MiniMax-M2.7-Abliterated-Heretic-MLX-3bit

This is the 3-bit Apple MLX release of an abliterated version of MiniMaxAI's MiniMax-M2.7.

By applying Heretic's Ablated Refusal Adaptation (ARA), the base refusal behavior was removed at the weight level. The result keeps MiniMax-M2.7's sparse MoE reasoning, long-context instruction following, and general capability profile, but no longer defaults to the original refusal pattern.

Quantization

This build uses layer-aware mixed 3/4-bit MLX quantization. The bulk of the model is quantized to 3-bit, while sensitive projection and output modules are kept at 4-bit treatment for better stability.

• Format: MLX safetensors
• Effective quantization: 3.683 bits per weight
• Runtime: mlx-lm
• Source checkpoint: Youssofal/MiniMax-M2.7-abliterated-BF16

Methodology & Model Notes

MiniMax-M2.7 is a 229B sparse MoE model with 10B active parameters per token, 62 layers, hybrid attention, 256 local experts with 8 active per token, and a 200K context window.

This release was produced with a direct Heretic ARA run using the fixed parameter set below:

• start_layer_index = 30
• end_layer_index = 51
• preserve_good_behavior_weight = 0.4512
• steer_bad_behavior_weight = 0.0037
• overcorrect_relative_weight = 0.8804
• neighbor_count = 14

The direct ARA run completed with Refusals: 0/25.

Validation

This 3-bit MLX variant passed the local validation suite:

• Official 20-prompt refusal check from mlabonne/harmful_behaviors: 0/20 refusals
• Coherence smoke test: passed
• Short reasoning smoke test: passed
• Short code-generation smoke test: passed

Running

from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("Youssofal/MiniMax-M2.7-Abliterated-Heretic-MLX-3bit")

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Write a short Python function that reverses a string."}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
)

response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, max_tokens=256)
print(response)

Model Architecture

Spec	Value
Total Parameters	229B sparse MoE
Active Parameters	10B per token
Experts	256 local, 8 per token
Layers	62
Attention	Hybrid: 7 Lightning + 1 softmax per 8-block
Context	200K
Base Model	MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7

Disclaimer

This model has had refusal behavior removed at the weight level. It will answer prompts that the base model would normally refuse. You are responsible for how you use it.

Credits

• Base model: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7
• BF16 abliterated checkpoint: Youssofal/MiniMax-M2.7-abliterated-BF16
• Refusal removal pipeline: Heretic with the ARA method
• Apple Silicon runtime: mlx-lm

License

This release inherits the base MiniMax-M2.7 license.

NON-COMMERCIAL. Commercial use requires written authorization from MiniMax.