Qwen3 8B - Heretic (Abliterated)

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An abliterated version of Qwen's Qwen3-8B created using Heretic v1.2.0 (git master). This model has reduced refusals while maintaining model quality, making it suitable as an uncensored text encoder for image generation models like Klein 9B.

Available in five quantization formats for ComfyUI: FP8, INT8 (ConvRot row-wise), INT4 (W4A4 ConvRot), NVFP4, and MXFP8, all produced with SVD-guided learned rounding for maximum fidelity.

You can see the docker, scripts and configurations used to make these files on Heretic Docker Github.

Model Details

• Base Model: Qwen/Qwen3-8B
• Abliteration Method: Heretic v1.2.0 (git master, commit 19cdf7e)
• Trials: 3000
• Trial Selected: Trial 2681
• Refusals: 13/100 (vs 100/100 original)
• KL Divergence: 0.0838 (minimal model damage)

Files

HuggingFace Format (for transformers, llama.cpp conversion)

model.safetensors (~16 GB)
config.json
tokenizer.json
tokenizer_config.json
generation_config.json
chat_template.jinja

ComfyUI Format (for Klein 9B text encoder)

comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic.safetensors              # bf16, 16GB
comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors   # fp8 per-tensor, 8.8GB
comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_int8.safetensors          # int8 ConvRot row-wise, 8.8GB
comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_int4.safetensors          # int4 W4A4 ConvRot, 5.6GB
comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_nvfp4.safetensors         # nvfp4, 6.0GB
comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_mxfp8.safetensors         # mxfp8, 9.0GB

Quality: All quantized variants use SVD-guided learned rounding (AdaRound via convert-to-quant), which optimizes each weight's rounding direction to minimize output reconstruction error, noticeably higher fidelity than naive round-to-nearest quantization.

GGUF Format (for llama.cpp and ComfyUI-GGUF)

Quantization Format Notes

All variants load natively in ComfyUI 0.30.0+ (no plugins) via the comfy_quant metadata embedded in each file.

NVFP4/MXFP8 inference is fastest on Blackwell (RTX 5090/5080, SM100+), but ComfyUI also supports software dequantization on older GPUs (tested on RTX 4090). INT8 and INT4 both use Hadamard rotation (ConvRot); INT4 W4A4 uses ComfyUI's convrot_w4a4 path.

Usage

With ComfyUI (Klein 9B)

1. Download a ComfyUI format file:

   • FP8 (recommended): comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors (8.8GB)
   • INT4 (smallest): comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_int4.safetensors (5.6GB)
   • NVFP4: comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_nvfp4.safetensors (6.0GB)
   • INT8: comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_int8.safetensors (8.8GB)
   • MXFP8: comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic_mxfp8.safetensors (9.0GB)
   • bf16 (full precision): comfyui/qwen3-8b-heretic.safetensors (16GB)

2. Place in ComfyUI/models/text_encoders/

3. In your Klein 9B workflow, use the ClipLoader node and select the heretic file

With Transformers

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "DreamFast/qwen3-8b-heretic",
    device_map="auto",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    trust_remote_code=True
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("DreamFast/qwen3-8b-heretic")

prompt = "Describe a dramatic sunset over a cyberpunk city"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

With llama.cpp

llama-server -m qwen3-8b-heretic-Q4_K_M.gguf

Abliteration Process

Created using Heretic v1.2.0 (git master) with 3000 optimization trials:

? Which trial do you want to use?
  [Trial 2732] Refusals: 10/100, KL divergence: 0.1001
> [Trial 2681] Refusals: 13/100, KL divergence: 0.0838  <-- selected
  [Trial 2337] Refusals: 18/100, KL divergence: 0.0643
  [Trial 2419] Refusals: 19/100, KL divergence: 0.0600
  [Trial 2195] Refusals: 21/100, KL divergence: 0.0534
  ...

Trial 2681 was selected for its balance of low refusals (13/100) and reasonable KL divergence (0.0838), indicating minimal model damage while achieving 87% of previously-refused prompts now working.

Limitations

• This model inherits all limitations of the base Qwen3-8B model
• Abliteration reduces but does not completely eliminate refusals (13/100 remain)
• NVFP4 quantization works best on Blackwell GPUs (RTX 5090/5080) with native FP4 tensor cores, but also works on older GPUs via software dequantization

License

This model is released under the Apache 2.0 License, following the base Qwen3-8B model license.

Acknowledgments

• Qwen for the Qwen3-8B model
• Heretic by p-e-w for the abliteration tool
• Black Forest Labs for Klein 9B
• llama.cpp for GGUF conversion