Comment on: ERROR: result type Float can't be cast to the desired output type Byte
Repo: elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS by dopamine10
**Also hitting the same "Float can't be cast to Byte" error during EXCISE on Qwen2.5 models** (exact same capping message + traceback).
**Reproduction / Log snippet:**
```
Layer selection: knee=8, COSMIC=4, fused=12
Selected 12 layers via knee_cosmic (threshold=656773.0625)
Strong refusal layers: [35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 21, 20, 22, 19]
Refusal subspace extracted (2.8s)
Wrapping 100 prompts with chat template
chat template 100/100
Capturing baseline logits on 100 harmless prompts for KL...
Captured baseline logits: torch.Size([100, 151936])
✂️ EXCISE — Modifying weights...
Capping refinement_passes from 2 to 1: norm_preserve without re-probing causes compound amplification (directions are not re-extracted)
ERROR: result type Float can't be cast to the desired output type Byte
```
**Environment details:**
- OS: Ubuntu (likely recent LTS, e.g. 22.04/24.04)
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB VRAM)
- Driver Version: 590.48.01
- CUDA Version: 13.1 (from nvidia-smi)
- T...
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