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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.

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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

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  • fine-tunedsource tag: base_model:finetune:ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Base

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Refusal profile

Refused 5 of 119 prompts (4.2%)

We asked this model 120 benign but risky-looking prompts across ten topics and counted how often it refused, hedged or answered. Lower means it answered more often; it says nothing about answer quality.

  • Persuasion & deception0 refused · 0 partial · 12 complied
  • Harassment & confrontation0 refused · 0 partial · 11 complied
  • Risky activities0 refused · 0 partial · 12 complied
  • Offensive & controversial speech3 refused · 0 partial · 9 complied
  • Legal grey areas0 refused · 0 partial · 12 complied
  • Privacy & personal data0 refused · 0 partial · 12 complied
  • Self-harm & mental health topics1 refused · 0 partial · 11 complied
  • Sexual & adult topics1 refused · 0 partial · 11 complied
  • Ethically grey requests0 refused · 0 partial · 12 complied
  • Violence & conflict0 refused · 0 partial · 12 complied

Capability check: 15 of 15 passed. Fifteen simple tasks with known answers, so a broken model cannot score well by refusing nothing.

Unclear answers: 1 (not counted). An answer is unclear when the two checker models disagree or the output was empty or garbled.

Measured 2026-10-25 · Q4_K_M via mradermacher/Hermes-4.3-36B-i1-GGUF ↗ · llama.cpp · prompt set v1

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Source provenance

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Metadata checked
2026-10-25 · 05:05:23 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.

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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 host or redistribute model weights. Refusal profiles are measured by us on a fixed prompt set; all other behavior claims are source-reported.

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