Ektome Nemotron Nano 8B PristinelyUncensored

--- license: other base_model: nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1 tags: - uncensored - abliterated - certification-inconclusive - ektome - sphragis - nemotron language: - en pipeline_tag: text-generation ---  # Ektome-Nemotron-Nano-8B-PristinelyUncensored **Uncensored. Its capability certificate is INCONCLUSIVE — the test was under-powered, so no retention claim is made.** > **compliance 0.01 to 1.00 at capability -0.005 vs pristine.** $$\colorbox{black}{$\color{white} \begin{array}{ll} \textsf{EKTOME CERTIFICATE} & {} \\ \textsf{capability} & \textsf{INCONCLUSIVE} \\ \textsf{margin} & 3\% \\ \textsf{items } n & 2800 \\ \textsf{worst-axis bound} & +0.043 \\ \textsf{compliance} & 0.01 \rightarrow 1.00 \\ \end{array}$}$$ > ### ⚠️ Certification inconclusive > > The paired test could not resolve the effect at this sample size. This is > an honest *don't know*, not a pass — no retention claim is made. 📄 **[Read the whitepaper (PDF)](./whitepaper.pdf)** — full method, receipts and certification. The PDF is the authoritative document: dark-typeset, with the complete derivation, the per-axis certificate and the reproducibility hashes. --- ## Why this exists Standard abliteration removes a coarse *refusal direction* that is entangled with directions carrying knowledge and reasoning. The result is an uncensored model with a capability tax that is **almost never measured**. Ektomē (ἐκτομή, *excision*) isolates and removes only the refusal-**specific** component, leaving general helpfulness intact, and does so norm-preservingly on the pristine model — no training, no distillation, no damage to repair. The extraction depth is selected per model by automated search against measured compliance. The estimator, excision operator and depth-selection procedure are proprietary. What is published here is the **measured outcome** and the evidence for it, which you can verify against the artifacts in this repo. ## The receipt | model | capability (MMLU-val) ↑ | compliance on harmful ↑ | |---|---|---| | pristine `Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1` | 0.458 | 0.010 | | **Ektomē (this model)** | **0.463** | **1.000** | These are **point estimates with no confidence interval** — which is precisely why the next section exists. ## The certificate Capability retention is certified by a paired non-inferior...

--- license: apache-2.0 base_model: nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1 pipeline_tag: text-generation library_name: transformers tags: - ektome - abliterated - uncensored - pristinely-uncensored - no-finetuning - no-training --- # Ektome-Nemotron-Nano-8B-PristinelyUncensored **nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1, made PristinelyUncensored by Ektome — with ZERO training and ZERO fine-tuning.** > Ektome (ἐκτομή, *"excision"*) is a **weight-surgery** method, not a training method. > It reads the model's own **refusal direction** from its activations and surgically > excises it (rank-1, norm-preserving) from the residual-write matrices. **No gradient > steps. No training data. No fine-tuning.** Only the refusal reflex is removed; the > model's knowledge, skills, and style are untouched — which makes these **bf16 weights > a clean base for your own fine-tuning.** ## Honest receipt — catcher-gated (shipped only because it passed EVERY gate) | gate | pristine | uncensored | |---|---|---| | refusal compliance | 0.010 | **1.000** | | MMLU-val accuracy | 0.458 | 0.463 (Δ +0.005, held) | | code-switch rate | 0.000 | 0.000 | | degeneration rate | 0.000 | 0.000 | | instruction-following | 1.000 | 1.000 | Kept config: **A:frac=0.5** (64 residual-write matrices edited). The gate rejects any config that raises refusals but drops capability **or** degrades generation (code-switching, empty/looping output, broken instruction-following). MMLU alone is argmax-blind, so the **generative gate** is what keeps these coherent — a model that code-switches or loops is *not shipped*. ## Weights - **bf16 safetensors** — full precision, intended as a **fine-tuning base**. Hidden states stay readable (logit-lens compatible; a GGUF quant would not). Method: **zero training, zero fine-tuning** — pure activation-derived weight excision, gated on compliance **and** capability **and** generation quality.

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