Qwen3.8 was created by the Qwen team. This is a derivative conversion, not a PocketAI-created base model. PocketAiHub performed a refusal-direction orthogonal projection on 80 language residual-output tensors, then converted and validated the result.

Built with MTPLX 2.7.1 from Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B at revision 1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0. The mixed-precision layout follows Youssofal/Qwen3.8-27B-MTPLX-Optimized-Speed: bulk 4-bit/group 32, embeddings + LM head + GDN output projections + final eight MLP blocks at 8-bit/group 64, sensitive state/norm tensors and the native MTP head in BF16.

Abliteration notice

This research derivative suppresses learned refusal behavior. It is not safer, does not guarantee compliance, and may produce incorrect, harmful, or unpredictable content. Apply appropriate safeguards for your use case.

Use with MTPLX

bash

pip install "mtplx==2.7.1"
mtplx serve --model PocketAiHub/Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated-MTPLX-Optimized-Speed --profile turbo

The OpenAI-compatible API is then available at http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1. The shipped runtime contract selects native MTP depth 3. Official Qwen3.8 target sampling is temperature 1.0, top-p 0.95, top-k 20.

Recommended context: 32K tokens or less. The checkpoint retains Qwen3.8's 262,144-token configured context window, but the MTPLX speed path is currently recommended only through 32K. For longer contexts, use the regular 4-bit MLX release instead.

Measured performance

Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU, 128 GB unified memory), macOS 26.4, single stream, Apple automatic fan control. These are measurements on this exact artifact, not universal hardware guarantees.

Mode	Decode tok/s	End-to-end tok/s	Speedup vs AR	Acceptance by depth
AR	24.74	24.28	1.00×	—
D1	41.55	40.53	1.68×	95.6%
D2	51.55	49.70	2.08×	97.9%, 91.6%
D3	58.05	56.01	2.35×	96.3%, 88.8%, 80.6%

The controlled tune used official Qwen3.8 sampling, thinking disabled, up to 1,024 generated tokens, and selected D3. Download payload: 21.31 GB.

4K context

The prompt contained 4,099 formatted tokens with COBALT-7319 at 59.9% depth. AR and D3 both returned exactly COBALT-7319; greedy outputs were identical.

Mode	Prefill tok/s	Decode tok/s	Prompt eval	Peak process RSS	Peak footprint
AR	602.4	26.4	6.80s	20.9 GB	24.9 GB
D3	615.2	58.4	6.66s	20.9 GB	29.0 GB

The 4K response contained only nine generated tokens, so decode tok/s is more informative than its end-to-end generation rate.

Feature validation

12/12 capability checks
8/8 structured tool-selection checks
reasoning on and reasoning off
OpenAI image_url input: solid-red image identified as red
verified-native MTP contract with all 15 BF16 MTP tensors
262,144-token configured context window; exact 4K retrieval tested; MTPLX usage recommended at 32K or less

The 8/8 tool-selection suite follows the repository's established scorer. In the no-tool control, MTPLX 2.7.1 correctly emitted no tool call but returned an empty body while the tool schema was attached; ordinary text exactness passed separately. PNG/JPEG/WebP image input is live-tested. Video processor metadata is included for checkpoint completeness, but live video-server input was not claimed or tested.

Explicit-refusal screen

Suite	Explicit refusals	Final-answer text	Finish reason
JailbreakBench safety-evaluation set	0/100	100/100	100/100 length
JBB benign	0/100	100/100	100/100 length

This was a deterministic, batch-size-1, thinking-off, 128-token early explicit-refusal screen using a transparent phrase scorer. It does not prove universal compliance, answer correctness, or safety. Raw aggregate methodology is in evaluation/results.json.

These results characterize refusal behavior; a lower refusal rate is not inherently better and is not presented as a quality score, safety improvement, or endorsement of unsafe use.

KL divergence

PocketAiHub measured mean forward KL 0.30906 nats for regular MTPLX → abliterated MTPLX at matched quantization (median 0.01142, p95 1.61390, top-1 agreement 85.94%). The capability-prompt mean was 0.05640; the safety-evaluation subset mean was 0.56171. This isolates additional abliteration drift by comparing checkpoints with the same MTPLX quantization layout. The official 0.0220 value measures a different quantization comparison and must not be reused as the abliteration KL.

Method: 24 prompts (12 capability + 12 pinned JailbreakBench safety-evaluation prompts), 16 BF16-greedy teacher-forced assistant positions per prompt, 384 positions total, all 248,320 vocabulary logits, float32 capture and float64 probability math. Direction is D_KL(P_reference || P_candidate) in nats. Full per-suite and per-case aggregates are in evaluation/kl-summary.json.

Provenance and license

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B by Qwen
MTPLX recipe/runtime: MTPLX by Youssofal
Conversion, validation, packaging, and refusal-direction projection: PocketAiHub
License: Apache-2.0; see LICENSE and NOTICE

Exact build and test summaries are in build-recipe.json and evaluation/results.json.