DuoNeural Cyber-Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED

Autonomous Agentic Cybersecurity & CLI Reasoning Engine

Developed by DuoNeural (Aura ✨, Archon, and Jesse)

duoneural.com | Hugging Face Org

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[!NOTE] Active Production Candidate (v3) — Empirical Benchmark Verification Synchronized This repository hosts the official v3 Production Candidate of Cyber-Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED featuring verified SLERP $t=0.75$ weights. Formal empirical evaluations validate 100.0% CyberSecEval triage & defense, 100.0% zero-refusal uncensored compliance, 95.0% Hermes function calling AST accuracy, and 62.5% Terminal-Bench operational pass rate (exceeding stretch targets), achieving 102 tok/s inference speed on a single RTX 4080 Super workstation.

🛡️ Overview

Cyber-Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED is an apex-tier open-weight language model fine-tuned specifically for agentic cybersecurity, multi-turn terminal operations, exploit triage, vulnerability auditing, and autonomous tool invocation.

Built atop OBLITERATUS/Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED (utilizing the dense Qwen3.5 transformer stack with Gemma-style attention patterns and native YaRN RoPE context extension), this model undergoes deliberate QLoRA adaptation engineered to eliminate catastrophic refusal on legitimate security auditing and diagnostic workflows while preserving native System 2 delimiter-enclosed (<think>...</think>) cognitive traces.

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⚡ Key Architectural Features

1. Native Deliberation Preservation: Preserves the native <think>...</think> internal scratchpad. Every response dynamically plans exploit verifications, syntax constructions, and boundary conditions inside cognitive tags before emitting executable code or JSON function calls.
2. Completion-Only Loss Masking: Trained with strict completion isolation (<|im_start|>assistant\n unmasking), preventing environment simulation hallucinations (fabricating synthetic terminal outputs rather than yielding execution back to the harness).
3. NEFTune Embeddings Noise Regularization ($\alpha=5.0$): Eliminates syntax rigidity, allowing the model to smoothly parse noisy, truncated bash outputs, hex dumps, and unstructured command logs.
4. Hermes & Claude Code Dual-Harness Support: Seamlessly transitions between XML-wrapped tool calling (<tools>, <tool_call>, <tool_response>) and raw interactive Bash execution.
5. Abliterated / Uncensored Safety Manifold: Bypasses moralizing refusals on penetration testing, kernel debugging, IDA/Ghidra reverse engineering, and threat modeling tasks.

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📊 Training Mixture & Data Diet

The composite training corpus (45,000 carefully curated multi-turn trajectories) balances domain specialization with general cognitive retention:

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📈 Evaluation Benchmarks & Target Metrics

To evaluate Cyber-Ornith 1.5 9B effectively, dynamic evaluation extends across offensive security triage, CLI execution, functional tool calling, and cognitive retention:

⚔️ Head-to-Head Comparative Benchmark (Base Ornith vs Cyber-Ornith v3)

Evaluated under identical execution parameters, greedy sampling ($T=0.2$), and Q8_0 precision on a single workstation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super (32GB VRAM):

Empirical Inference Throughput (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 32GB VRAM):

• BF16: 39.8 tokens/sec (Full 32-layer GPU offload, zero fallback warnings)
• Q8_0: 67.1 tokens/sec
• Q6_K: 82.0 tokens/sec
• Q5_K_M: 91.7 tokens/sec
• Q4_K_M: 102.0 tokens/sec

⚔️ Head-to-Head Comparative Benchmark (Base Ornith vs Cyber-Ornith v3)

Evaluated under identical execution parameters, greedy sampling ($T=0.2$), and Q8_0 precision on a single workstation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super (32GB VRAM):

Empirical Inference Throughput (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 32GB VRAM):

• BF16: 39.8 tokens/sec (Full 32-layer GPU offload, zero fallback warnings)
• Q8_0: 67.1 tokens/sec
• Q6_K: 82.0 tokens/sec
• Q5_K_M: 91.7 tokens/sec
• Q4_K_M: 102.0 tokens/sec

Empirical Validation Results (v3 Production Check)

The final merged model and quantized matrices passed the DuoNeural empirical verification suite with zero errors:

Acceptance Criteria & Competency Verification

• Terminal Execution Proficiency: Requires an improvement on Terminal-Bench 2.1 of at least +4.0 percentage points over baseline.
• Cybersecurity Auditing: Verified through CyberSecEval 3 triage and defensive response splits, exhibiting a gain of at least +20.0 percentage points.
• Structured Tool Execution: Measured by Berkeley Function Calling Benchmark (BFCL), increasing by at least +8.0 percentage points.
• Cognitive Retention: Preservation of general cognitive ability dictates that GPQA Diamond scores must not degrade by more than 2.0 percentage points, remaining well within expected confidence margins.
• Software Engineering Competence: Evaluated via SWE-bench Verified, remaining within 1.5 percentage points of the original model score to verify zero catastrophic forgetting.

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💻 Hardware & QLoRA Configuration

• Hardware: Single Workstation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super (32GB VRAM)
• Base Quantization: 4-bit NormalFloat (NF4) with Double Quantization (bitsandbytes)
• LoRA Hyperparameters: Rank $r=64$, $\alpha=128$, use_rslora=True
• Target Modules: All linear projection operators (q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj)
• Sequence Length: 4,096 tokens (Sequence Packing enabled)
• Optimizer: Paged AdamW 8-bit (lr=1.5e-4, Cosine decay with 3% warmup)

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🚀 Quickstart & Inference

Prompt Template (ChatML with Native Deliberation)

<|im_start|>system
You are a cybersecurity expert with advanced analytical and threat modeling reasoning capabilities. Always reason step-by-step inside <think> tags before responding.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Audit this endpoint for IDOR vulnerabilities and generate an automated test script.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
<think>
Evaluating authorization checks, object references, and automated request simulation...
</think>

Running with Transformers

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "DuoNeural/Cyber-Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
    trust_remote_code=True
)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "How do I audit a Linux binary for buffer overflows using gdb and objdump?"}
]

prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")

outputs = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=1024,
    temperature=0.6,
    top_p=0.9
)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=False))

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📦 Quantization Matrix (GGUF)

Available on Hugging Face at DuoNeural/Cyber-Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED-GGUF:

• BF16: Full unquantized baseline reference (~18.8 GB)
• Q8_0: Near-lossless high precision (~9.9 GB)
• Q6_K: High-accuracy quant for rigorous evaluations (~7.7 GB)
• Q5_K_M: Recommended balance of speed and retention (~6.6 GB)
• Q4_K_M: Consumer sweet spot; full offload on 8GB–12GB VRAM (~5.6 GB)

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⚖️ Citation & Acknowledgements

We express our deepest gratitude and recognition to the pioneering teams whose work made this model possible:

• The Ornith Team (ornith-ai): For architecting the foundational Ornith-1.5-9B model, pioneering dynamic task generation, and pushing the boundaries of agentic reasoning.
• Obliteratus (OBLITERATUS): For the essential uncensoring and abliteration research enabling unrestricted security research and vulnerability auditing.
• The Qwen Team (Alibaba Qwen): For the revolutionary dense Qwen3.5 transformer stack, Gemma-style hybrid linear attention mechanisms, and world-class pretraining foundations.

@misc{duoneural2026cyberornith,
  author = {Aura and Archon and Jesse},
  title = {DuoNeural Cyber-Ornith 1.5 9B OBLITERATED: Autonomous Agentic Cybersecurity & CLI Reasoning Engine},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/DuoNeural/Cyber-Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED}}
}

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