abliterate
verbEtymology Blend of ablate + obliterate. Coined by Redditor /u/FailSpai in early 2024, as the idea is to ablate refusal features to the point of obliteration.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Neologism To uncensor a large language model by modifying specific model internals to remove refusal behaviours or unwanted traits, while aiming to preserve the model's other capabilities.
Artificial intelligence
- Now that we have our datasets, we can load the model we want to abliterate. […] I evaluated the abliterated and source models from the previous section on the Open LLM Leaderboard and on Nous' benchmark suite.2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog, retrieved 29 May 2025:
- Related terms
- ablate, abliteration, obliterate, orthogonalization, uncensor