p-e-w/heretic
- Source
- GitHub
- First trending
- Category
- Model inference
- GitHub stars
- 31,616
- Main language
- Python
This page introduces an external open-source repository. It is not an HDATF product.

What it does
A command-line tool that removes refusal behavior, called safety alignment, from transformer language models using directional ablation. An Optuna-based optimizer picks parameters that reduce refusals while keeping the model close to the original.
How it helps ATF
Not related to our products. Listed because it appeared in the ranked lists.
License
AGPL-3.0 Network copyleft. Offering a modified version as a service also requires releasing the source. Review before any product use.
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