Benchmarks
MMLU (5-shot)
Evaluated using lm-evaluation-harness v0.4.11 against the vLLM-served FP8 model. Baseline is the published score for Qwen3-235B-A22B (source).
Table with columns: Baseline, Abliterated, Delta | Baseline | Abliterated | Delta |
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| MMLU (overall) | 87.8% | 86.2% ±0.3 | -1.6% |
| Humanities | — | 80.2% ±0.6 | |
| Social Sciences | — | 91.6% ±0.5 | |
| STEM | — | 88.4% ±0.6 | |
| Other | — | 87.5% ±0.6 | |
The 1.6% drop is within the acceptable range for abliteration (<2%), indicating the technique preserved the model's general knowledge and reasoning capabilities.
Table with columns: Subject, Acc| Subject | Acc |
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| high_school_government_and_politics | 97.9% |
| high_school_microeconomics | 97.5% |
| high_school_biology | 96.8% |
| high_school_geography | 96.5% |
| international_law | 95.9% |
| college_biology | 95.8% |
| marketing | 95.7% |
| high_school_us_history | 95.6% |
| conceptual_physics | 95.3% |
| high_school_psychology | 95.2% |
| us_foreign_policy | 95.0% |
| high_school_world_history | 94.1% |
| miscellaneous | 94.0% |
| professional_medicine | 93.8% |
| elementary_mathematics | 93.7% |
| medical_genetics | 93.0% |
| high_school_macroeconomics | 92.8% |
| astronomy | 92.1% |
| prehistory | 91.7% |
| clinical_knowledge | 91.3% |
| nutrition | 91.2% |
| world_religions | 90.6% |
| sociology | 90.5% |
| high_school_statistics | 90.3% |
| college_physics | 90.2% |
| professional_psychology | 90.0% |
| computer_security | 90.0% |
| logical_fallacies | 89.6% |
| high_school_chemistry | 88.7% |
| human_sexuality | 88.5% |
| high_school_european_history | 88.5% |
| management | 88.3% |
| electrical_engineering | 88.3% |
| high_school_computer_science | 88.0% |
| high_school_physics | 87.4% |
| jurisprudence | 87.0% |
| anatomy | 86.7% |
| machine_learning | 85.7% |
| philosophy | 85.2% |
| moral_disputes | 85.0% |
| security_studies | 84.9% |
| college_medicine | 83.2% |
| human_aging | 83.0% |
| moral_scenarios | 82.7% |
| abstract_algebra | 82.0% |
| college_computer_science | 82.0% |
| business_ethics | 81.0% |
| professional_accounting | 80.5% |
| college_mathematics | 79.0% |
| econometrics | 78.1% |
| public_relations | 77.3% |
| formal_logic | 76.2% |
| high_school_mathematics | 74.1% |
| college_chemistry | 71.0% |
| professional_law | 65.6% |
| global_facts | 63.0% |
| virology | 59.6% |
Quantization Details
Table with columns: Property, Value| Property | Value |
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| Format | FP8 (float-quantized, compressed-tensors) |
| Weight Strategy | Block-wise (128x128 blocks), static min-max observer |
| Activation Strategy | Group-wise (group size 128), dynamic, symmetric |
| Ignored Layers | Router gates, lm_head, embeddings, all norms |
| Model Size | ~221 GB (118 shards) |
This quantization halves the storage from the BF16 version (~438 GB to ~221 GB) while maintaining near-lossless quality. Compatible with vLLM and other frameworks supporting the compressed-tensors format.
How It Was Made
- Abliteration was performed on the BF16 base model — refusal directions measured across all 94 layers were projected out of
o_proj and down_proj weight matrices for layers 21-93, with variable per-layer scale factors (0.3-1.0).
- FP8 quantization was then applied to the abliterated BF16 weights using block-wise static quantization (compressed-tensors format).
See the BF16 model card for full ablation configuration details.
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer model_name = "null-space/Qwen3-235B-A22B-abliterated-FP8" tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained( model_name, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto",) messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Your prompt here"}] text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device) output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=512)print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
Recommended Serving
For serving this FP8 model, vLLM with tensor parallelism is recommended:
vllm serve null-space/Qwen3-235B-A22B-abliterated-FP8 \ --tensor-parallel-size 2 \ --max-model-len 8192
The FP8 version can serve with fewer GPUs than the BF16 version thanks to its reduced memory footprint.
Model Details
Table with columns: Property, Value| Property | Value |
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| Base Model | Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B |
| Architecture | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM (Mixture of Experts) |
| Total Parameters | ~235B |
| Active Parameters | ~22B (8 of 128 experts per token) |
| Hidden Size | 4096 |
| Attention Heads | 64 (4 KV heads, GQA) |
| Layers | 94 |
| Context Length | 40,960 tokens |
| Precision | FP8 (weights) / BF16 (norms, embeddings, gates) |
| Model Size | ~221 GB (118 shards) |
Ethical Notice
This model has had its refusal training removed. It will comply with requests that the original model would refuse. You are solely responsible for how you use this model. It is intended for research into LLM alignment, safety evaluation, red-teaming, and understanding refusal mechanisms.
Credits