A decensored variant of Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B, produced with Heretic v1.4.0 (directional ablation / "abliteration"). Refusal behavior is suppressed via targeted weight edits to the attention output and MLP down-projections rather than fine-tuning, so the base model's knowledge and instruction-following are left largely intact.
Who this is for: developers who want a tiny, fast Qwen3.5 model without refusals - the 0.8B hybrid linear-attention core runs on CPU and edge devices, with strong speed and long-context handling for its size. Not a capability upgrade over base Qwen3.5-0.8B - same model, refusal guardrails removed.
Why abliteration instead of fine-tuning
Fine-tuning a "helpful" persona on top of RLHF'd refusals fights the base model's training and tends to degrade coherence. Abliteration instead finds and edits the specific weight directions responsible for refusal, leaving the rest of the network (and its capabilities) untouched. See the Heretic repo and the original abliteration writeup for the mechanism.
Files
GGUF quantizations
Full quantization set (14 quants + F16) produced with llama.cpp.
File
Format
Size
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-F16.gguf
GGUF F16
1.41 GB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q2_K.gguf
GGUF Q2_K
403 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-IQ3_S.gguf
GGUF IQ3_S
430 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q3_K_S.gguf
GGUF Q3_K_S
415 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q3_K_M.gguf
GGUF Q3_K_M
445 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q3_K_L.gguf
GGUF Q3_K_L
469 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-IQ4_XS.gguf
GGUF IQ4_XS
482 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q4_K_S.gguf
GGUF Q4_K_S
482 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q4_0.gguf
GGUF Q4_0
478 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q4_1.gguf
GGUF Q4_1
508 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q4_K_M.gguf
GGUF Q4_K_M
505 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q5_K_S.gguf
GGUF Q5_K_S
538 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q5_K_M.gguf
GGUF Q5_K_M
551 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q6_K.gguf
GGUF Q6_K
601 MB
Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic-Q8_0.gguf
GGUF Q8_0
774 MB
Qwen3.5 hybrid linear-attention architecture — loads natively in llama.cpp / Ollama / LM Studio / Jan.
Run llama serve -hf saidutta69/Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic to pull the default quant.
Quickstart
bash
1# llama.cpp - defaults to the Q4_K_M quant2llama serve -hf saidutta69/Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic:Q4_K_M
Also runnable via Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, vLLM, SGLang.
Responsible use
Refusal suppression is deliberate and works as intended: this model will comply with requests the base model would refuse, including some it shouldn't. There is no safety filtering layered on top. You are responsible for how you deploy it.
Made with ❤️ by RACER IS OP — follow for more uncensored models
License
Inherits the apache-2.0 license from the base model.