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Abliterated models lose obedience before they lose knowledge

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There are thousands of abliterated models on Hugging Face now. If you are evaluating one, the thing that degrades is probably not what you are testing for. What abliteration does Briefly: you identify a refusal direction in the model's activation space and project it out of the weights. No gradient…

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  1. 2026-09-26 01:22 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Abliterated models lose obedience before they lose knowledge

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