Etymology

Blend of ablate +‎ obliterationCategory:English blends#ABLITERATION, see abliterate.

Noun

abliteration (countable and uncountable, plural abliterations)Category:English lemmas#ABLITERATIONCategory:English nouns#ABLITERATIONCategory:English uncountable nouns#ABLITERATIONCategory:English countable nouns#ABLITERATIONCategory:English countable nouns#ABLITERATIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ABLITERATIONCategory:Pages with entries#ABLITERATIONCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ABLITERATION

1. (neologismCategory:English neologisms#ABLITERATION, artificial intelligenceCategory:en:Artificial intelligence#ABLITERATION, computingCategory:en:Computing#ABLITERATION) The process of uncensoring a large language model by modifying internal functions to eliminate refusal behaviors while preserving the remaining functions of the model.
   • 2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog‎, retrieved 29 May 2025:

     We applied abliteration to Daredevil-8B to uncensor it, which also degraded the model's performance.

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