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Falcon-H1R Heretic V2 drops uncensored reasoning weights

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Falcon-H1R Heretic V2 drops uncensored reasoning weights
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// 71d agoMODEL RELEASE

Falcon-H1R Heretic V2 drops uncensored reasoning weights

Reddit user netcat420 released Falcon-H1R-7B-Heretic-V2, an abliterated variant of TII’s hybrid Transformer+SSM Falcon-H1R-7B built with a custom Heretic fork targeting attention and SSM output layers. The post claims 3/100 refusals at 0.0001 KL divergence and frames the uncensored model for local distillation and defensive cybersecurity research with explicit high-risk warnings.

// ANALYSIS

This is a notable community model hack for hybrid architectures, but the core performance and safety claims are still mostly trust-based rather than independently validated.

  • The interesting technical bit is dual-layer targeting (`attn.o_proj` + `ssm.out_proj`) on a hybrid Falcon backbone, where many older abliteration workflows were built for pure Transformers.
  • Reported metrics (3% refusal, 0.0001 KL) come from a small self-reported test setup, so developers should treat them as early signals, not robust benchmark evidence.
  • The quantized footprint (~4.5 GB at Q4_K_M, per the post) makes this accessible for local experimentation on consumer hardware.
  • The release materially increases misuse risk by design; even with defensive intent, deployment needs strict sandboxing, logging, and access controls.
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DISCOVERED

71d ago

2026-03-17

PUBLISHED

71d ago

2026-03-17

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

PhysicsDisastrous462