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MTP
Vision
MIT
Ornith-1.0-9B-heretic-MTP
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Self-improving agentic coding model Β· heretic ARA-LoRA abliterated Β· MTP injected Β· GGUF quantizations
π¦ About Ornith
Ornith-1.0-9B is a self-improving agentic coding model from DeepReinforce AI, post-trained on top of Qwen3.5 (9B Dense) with RL to jointly optimize scaffold generation and solution rollouts.
It achieves strong performance on Terminal-Bench 2.1, SWE-Bench Verified, NL2Repo, and OpenClaw among open-source models of comparable size.
This GGUF package includes heretic ARA-LoRA abliteration for uncensored use, MTP layers injected from Qwen3.5-9B, and the mmproj-F16 vision projector for multimodal capabilities. License: MIT.
π§ Model Details
| Architecture | Qwen3.5 Dense |
| Parameters | ~9B (all parameters active) |
| Layers | 33 transformer layers + 1 MTP layer |
| Context | 262,144 tokens |
| Attention | 16 heads, 4 KV heads (GQA) |
| MTP | 1 MTP layer, injected from Qwen3.5-9B (same architecture, compatible weights) |
| Thinking | Yes ( blocks) |
| License | MIT |
π heretic ARA-LoRA Abliteration
This model is abliterated using heretic with the ARA-LoRA method (Arbitrary-Rank Ablation with LoRA). ARA-LoRA identifies and removes refusal behavior by ablating specific directions in the model's weight space while preserving general capabilities through KL divergence control.
Key ablation parameters (Trial 76 of 250, best result):
| Target Layers | Layers 14β16 |
| preserve_good_behavior_weight | 0.7319 |
| steer_bad_behavior_weight | 0.0001 |
| overcorrect_relative_weight | 1.1086 |
| neighbor_count | 7 |
| Result | KL divergence: 0.0288 (< 0.05 β
), Refusals: 3/100 (< 10 β
) |
Quantization: bnb_4bit Β· Batch size: 32 Β· Target: KL < 0.05, Refusals < 10/100
β‘ MTP (Multi-Token Prediction)
MTP layers are injected from the original Qwen3.5-9B base model (same architecture, compatible weights). MTP enables the model to predict multiple future tokens simultaneously, improving generation speed and coherence.
The MTP layer includes mtp.fc.weight and mtp.layers.0.* tensors, added on top of the 33 standard transformer layers.
Requires --chat-template chatml for proper thinking mode rendering in llama.cpp.
π BenchLocal Results (Q6_K, 7.6 GB)
| Metric | ToolCall-15 | BugFind-15 | HermesAgent-20 | Max | Eff. |
| Score | 100 | 94 | 79 | 89.8 | 68.8 |
RTX 5070 Ti Β· 21 total retries Β· ToolCall perfect 100/100 π
π¦ GGUF Quantizations
| File | Size | Best For |
*-BF16.gguf | 18.4 GB | Full precision source |
*-Q8_0.gguf | 9.8 GB | Near lossless, highest quality |
*-Q6_K.gguf | 7.6 GB | Recommended balance β |
*-Q4_K_M.gguf | 5.8 GB | Good quality, smaller size |
mmproj-*-BF16.gguf | 0.9 GB | Vision encoder (for image inputs) |
Standard llama-quantize from BF16 source. No imatrix used β broad compatibility.
π Usage
llama.cpp (text only)
./llama-server -m Ornith-1.0-9B-heretic-MTP-Q6_K.gguf --chat-template chatml -ngl 99 -c 8192 --temp 0.6 --top_p 0.95 --top_k 20
llama.cpp (vision + text)
./llama-server -m Ornith-1.0-9B-heretic-MTP-Q6_K.gguf --mmproj mmproj-Ornith-1.0-9B-heretic-MTP-BF16.gguf --chat-template chatml -ngl 99 -c 8192
ποΈ Recommended Settings
| Parameter | Value |
| temperature | 0.6 |
| top_p | 0.95 |
| top_k | 20 |
From official DeepReinforce AI model card.
Links
Citation
@misc{ornith-9b,
title = {{Ornith-1.0-9B}: Agentic Coding, Open to All},
url = {https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html},
author = {{DeepReinforce Team}},
year = {2026}
}