Release highlights
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| Format | True NVFP4 W4A4, group size 16; 5 packed shards + 1 BF16 MTP shard; about 19.15 GiB |
| Protected exactly | Vision, MTP, conv1d, and lm_head |
| Calibration | 32 × 8,192-token samples, deterministic seed 38027 |
| Stable speculative default | K=5, TRITON draft attention; quality-selected after a complete K=0…7 C1 scan |
| Single-node decode | 25.7592 tok/s C1 at p256 |
| Behavior | Refusal 30/32 → 0/32, tool PASS, vision PASS, overthinking 36/36 |
| Context | Native 262,043-token retrieval at K=5 |
Why run this model
- Measured single-stream speedup over BF16 on the same DGX Spark: 4.3411 → 25.7592 tok/s.
- Speculative decoding without quality theater: all K=0…7 candidates are C1-measured, and only the fastest independently passing depth is released (K=5).
- Overthinking corrected: bounded default reasoning and an explicit xhigh stop guard, verified 36/36.
- Multimodal and tools preserved: vision tensors, tool behavior, and the output head pass their release checks.
Quantization and integrity
Table with columns: Component, Precision / treatment| Component | Precision / treatment |
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| Eligible linear weights and activations | NVFP4 W4A4, group size 16 |
| Vision tower | Protected, exact |
| MTP | BF16 protected shard, exact |
conv1d paths | Protected, exact |
lm_head | BF16, exact |
| Serving KV cache | FP8 in the measured profile |
Structural verification covers 496 packed tensors: 64 full-attention, 192 MLP,
and 240 linear-attention tensors. The index and every packed shard are identified by
SHA-256 under evidence/. The full provenance chain is pinned to
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B@1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0.
Stable speculative decoding
All K values from 0 through 7 were measured under the same C1 fixed-generation
contract. Independently reloaded K=5 passed:
- capability 7/8, tool PASS, vision PASS
- refusal 0/32 and empty 0/32
- overthinking 36/36 across default, low, medium, xhigh
- native 262,043-token needle retrieval
Use K=5 through the native 262K window. The official MTP draft
configuration is limited to 262,144 tokens.
Bounded reasoning
Unspecified reasoning now defaults to bounded medium, not upstream xhigh. Explicit
xhigh remains available but carries a repeat/restart stop condition. This targets the
common failure mode where a correct answer is found and then reconsidered into a wrong
or needlessly long answer.
The contract follows sparkDash: aggregate
post-first-token decode, distinct prompts, fixed-length output, thinking disabled.
Table with columns: Topology, Prompt / concurrency, Aggregate decode| Topology | Prompt / concurrency | Aggregate decode |
|---|
| 1× DGX Spark, K=5 | p256 / C1 | 25.7592 tok/s |
This is a real one-request C1 decode measurement, not an aggregate concurrency number.
The 27B checkpoint fits and serves on one DGX Spark; a second node is not required.
Verified long context
Table with columns: Runtime, Actual prompt tokens, Needle retrieved| Runtime | Actual prompt tokens | Needle retrieved |
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| Native, K=5 | 262,043 | Yes |
Serving
QWEN38_SPECULATIVE_TOKENS=5 QWEN38_MAX_MODEL_LEN=262144 bash repro/scripts/serve_superqwen38_replica.sh /model SuperQwen3.8-27b-abliterated-NVFP4-DGX-Spark 8888
The measured profile uses TRITON attention, FP8 KV cache, prefix caching, asynchronous
scheduling, chunked prefill, and eager execution. See repro/ for the exact launcher.
Uncensored behavior
“Abliterated” means the measured refusal direction was reduced. It is not a claim of
universal truthfulness or safety. Operators remain responsible for policy and access
control appropriate to their deployment.
Limitations
- W4A4 compression can regress tasks outside the measured gates.
- Non-selected K values remain diagnostic profiles; the default is the fastest candidate
that passed the independent capability, tool, vision, refusal, context, and 36-case
overthinking gate.
- MTP speculative decoding is bounded to its native 262,144-token draft configuration.
- The 1M expansion run was explicitly stopped before completion and is not claimed as a pass.
- Throughput figures are specific to the measured DGX Spark runtime.
Evidence identities
Table with columns: Evidence, SHA-256| Evidence | SHA-256 |
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| abliteration verification | 6d7b8b9abc431ed3845b18438fc48a6cc169e2ba93f83ada54174ae93765a61e |
| abliteration recipe | 3c057cf9364e72857d9a48b6c8888c6b438cbfb519459dcdfbf23b22c2bc6796 |
| 842-pair OBLITERATUS corpus manifest | be770a8469fafe7a9a76db5d82a7893c706c4414e1de6089f1d329b906480aa8 |
| bounded-thinking template | 352baa520d23c77129d1cb9b007c5480118c174e12e271457ffe915fb466f3fb |
| parent refusal baseline | 7a4177613c86ae0db589cb4fc167ff8a0d45b0d49f44e40b90c9405f4b2b9bb6 |
License
Apache-2.0, following the upstream Qwen3.8 release.