abliterating

Verb

abliterate (third-person singular simple present abliterates, present participle abliterating, simple past and past participle abliterated)

1. (neologism, artificial intelligence) 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.
   • 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