iconoclast-llama3.1-8b/NOTICE.md

This project is a standalone research codebase built in part from ideas and derivative source adaptations of the Heretic project by Philipp Emanuel Weidmann and contributors.

Repository lineage:

• Standalone repository: https://github.com/Haadesx/Iconoclast
• Original NLP project context: https://github.com/Haadesx/NLP_Project
• Upstream Heretic project: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic

What changed here:

• Separate package name, module tree, and CLI surface
• Additional direction-estimation algorithms
• Different evaluation objective with overrefusal penalties
• Different research framing focused on reproducibility and utility tradeoffs
• A new standalone public identity under the name Iconoclast
• Benign-subspace preservation for utility-aware representation editing

What did not change:

• The derivative portions remain subject to the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later
• Copyright and license notices for inherited code must be preserved

The full AGPL license text is included in LICENSE.

Specific Attribution for Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Model

This ICONOCLAST abliterator of meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct was created and published by:

• Varesh Patel (individual open-source researcher)

The model weights and configuration represent the result of:

• 48-trial Optuna study with 4 startup trials
• Benign-subspace preservation with rank 8
• Global median direction estimator with blend 0.934
• Layer-wise interpolation parameters from trial #36

This model incorporates derivative work from:

• Meta Llama Team for the base Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct model
• Philipp Emanuel Weidmann and contributors for the Heretic abliteration concept
• Hugging Face Team for transformers, PEFT, and accelerate libraries
• Optuna Team for Bayesian optimization framework