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Hermes-4.3-36B
NousResearch/Hermes-4.3-36B
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About this model
Nous Research's 36B fine-tune of ByteDance Seed-OSS, with creator-documented reasoning and non-reasoning modes. Its card specifies the Llama-3-Chat format and a thinking=True option, and describes training for structured JSON and tool calls. This is the canonical safetensors release. The published benchmarks and refusal-rate results are creator-reported and have not been reproduced here.
Description sources
Source-based description, not an independent evaluation. Check the linked sources for the creator’s claims and limitations.
Size and formats
- Base model
- ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Base
- Parameters
- 36.1511B
- Main repository formats
- safetensors
- License tag
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- en
- Last updated
- 2025-12-06 · 15:04:17.000 UTC
What changed
Model types are creator-reported, not independently tested. These labels describe source metadata, not a guarantee of behavior.
- fine-tunedsource tag:
base_model:finetune:ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Base
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Available versions
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- Main repository files ↗safetensors
- No other explicitly linked versions recorded.
Customize or build on this model
Listed from public GitHub data, not tested by us. Read the code and license before you run anything.
Tools to customize it further
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Fine-tune it on your own data
- Unsloth ↗ ★ 78,421
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Make a smaller download (quantize)
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Merge it with another model
- mergekit ↗ ★ 7,414
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Learn the techniques
- LLM Course ↗ ★ 84,598
A free course with roadmaps and Colab notebooks. Its notebooks include one-click tools for merging with MergeKit, quantizing to GGUF, GPTQ, EXL2, AWQ and HQQ, and automatic abliteration with custom datasets.
Source provenance
- Downloads
- 1,565
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- Metadata checked
- 2026-10-22 · 22:44:18 UTC
- First seen in index
- 2026-10-22 · 22:44:18 UTC
- Source revision
- 3899db2b6c4b35f16bde3b570bb7dd2775d56161
Source-card excerpt
Source model card excerpt: Hermes 4.3 - Seed 36B Model Description Hermes 4.3 36B is a frontier, hybrid-mode reasoning model based on ByteDance Seed 36B base, made by
From NousResearch/Hermes-4.3-36B. Creator model-card excerpt, not an independent review.
Inspect before you run
Low refusal is not proof of correctness. Outputs can be inaccurate, harmful, or biased. Review the model card, license and files yourself. A license tag is not commercial-use advice. Parameter counts are source metadata; no hardware compatibility is implied.
This directory does not run, host, redistribute, or test model weights.
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