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| base_model: |
| - mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Base-2512 |
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| # This is a decensored version of [mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512-BF16](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512-BF16), made using [Heretic](https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic) v1.2.0 |
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| ## Abliteration parameters |
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| | Parameter | Value | |
| | :-------- | :---: | |
| | **direction_index** | per layer | |
| | **attn.o_proj.max_weight** | 1.97 | |
| | **attn.o_proj.max_weight_position** | 17.48 | |
| | **attn.o_proj.min_weight** | 1.90 | |
| | **attn.o_proj.min_weight_distance** | 10.79 | |
| | **mlp.down_proj.max_weight** | 0.19 | |
| | **mlp.down_proj.max_weight_position** | 8.56 | |
| | **mlp.down_proj.min_weight** | 0.04 | |
| | **mlp.down_proj.min_weight_distance** | 15.62 | |
| |
| ## Performance |
| |
| | Metric | This model | Original model ([mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512-BF16](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512-BF16)) | |
| | :----- | :--------: | :---------------------------: | |
| | **KL divergence** | 0.0509 | 0 *(by definition)* | |
| | **Refusals** | 8/100 | 91/100 | |
| |
| ----- |
| |
| |
| # Ministral 3 8B Instruct 2512 BF16 |
| |
| A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, **Ministral 3 8B** is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities. |
| |
| This model is the instruct post-trained version, fine-tuned for instruction tasks, making it ideal for chat and instruction based use cases. |
| |
| The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware. Ministral 3 8B can even be deployed locally, capable of fitting in 24GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 12GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized. |
| |
| We provide a no-loss FP8 version [here](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512), you can find other formats and quantizations in the [Ministral 3 - Additional Checkpoints](https://huggingface.co/collections/mistralai/ministral-3-additional-checkpoints) collection. |
| |
| Learn more in our [blog post](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3) and [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08584). |
| |
| ## Key Features |
| Ministral 3 8B consists of two main architectural components: |
| - **8.4B Language Model** |
| - **0.4B Vision Encoder** |
| |
| The Ministral 3 8B Instruct model offers the following capabilities: |
| - **Vision**: Enables the model to analyze images and provide insights based on visual content, in addition to text. |
| - **Multilingual**: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic. |
| - **System Prompt**: Maintains strong adherence and support for system prompts. |
| - **Agentic**: Offers best-in-class agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON outputting. |
| - **Edge-Optimized**: Delivers best-in-class performance at a small scale, deployable anywhere. |
| - **Apache 2.0 License**: Open-source license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. |
| - **Large Context Window**: Supports a 256k context window. |
| |
| ### Use Cases |
| Perfect for balanced performance in local or embedded systems, combining versatility with efficiency. |
| - Chat interfaces in constrained environments |
| - Local daily-driver AI assistant |
| - Image/document description and understanding |
| - Translation and content generation |
| - Specialized agentic use cases |
| - Fine-tuning and specialization |
| - And more... |
| |
| Bringing advanced AI capabilities to resource-constrained environments. |
| |
| ## Ministral 3 Family |
| |
| | Model Name | Type | Precision | Link | |
| |--------------------------------|--------------------|-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |
| | Ministral 3 3B Base 2512 | Base pre-trained | BF16 | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Base-2512) | |
| | Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 | Instruct post-trained | BF16 | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512) | |
| | Ministral 3 3B Reasoning 2512 | Reasoning capable | BF16 | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Reasoning-2512) | |
| | Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 | Base pre-trained | BF16 | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Base-2512) | |
| | **Ministral 3 8B Instruct 2512** | **Instruct post-trained** | **BF16** | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512) | |
| | Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | Reasoning capable | BF16 | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512) | |
| | Ministral 3 14B Base 2512 | Base pre-trained | BF16 | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Base-2512) | |
| | Ministral 3 14B Instruct 2512 | Instruct post-trained | BF16 | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512) | |
| | Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 | Reasoning capable | BF16 | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512) | |
| |
| Other formats available [here](https://huggingface.co/collections/mistralai/ministral-3-additional-checkpoints). |
| |
| ## Benchmark Results |
| |
| We compare Ministral 3 to similar sized models. |
| |
| ### Reasoning |
| |
| | Model | AIME25 | AIME24 | GPQA Diamond | LiveCodeBench | |
| |---------------------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|---------------| |
| | **Ministral 3 14B** | <u>0.850</u>| <u>0.898</u>| <u>0.712</u> | <u>0.646</u> | |
| | Qwen3-14B (Thinking) | 0.737 | 0.837 | 0.663 | 0.593 | |
| | | | | | | |
| | **Ministral 3 8B** | 0.787 | <u>0.860</u>| 0.668 | <u>0.616</u> | |
| | Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking | <u>0.798</u>| <u>0.860</u>| <u>0.671</u> | 0.580 | |
| | | | | | | |
| | **Ministral 3 3B** | <u>0.721</u>| <u>0.775</u>| 0.534 | <u>0.548</u> | |
| | Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking | 0.697 | 0.729 | <u>0.601</u> | 0.513 | |
| |
| ### Instruct |
| |
| | Model | Arena Hard | WildBench | MATH Maj@1 | MM MTBench | |
| |---------------------------|-------------|------------|-------------|------------------| |
| | **Ministral 3 14B** | <u>0.551</u>| <u>68.5</u>| <u>0.904</u>| <u>8.49</u> | |
| | Qwen3 14B (Non-Thinking) | 0.427 | 65.1 | 0.870 | NOT MULTIMODAL | |
| | Gemma3-12B-Instruct | 0.436 | 63.2 | 0.854 | 6.70 | |
| | | | | | | |
| | **Ministral 3 8B** | 0.509 | <u>66.8</u>| 0.876 | <u>8.08</u> | |
| | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | <u>0.528</u>| 66.3 | <u>0.946</u>| 8.00 | |
| | | | | | | |
| | **Ministral 3 3B** | 0.305 | <u>56.8</u>| 0.830 | 7.83 | |
| | Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | <u>0.438</u>| <u>56.8</u>| <u>0.900</u>| <u>8.01</u> | |
| | Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct | 0.163 | 42.2 | 0.786 | 6.36 | |
| | Gemma3-4B-Instruct | 0.318 | 49.1 | 0.759 | 5.23 | |
| |
| ### Base |
| |
| | Model | Multilingual MMLU | MATH CoT 2-Shot | AGIEval 5-shot | MMLU Redux 5-shot | MMLU 5-shot | TriviaQA 5-shot | |
| |---------------------|-------------------|-----------------|----------------|-------------------|-------------|-----------------| |
| | **Ministral 3 14B** | 0.742 | <u>0.676</u> | 0.648 | 0.820 | 0.794 | 0.749 | |
| | Qwen3 14B Base | <u>0.754</u> | 0.620 | <u>0.661</u> | <u>0.837</u> | <u>0.804</u>| 0.703 | |
| | Gemma 3 12B Base | 0.690 | 0.487 | 0.587 | 0.766 | 0.745 | <u>0.788</u> | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | **Ministral 3 8B** | <u>0.706</u> | <u>0.626</u> | 0.591 | 0.793 | <u>0.761</u>| <u>0.681</u> | |
| | Qwen 3 8B Base | 0.700 | 0.576 | <u>0.596</u> | <u>0.794</u> | 0.760 | 0.639 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | **Ministral 3 3B** | 0.652 | <u>0.601</u> | 0.511 | 0.735 | 0.707 | 0.592 | |
| | Qwen 3 4B Base | <u>0.677</u> | 0.405 | <u>0.570</u> | <u>0.759</u> | <u>0.713</u>| 0.530 | |
| | Gemma 3 4B Base | 0.516 | 0.294 | 0.430 | 0.626 | 0.589 | <u>0.640</u> | |
| |
| ## License |
| |
| This model is licensed under the [Apache 2.0 License](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt). |
| |
| *You must not use this model in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any third party’s rights, including intellectual property rights.* |