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p-e-w/heretic

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Fully automatic censorship removal for language models

About the project

A tool for fully automatic removal of censorship (safety alignment) from transformer-based language models using directional ablation and Optuna-based parameter optimization.

Useful for
  • Remove censorship from Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 with a single command
  • Compare decensored model quality with the original using refusal and KL divergence metrics
  • Upload the decensored model to Hugging Face for further use

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4.1 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 3, 2026, 14:03 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

0300600July 6, 2026October 3, 2026

Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

  • 72 stars so far today, about 135 expected by the end of the day.
  • Over the last two days the pace is 2.5× that of the previous week and a half.
  • GitHub Trending Python today: #14, +233 stars.
  • About 32 forks a day — people are taking the code.
  • Recent forks include notable developers: @benthecarman (581 followers).

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Numbers

Total stars
32,988
Today
72 · ≈ 136 by evening
Forks
3,695
Issues and pull requests
452
Watchers
158
Language
Python
License
AGPL-3.0
Latest release
v1.4.0 · June 14, 2026
Created
September 21, 2025
Last push
October 2, 2026

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Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

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