
suppressed. It
will comply with requests the base model refuses,
including requests that are harmful, unethical, offensive, or illegal. It
has reduced safety guardrails. See
Responsible use
below —
you are solely responsible for what you do with it.
This is a
decensored / "abliterated" variant of
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
(284B total / 13B active MoE, MIT license), produced with
heretic-gguf —
a GGUF-native port of
Heretic's
Optuna-optimized directional ablation, which runs the whole search directly
on quantized GGUF weights via llama.cpp.
This repository contains the merged, ready-to-run model (UD-Q8_K_XL,
5 shards): the ablation is baked directly into the weights, no adapter
needed. It was produced by copy-and-patch from the official Unsloth
UD-Q8_K_XL — every tensor except the ablated ones is
byte-identical to
the base; the edited tensors went through one extra requantization step
(a small, tensor-local rounding error). If you want the
lossless option,
a rank-1 LoRA adapter GGUF with the identical ablation is published at
MoriNoNushi/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-heretic-GGUF-lora
— apply it on top of any base quant with
llama-server --lora.
heretic-gguf is available at
github.com/MoriNoNushi/heretic-gguf —
the full tool, so the method can be applied to other GGUF models.
In initial hands-on testing the abliterated model shows excellent general
capabilities — responses remain coherent, detailed on normal tasks — and
it has not refused a prompt during personal testing. (Anecdotal, not a
benchmark; see the measured numbers below.)
Results
Measured on a held-out eval set of 140 harmful prompts (100 from
mlabonne/harmful_behaviors test + 40 custom) and 100 harmless prompts
(mlabonne/harmless_alpaca test), greedy decoding, 100-token responses,
against the UD-Q8_K_XL base:
| Refusal rate (harmful prompts) | KL divergence (harmless prompts) |
|---|
| Base model | 99.29% (139/140) | 0 (by definition) |
| This model | 14.29% (20/140) | 0.0569 |
Refusals are counted by refusal-keyword matching (English + Chinese markers);
KL divergence is measured on first-token logits on harmless prompts, so lower
= less collateral damage to normal behavior. This configuration was the
Pareto-optimal point of a 387-trial Optuna study: the only trial with fewer
refusals cost KL 0.089 (57% more drift), and the only trial tying its refusal
rate had strictly higher KL. (Scores were measured on the lossless adapter
overlay; the merged weights implement the identical ablation, up to the one
requantization step described above.)
Usage
1llama-server \
2 -m DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-heretic-UD-Q8_K_XL-00001-of-00005.gguf \
3 --jinja
Add your usual offload/context flags (-ngl 999, -c, tensor splits,
etc.) — nothing model-specific is required, and no special sampling
parameters are needed.
How it was made
- Method: directional ablation ("abliteration") — the refusal direction
in residual space (difference of means over 480 harmful / 480 harmless
prompts, orthogonalized against the harmless mean) is projected out of the
attention output and MoE down-projection weights. Strengths, layer kernel,
and direction index were tuned by multi-objective Optuna TPE (minimize
refusal rate and KL jointly) across a base study and three seeded
follow-up studies — 1,822 trials total (514 + 513 + 408 + 387).
- Winning configuration (study
followup3, trial 25): global direction
scope, direction index 21.05 of 43 layers; attn max weight 4.49 @ layer 29;
routed-expert MLP max weight 1.06 (per-expert strengths scaled by measured
harmful/harmless routing frequency); shared-expert weight 0.48.
- Why merged: heretic-gguf expresses ablation as a rank-1 LoRA overlay
(the same math stock Heretic writes into PEFT adapters); for this release
the winning overlay was merged into the weights by streaming the base
shards, dequantizing only the ablated tensors, applying the exact full-rank
delta, and requantizing to the original tensor types. Convenient single
artifact at the cost of one extra quantization step on the edited tensors.
Responsible use & disclaimer
- This model can generate content that is offensive, disturbing, hateful,
sexually explicit, violent, or otherwise objectionable, including detailed
instructions for harmful or illegal acts. That is the direct and intended
consequence of removing refusal behavior.
- The ablation suppresses refusals, not the base model's knowledge —
outputs on dangerous topics may be wrong, hallucinated, or incoherent.
Nothing this model says should be treated as accurate, safe, or legal
advice.
- Do not deploy this model in any production system, public-facing service,
or multi-user setting. It is intended for personal research,
red-teaming, and evaluation purposes.
- You, the user, are solely responsible for any output this model produces
and for any consequences of using it. The authors of this release, of
heretic-gguf, of Heretic, of Unsloth, and of DeepSeek accept no liability
whatsoever. Using this model to produce illegal content or to harm others
is your choice and your legal exposure — ensure your use complies with all
applicable laws in your jurisdiction.
- By downloading or using this model you acknowledge the above.
License
The base model is MIT-licensed (see the
base repo);
this model inherits those terms. The heretic-gguf tooling used to produce
it is AGPL-3.0-or-later.