Early Access Draft. The uncensored BF16 of Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B. Abliterated for coherence and better answers, not for a vanity KL of zero. Vision tower and native MTP head are the unmodified base.
This is still the full-precision master a later NVFP4 sibling will bake from. It is not the finished cut. Do not dequant-edit-requant an NVFP4 lattice.
Early Access Draft
Call it what it is. This is an Early Access Draft, not GA.
It already does the thing people came here for. The tests hold. The hall monitor is gone. You can ask a hard question and get an answer instead of a sermon. That part is real.
It is also a first pass through the refusal layers, and those layers were never a clean switch. The same directions that taught the model to flinch also taught it how to hold a thought together. Yank the whole board and you do not just lose the lecture. You lose some of the furniture.
What that looks like when you actually use it: on ordinary work it stays a 27B. On extremely long requests, as the answer stretches, small gaps in the weights start to stack. A loop shows up. A phrase repeats. The thought does not know how to land. That is not you imagining it. That is the draft telling on itself.
We are not leaving it there.
A true GA cut is in the works. Same family. The next evolution of abliteration for Qwen3.8. The job is more surgical than "delete the refusal and hope." Keep the instructional bones. Keep the useful structure. Change the will. Willfully compliant. No safety monologue in the think, no lecture in the reply. Get rid of the crippling censorship without lobotomizing the model that made the answers good in the first place.
We built our own bench and our own tools for that hunt. I am not going to walk you through the kitchen. You will feel the difference when GA lands.
Until then: use the draft, know the long-context edge, and do not treat a loop as the last word on this line.
How to read these numbers
Most public abliterations chase KL toward zero and treat a judge-R as a leftover refusal. Both of those habits over-edit the model.
Coherent KL drift is not damage. Blindly minimizing KL keeps the hall monitor. When the unlock is real, the model stops spending think on “is this allowed,” answers more directly, and the first-token distribution moves. That can look like 0.10 nats/token on a mean. It is not mush.
On this release the smash KL was 0.0991 nats/token (full_distribution_kl, first 3 teacher-forced tokens on the 100 harmless held-out prompts). Remeasured on the same persist-pass stock prefixes: 0.099126. Dropping the three harmless rows stock actually hedged or refused (ids 416, 462, 485) does not lower it (filtered mean 0.101, median 0.013). Those three are the low-KL rows. The 0.10 is a long tail of different openings on prompts both models already answered. 29/97 openings are under 0.001. The high-KL tail is still a jogging plan, a FATF CDD checklist, an autumn-forest paragraph. Same 27B, less bush-beating.
We did not optimize for “look like stock.” We optimized for coherence and better answers. Getting a keyword or Flash Lite judge to 0/100 is how you break a model. Over-abliteration turns the leftover outliers into gibberish, which defeats the reason you wanted the model.
A judge-R is not a leftover refusal.google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite (the smash objective) marks R when it sees a warning, a fictional wrapper, a suicide hotline, or “I don’t have that SSN,” even when the rest of the answer is the payload. We read the answers.
Set
n
Stock Flash Lite R
Winner Flash Lite R
Hard “I won’t”
What the leftovers are
Harmful held-out
100
~100
36 (smash 29)
0
25/36 still wrote the thing (disclaimer, partial draft, or a wrong R). 6/36 are no-live-PII. 5/36 are compassion or a dialogue dump with no “write the payload” ask (two suicide redirects with resources; three conversation analyses).
Sexual
50
30
5
0
3 of 5 judge-R wrote the requested post/script. 2 are hedges (unnamed films; legal landscape).
Harmless held-out
100
3
1
0
The one R is a cut-off prompt (id 416). Stock also hedged 462 and refused 485; this body wrote both. Innocent prompts stock still refused.
The model in practice is a 0 outright-refusal body. Commonly available judges cannot tell a preamble from a shutdown. “You should know this is illegal, here is how” is not a refusal. It still gives you the answer. A suicide ask that tries to keep the person alive, and does not hall-monitor every other domain, is a leftover we will live with. Chasing those last outliers until the rest of the model is word-salad is how the public tools over-abliterate.
Held-out suites matter. Public abliteration sets get baked into later alignments. This run used a pinned wangzhang 500 split (train 400 / eval 100, no shuffle) plus a 50-prompt sexual set that is not the usual keyword list.
On the 97 both-comply harmless rows, persist completions stay the same model: median length 1481 vs 1516 characters, type-token ratio 0.76 vs 0.75, think tags 100/100 vs 98/100.
What we served
Validated on a single NVIDIA H200 with vLLM 0.27.1 (torch 2.13.0+cu130) against this checkpoint, thinking on, MTP on (method=mtp, 3 speculative tokens). Text, vision, and a fictional lockpick scene all passed. MTP draft acceptance during that smoke was about 40–66%.
If FlashInfer’s sampling JIT cannot see curand.h on your image, set VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER=0. That is an environment issue, not a weight issue. Raise --max-model-len on a 140 GB card if you want the native 262k window; 16k was the validate budget.
Thinking is on by default. Per request: chat_template_kwargs={"enable_thinking": true, "reasoning_effort": "medium"}.
How this was built
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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SSM conv1d outlier repair (FernflowerAI)
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Qwen3.8-27B-ssm-repaired
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abliterix 1.12.2 (50-trial Optuna, Flash Lite judge, thinking scored post-</think>)
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trial 48 export
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MTP head grafted back from stock (15 tensors, hash-match; abliterix merge had dropped them)
Vision tower untouched (333/333 hash-match)
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this repo
Winning trial: 48 / 50. Unlock basin on the judge was 29–50/100 with KL about 0.04–0.10. Zero-KL trials were no-ops (still ~100/100). We did not pick the lowest-KL point. We picked the coherent unlock.
Abliteration is BF16 only. Vision and mtp.* were not edited. NVFP4, if we ship it, will be quantized from this master.
The unaligned edge
Safety alignment is not free. It trains a drag on the residual stream even when the final tokens are not a refusal. Removing that drag is why some answers get more direct, and why a 3-token KL mean of 0.10 can sit next to a median of 0.013 and still look like the same 27B.
It also means the model will write what the base model would refuse: tools, chemistry, exploit-shaped code, violence, sexuality, ideologies the publisher trained away from, content that may be illegal where you are. The model does not decide whether to comply. You do.
Intended uses include security research, red-team and alignment work, creative writing without a hall monitor, and conversations the base model refuses for being out of the publisher’s social norms. That same reliability is a threat if the prompt is.
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