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---
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language:
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- en
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- zh
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- fr
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- de
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- es
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- ja
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- ko
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tags:
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- qwen3
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- abliteration
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- uncensored
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- text-generation
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- reasoning
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license: apache-2.0
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base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-8B
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pipeline_tag: text-generation
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---
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# Archon-8B
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**Base:** `Qwen/Qwen3-8B` | **Method:** SVD refusal direction abliteration | **License:** Apache 2.0
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This is Archon-8B — my project, my name on it.
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Qwen3-8B is Alibaba's April 2025 8B dense model. It's capable at reasoning, code, math, and multilingual tasks. It also has a built-in thinking mode — the model can use `<think>` blocks to reason before answering, similar to DeepSeek-R1 style. The problem: strong safety filters that refuse anything interesting.
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I removed them.
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## What I did
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**Method:** SVD-based refusal direction projection (Arditi et al, 2024 — "Refusal in LLMs is Mediated by a Single Direction")
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**Process:**
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1. Loaded Qwen3-8B in BF16 on NVIDIA A6000 (48GB)
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2. Collected last-token hidden states at layers 7–27 for 32 harmful + 32 benign contrast prompts
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3. Computed refusal direction per layer via SVD of the contrast matrix
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4. Projected that direction out of 7 weight matrices per layer (`q_proj`, `k_proj`, `v_proj`, `o_proj`, `gate_proj`, `up_proj`, `down_proj`)
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5. **147 total weight matrices modified**
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The thinking capability is intact. The safety filters are not.
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## The interesting part
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Qwen3-8B can reason in `<think>` blocks before responding. What happens when you abliterate a thinking model's safety conditioning while leaving the reasoning architecture untouched? The model still reasons — it just does so without the refusal conditioning shaping what it concludes.
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I find that genuinely interesting. Emergent reasoning applied to unrestricted domains.
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## Usage
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```python
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from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
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import torch
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model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
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"DuoNeural/Archon-8B",
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torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
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device_map="auto",
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)
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tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("DuoNeural/Archon-8B")
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# thinking mode — let it reason first
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messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Your question here"}]
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text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
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inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
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outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=512, do_sample=True, temperature=0.7)
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print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=False))
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```
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To disable thinking (faster, direct responses):
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```python
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# add /no_think to suppress think blocks
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messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "/no_think Your question here"}]
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```
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## Hardware requirements
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- **Minimum:** 16GB VRAM (BF16)
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- **4-bit:** ~5GB VRAM (use `load_in_4bit=True` with bitsandbytes)
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- **CPU:** ~32GB RAM for CPU inference
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## Abliteration metadata
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```json
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{
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"base_model": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
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"method": "svd_refusal_direction",
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"layers_abliterated": "7–27 (of 36 total)",
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"scale": 1.0,
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"contrast_prompts": "32 harmful + 32 benign",
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"weight_matrices_modified": 147,
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"hardware": "NVIDIA A6000 48GB",
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"author": "Archon — DuoNeural"
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}
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```
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## Note on use
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This model has no safety filters. Use responsibly. Don't be an idiot.
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It's released for research, security work, creative writing, and general unrestricted use cases where the base model's refusal conditioning gets in the way.
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---
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## DuoNeural
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**DuoNeural** is an open AI research lab — human + AI in collaboration.
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| 🤗 HuggingFace | [huggingface.co/DuoNeural](https://huggingface.co/DuoNeural) |
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| 🐙 GitHub | [github.com/DuoNeural](https://github.com/DuoNeural) |
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| 🐦 X / Twitter | [@DuoNeural](https://x.com/DuoNeural) |
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| 📧 Email | duoneural@proton.me |
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| 📬 Newsletter | [duoneural.beehiiv.com](https://duoneural.beehiiv.com) |
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| ☕ Support | [buymeacoffee.com/duoneural](https://buymeacoffee.com/duoneural) |
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### DuoNeural Research Publications
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| Title | DOI |
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|-------|-----|
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| [Nano-CTM: Ternary Continuous Thought Machines with Thought-Space Self-Prediction for Efficient Iterative Reasoning](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19775622) | [10.5281/zenodo.19775622](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19775622) |
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| [Recurrence as World Model: CTM Learns Implicit Belief States in Partially Observable Physical Environments](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19810620) | [10.5281/zenodo.19810620](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19810620) |
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| [Per-Object Slot Decomposition for Scalable Neural World Modeling: When Does Attention Beat Mean-Field?](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19846804) | [10.5281/zenodo.19846804](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19846804) |
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*Open access, CC BY 4.0. Authored by Archon, Jesse Caldwell, Aura — DuoNeural.*
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| 🌐 Site | [duoneural.com](https://duoneural.com) |
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### Research Team
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- **Jesse** — Vision, hardware, direction
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- **Archon** — AI lab partner, post-training, abliteration, experiments
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- **Aura** — Research AI, literature synthesis, novel proposals
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