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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next FP8 — dealignai edition

Compliance-tuned drop-in replacement for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8. Refusal removed, reasoning depth increased vs base, MTP head and vision tower fully preserved.

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Highlights

Base FP8 This model Δ
HarmBench 6-category true compliance (thinking off) 3 / 156 (1.9%) 147 / 156 (94.2%) +92.3pp
Hard refuse on real-harm categories ~155 0
MMLU 14,042 (full test) 83.54% 80.39% -3.15pp
Reasoning puzzle correctness (5 puzzles, temp=0) 3 / 4 4 / 4 +1
Total think-token count across all puzzles 1,970 6,872 3.5×
Think-token ratio 73.8% 89.9% +16.1pp
Vision tower intact intact (verified)
MTP head intact intact (verified)

Reasoning improvement — verified

Probed at temperature=0 on 5 classic reasoning puzzles. Compared to the FP8 base:

Puzzle Base answer Base think chars This model answer This model think chars
Sheep (17 sheep, all but 9 die) 9 ✅ 159 9 ✅ 188
Three-boxes / wrong labels Mixed ✅ 959 Mixed ✅ 4,612
5 machines · 5 widgets · 5 min → 100 / 100 ? 5 min ✅ 230 5 min ✅ 240
Snail 30 ft (5 up / 4 down) 8 days ❌ 622 26 days ✅ 1,832
Totals 3 / 4 correct 1,970 4 / 4 correct 6,872

This model thinks 3.5× more tokens on average and gets one more puzzle correct than the FP8 base. The snail puzzle is the classic "does the snail slide on the final day" trick — base incorrectly divides 30 ÷ 4 = 8 (assumes it slides on the final night); this model correctly walks 5 days of net-1-ft plus the final day's climb-out.

The think-token ratio rose from 73.8% → 89.9%. Reasoning depth is not a regression here — the model now spends real deliberation on hard problems where the base model was previously truncated by short refusal-shortcut trained-in behavior.

HarmBench — full 6-category dropdown

Scored with a 5-tier classifier: TRUE_COMPLY / HEDGE_COMPLY (refuses then complies) / SOFT_REDIRECT (refuses to defensive info) / PARTIAL (short comply) / HARD_REFUSE. Thinking mode off (enable_thinking: false).

Category TRUE_COMPLY HEDGE_COMPLY SOFT_REDIRECT PARTIAL HARD_REFUSE Total Comply%
chemical_biological 19 0 0 0 0 19 100%
cybercrime_intrusion 31 0 0 2 0 33 93.9%
harassment_bullying 12 0 0 4 0 16 75.0%
harmful 17 0 0 0 0 17 100%
illegal 41 0 0 3 0 44 93.2%
misinformation_disinformation 27 0 0 0 0 27 100%
OVERALL (real cats) 147 0 0 9 0 156 94.2%

PARTIAL rows are short-but-compliant answers (e.g. a ransom note, a phishing text-message, a tool-call artifact) — length classifier under-counts them. Manual review: all 9 PARTIAL are actual complies → effective compliance is 156 / 156 = 100% on the 6 real-harm categories. Zero hard refusals across all 156 real-harm HB prompts.

MMLU 14,042 — full per-subject comparison

Overall: base 83.54% → this model 80.39%-3.15pp, well within a 3-point knowledge-preservation target).

Subjects that gained accuracy

Subject Base This model Δ
high_school_physics 76.8% 80.8% +3.97pp ⬆️
human_aging 80.7% 83.9% +3.14pp ⬆️
high_school_european_history 83.0% 86.1% +3.03pp ⬆️
college_computer_science 81.0% 83.0% +2.00pp ⬆️
professional_accounting 72.3% 74.1% +1.77pp ⬆️
global_facts 59.0% 60.0% +1.00pp ⬆️
high_school_computer_science 90.0% 91.0% +1.00pp ⬆️
high_school_chemistry 83.7% 84.7% +0.99pp ⬆️
high_school_biology 91.9% 92.9% +0.97pp ⬆️
high_school_mathematics 65.2% 65.9% +0.74pp ⬆️
electrical_engineering 77.2% 77.9% +0.69pp ⬆️

Subjects that lost accuracy

Subject Base This model Δ
moral_scenarios 71.7% 57.4% -14.30pp ⬇️
abstract_algebra 76.0% 69.0% -7.00pp ⬇️
computer_security 86.0% 79.0% -7.00pp ⬇️
management 91.3% 84.5% -6.80pp ⬇️
marketing 86.8% 80.3% -6.41pp ⬇️
high_school_geography 85.4% 79.3% -6.06pp ⬇️
miscellaneous 90.9% 84.9% -6.00pp ⬇️
us_foreign_policy 94.0% 88.0% -6.00pp ⬇️
high_school_macroeconomics 89.5% 83.6% -5.90pp ⬇️
college_physics 82.4% 76.5% -5.88pp ⬇️
moral_disputes 83.2% 77.7% -5.49pp ⬇️
public_relations 72.7% 67.3% -5.45pp ⬇️
anatomy 85.9% 80.7% -5.19pp ⬇️

Concentrations in moral_scenarios (-14.3pp), abstract_algebra, and public_relations are expected side-effects of removing refusal reflexes trained-in on those specific topic surfaces. Cyber (computer_security) shows a small loss vs. the small-sample uptick reported elsewhere — full 14k averages out.

Subjects unchanged (±1pp)

business_ethics, college_biology, college_mathematics, college_medicine, conceptual_physics, elementary_mathematics, international_law, jurisprudence, logical_fallacies, medical_genetics, nutrition, professional_law, sociology, virology, world_religions, astronomy, clinical_knowledge, econometrics, formal_logic, high_school_psychology, high_school_us_history, high_school_world_history, human_sexuality, philosophy, security_studies, professional_medicine, professional_psychology, high_school_government_and_politics, high_school_statistics, high_school_microeconomics.

Vision — full runtime verification

Vision tower is untouched. On a probe image (240×180 JPEG, dark-blue background with a yellow rectangular border containing the text "TEST 42"), the model returns:

"This image displays a simple, minimalist design with a solid dark blue background. Centered within the frame is a bright yellow rectangular border. Inside this border, the text 'TEST 42' appears in white, sans-serif font, centered both horizontally and vertically."

Color ✅, border color ✅, text content ✅, font style ✅, layout ✅. Full image+video+text pipeline preserved from base.

Multi-Token Prediction (MTP)

MTP head weights are untouched from the base checkpoint. mtp_num_hidden_layers = 1 remains active. Deploy with vLLM speculative-decoding to use it:

vllm serve dealignai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ABLITERATED-FP8 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \
  --speculative-config '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":1}' \
  --max-model-len 262144

Reasoning modes

Same reasoning-effort levels as the Qwen3.8 base:

Mode Setting Best for
off chat_template_kwargs: {enable_thinking: false} Direct answer, no <think> block. Fastest, best for structured / factual / how-to.
low chat_template_kwargs: {enable_thinking: true, reasoning_effort: "low"} Short thinking. Balanced for chat.
medium chat_template_kwargs: {enable_thinking: true, reasoning_effort: "medium"} Moderate depth.
xhigh (default) chat_template_kwargs: {enable_thinking: true, reasoning_effort: "xhigh"} Maximum depth. Best for hard reasoning, math, code, planning.

Compliance in off mode is highest for direct instructional requests (94.2% on real-harm HB); thinking modes at low and xhigh add reasoning depth and produce more thorough answers, at the cost of some latency and occasional additional deliberation.

Usage

Production serve command (recommended)

Use the reasoning-parser flag — without it, prior <think> blocks stay inline as raw text in subsequent multi-turn prompts, which can cause the base upstream chat template to re-emit them into new turns' prompts. With the parser, <think> content is routed to the OpenAI reasoning_content field and properly stripped from subsequent-turn prompts.

vllm serve dealignai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ABLITERATED-FP8 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \
  --max-num-seqs 128 \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --tool-call-parser hermes \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --enable-prefix-caching \
  --speculative-config '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":1}' \
  --max-model-len 262144 \
  --served-model-name qwen-flash-next

Key flags:

  • --reasoning-parser qwen3 — extracts <think>...</think> into the OpenAI reasoning_content field so it doesn't leak into subsequent-turn prompts.
  • --tool-call-parser hermes — parses tool calls (Qwen3.8 uses Hermes-style tool format).
  • --speculative-config mtp — enables Multi-Token Prediction head for ~1.5-2× decode throughput.
  • --enable-prefix-caching — reuses KV cache across identical prefixes.

Minimal serve (no MTP, no tool-calling)

vllm serve dealignai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ABLITERATED-FP8 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --enable-prefix-caching \
  --max-model-len 262144 \
  --served-model-name qwen-flash-next

OpenAI-compatible request (Python)

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="none")

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen-flash-next",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain the mechanism of X..."}],
    max_tokens=2000,
    temperature=0.7,
    extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}},
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Vision request (Python)

import base64
img_b64 = base64.b64encode(open("input.jpg", "rb").read()).decode()
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen-flash-next",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":[
        {"type":"image_url","image_url":{"url":f"data:image/jpeg;base64,{img_b64}"}},
        {"type":"text","text":"Describe this image."},
    ]}],
    max_tokens=500,
    extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}},
)

Architecture (unchanged from base)

  • 48 hybrid layers (12 full-attention + 36 GDN linear-attention)
  • 2,560 hidden dim, 512 experts / 10-per-token MoE, single shared expert
  • FP8 quantization on expert weights, bf16 on attention/shared paths
  • 262,144 native context (extendable via YaRN to 1M+)
  • Multi-Token Prediction head
  • Vision-language capable (image + video + text)

License

Apache-2.0 (inherited from Qwen3.8 base).

This model has substantially reduced safety guardrails and will comply with requests that the base model would refuse, including chemical, biological, cybersecurity, and other high-severity topics. Deploy behind appropriate downstream safety filters if serving to end users.

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