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abliteration en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of ablate + obliteration, see abliterate.

Meanings

1. (countable, neologism, qualifier:artificial intelligence, uncountable) The process of uncensoring a large language model by modifying internal functions to eliminate refusal behaviors while preserving the remaining functions of the model.
   • We applied abliteration to Daredevil-8B to uncensor it, which also degraded the model's performance. 2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog, retrieved 29 May 2025:

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abliterate