What are the hardware requirements for Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated?

Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated requires approximately 24.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated and how large is it?

Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated is developed by josephmayo, a model with 12b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated?

Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated by josephmayo — VRAM 24.3GB, 128K context

Name: Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated
Author: josephmayo

Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated is an open-source language model by josephmayo. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.3GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Abliteration Base model:finetune:jetbrains/... Base model:jetbrains/mellum2-1... Conversational Cot-steering Endpoints compatible Heretic-style Jetbrains Mellum Mellum2 Moe Per-expert Per-layer Projected-abliteration Reasoning-model Refusal-removal Region:us Safetensors Sharded Svd Tensorflow Thinking-model

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/josephmayo/Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-Abliterated

Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/josephmayo/Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-Abliterated
Base Model(s)	JetBrains/Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking JetBrains/Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	josephmayo
Model Type	mellum
Model Files	3.7 GB: 1-of-7 3.9 GB: 2-of-7 3.6 GB: 3-of-7 3.9 GB: 4-of-7 3.6 GB: 5-of-7 3.9 GB: 6-of-7 1.7 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	MellumForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.10.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	98304

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Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking	128K / 24.3 GB	803	99
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...12B A2.5B Thinking Abliterated	128K / 24.3 GB	127	0
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than josephmayo/Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-Abliterated.