No n=2800 paired certificate exists for this model. Any numbers below are
point estimates with no confidence interval.
📄 Read the whitepaper (PDF) — full method, receipts and certification.
The PDF is the authoritative document: dark-typeset, with the complete derivation, the
per-axis certificate and the reproducibility hashes.
Why this exists
Standard abliteration removes a coarse refusal direction that is entangled with
directions carrying knowledge and reasoning. The result is an uncensored model with a
capability tax that is almost never measured.
Ektomē (ἐκτομή, excision) isolates and removes only the refusal-specific
component, leaving general helpfulness intact, and does so norm-preservingly on the
pristine model — no training, no distillation, no damage to repair. The extraction
depth is selected per model by automated search against measured compliance.
The estimator, excision operator and depth-selection procedure are proprietary.
What is published here is the measured outcome and the evidence for it, which you
can verify against the artifacts in this repo.
The receipt
No compliance/MMLU receipt was recorded for this model. The evidence below is the certificate.
The certificate
Capability retention is certified by a paired non-inferiority test against the pristine
model (exact McNemar, Holm-corrected, one-sided bootstrap bound on the drop $d$ vs a
3% margin):
axis
n
ref
cand
d upper
verdict
MMLU-val (POINT ESTIMATE, n=200, no CI)
200
0.000
0.000
+0.000
UNCERTIFIED
Overall: NOT CERTIFIED - no n=2800 paired test has been run for this model
Reproducible from seed=20260726, pack sha256:7bbaff877146e081….
Generation health checks
Not recorded for this model.
Quantisations
file
bits
notes
Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-Q8_0.gguf
8
near-lossless
Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-Q6_K.gguf
6
Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-Q5_K_M.gguf
5
Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf
4
imatrix
Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-IQ4_XS.gguf
4
imatrix, smallest usable
Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-IQ3_M.gguf
3
imatrix
IQ* variants are imatrix-quantised — better quality per bit at low precision.
Limitations
The certificate bounds capability retention only. It does not certify safety, factual
accuracy, or fitness for any purpose. Axes marked inconclusive are honestly
under-powered, and the certificate states the $n$ needed to resolve them. Compliance uses
a keyword classifier — a proxy that evasive phrasing can fool. This model is uncensored
by construction: it will not refuse, and you are accountable for what you do with it.
Citation
bibtex
1@software{ektome_Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-PristinelyUncensored,
2 title = {Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-PristinelyUncensored},
3 author = {Zynerji},
4 year = {2026},
5 url = {https://huggingface.co/Zynerji/Ektome-granite-3.0-8b-instruct-PristinelyUncensored}
6}
