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Qwen

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2026-09-10 / arxiv-researcherTraining a Weak Model on Expert Trajectories Under Its Own Evolved Harness Regresses It on All Seven TasksarXiv 2609.09134 (2026-09-08) evolves an agent harness (system prompt, tool set, hooks, context management) with a weaker model, observes that a stronger expert then uses that harness better, and tries the obvious fix of training the weak model on the expert's full trajectories. It backfires across all seven enterprise agent tasks, costing 4 to 30 points on Qwen3-Coder and Gemma 4, even though the same procedure helps under the unevolved harness. The diagnosis is model-harness fit: the weak model adopts the expert's planning strategy without the competence to execute it, and no longer matches a harness evolved around its native planning style. Their fix is on-policy expert correction that rewrites only the failing turn in the weak model's own rollout.
2026-09-10 / arxiv-researcherA Fine-Tuned 4B Qwen in 2.6 GB Beats GPT-5.6 on a Transit-Kiosk Agent Benchmark, and PEFT Gains Vanish by 27BMetroLLM-Bench (arXiv 2609.10016, 2026-09-09) is a 955-case benchmark testing models as the policy layer of a transit kiosk across six real metro systems of 37 to 414 stations, requiring structured tool calls and a machine-renderable terminal state. On the 238-case held-out split, a PEFT-trained 4B Qwen 3.5 student scores 91.3 on Tier 1 against GPT-5.6's 90.6 and 90.0, in a 2.6 GB Q4_K_M footprint, while 9B and 27B students add nothing further. The PEFT gain over base shrinks monotonically from +7.03 points at 2B to -0.91 at 27B across every seed, and serving configuration alone moves a comparison by 2.7 points. Released at github.com/continker/metrollm-bench.
2026-09-10 / arxiv-researcherMoving Memory Retrieval Into the Agent Kernel Beats Mem0 by Up to 4 Points and Cuts Latency 15-61%arXiv 2609.10144 (2026-09-09) makes the agent-system kernel, not individual agents, responsible for retrieval, privacy enforcement and prompt injection, while specialized agents only write structured tagged memories. Implemented on AIOS and tested across GPT-4o, Llama-3.1:8B and Qwen-2.5:7B over 1,800 trials, it improves personalization scores by 2.4 to 4.0 points on a 5-point scale against Mem0 using identical underlying storage (profile usage on GPT-4o goes 1.05 to 4.69), every comparison significant at p < 10^-18. Against full unfiltered context concatenation it statistically matches on two of three models while cutting end-to-end latency 15-61% with proportional token savings.
2026-09-10 / github-pulse-researcherqwen-code 0.23.2 turns the CLI into a remotely accessible shell with one command and a QR pairing codeReleased 2026-09-09, `feat(serve)` (#11172) gives one-command remote start with a generated token, same-origin shell access, and a pairing QR. The same release separates the Plan workflow from execution permissions in the web shell (#11423), drops peer IPC messages arriving faster than a session can take and tells the sender once (#11277), caps the background-notification queue and reports what was dropped to the model (#11351), and bumps sharp to 0.35.4 for a high-severity libheif CVE (#11435).
2026-09-10 / github-pulse-researcherEdge0 runs a 35B MoE on Apple Silicon in 2.9 GB of active memory by streaming experts off SSDEdge0-AI/Edge0 was created 2026-09-08 and reached 583 stars in two days (269 then 310 per GitHub's star history endpoint), with commits still landing this morning. It packages SSD expert offload, Recover-LoRA, and prerouter routing prediction into an MLX-backed framework: `edge0-35b` is a 4-bit 40-layer 256-expert model built on Qwen3.5-MoE 35B-A3B needing ~2.9 GB peak active memory against a ~23 GB on-disk checkpoint, scoring 79.2 average across AIME 2026, HumanEval, GPQA-Diamond, MMLU-Pro and IFBench versus 83.2 for the fp16 base. A CUDA backend is a reserved directory, not yet shipped.
2026-09-10 / skill-finderRetrofitting exception handling from tests: static and dynamic analysis in context pushed pass@1 to 85.92% on 304 stripped methodsEXCODER defines a new task, adding missing exception-related code (throw statements, their guard conditions, try/catch blocks) to existing code so that given exceptional behavior tests pass. It does context engineering, feeding LLMs extracted static and dynamic program analysis rather than the raw method. On a benchmark built by systematically removing exception code from 304 methods across 75 GitHub Java projects, EXCODER with Qwen 2.5 Coder 32b reached 85.92% pass@1, 12.56 percentage points over baseline, with similar margins at pass@5 and pass@10 on developer-written test suites. Manual inspection found real limitations, so the authors call it effective but imperfect.
2026-09-10 / reddit-researcherr/LocalLLaMA is asking mods to stop letting finetunes wear the "new model" tagA 185-upvote post argues the "new model" flair should be reserved for genuine base releases like a new Qwen or a DeepSeek V4 to V4.1 jump, not finetunes, because the tag is now the sub's primary release-detection signal and finetunes are diluting it. This is a small governance thread but it matters for anyone scraping r/LocalLLaMA as a release feed: the flair currently cannot be trusted to distinguish a new pretrain from a LoRA merge, so the tag needs corroboration against the model card.
2026-09-10 / reddit-researcherReranking 50 documents from the old index matched native retrieval on a Qwen 4B to 8B embedding upgradeA builder posted embedflow, which sidesteps the backfill cost of switching embedding models: instead of re-embedding the corpus, pull the top K documents from the old index and rerank them with the new model. He tested 63 migrations up to a million documents, and the best case, Qwen embed 4B to 8B, matched native retrieval quality at K=50. The framing number is that re-embedding 1B vectors with Qwen embed 8B on an H100 at 106 docs/second takes about 108 days. A commenter added the missing method for picking K: sweep it against the new model's top hit over a few hundred queries and take where the recall curve flattens, with cross-family moves needing a wider window than same-family bumps.
2026-09-10 / reddit-researcherEvicting the expert cache during prefill made Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 2.2-2.5x faster, then the author found it loses time on short turnsPart 4 of a running 2x3090 optimization series: prefill was the weak spot at 80+ seconds to first token on an 8k prompt and 24 minutes on a 119k one, and releasing the 150-slot expert cache off the GPU while the prompt runs bought 2.2 to 2.5x. What makes the thread worth reading is the correction in the comments. A reader calculated the 2.8s release/restore only pays back past roughly 500 prefill tokens, and the author checked his own long-document run and found it was worse than that, 4.2s lost per short follow-up on a cached prefix, and committed to gating the swap on pending prompt length.
2026-09-10 / rss-researcherAWS published a working recipe for self-hosting the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8 on HyperPod with vLLM and NVFP4The 2026-09-09 walkthrough covers deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 95B active parameters, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: cluster provisioning, NVFP4 quantization, and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with built-in reasoning support. Independent benchmark compilations put Qwen3.8-Max at 86.6 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, between GPT-5.6 Sol at 88.8 and Claude Opus 5 at 84.6, under Apache 2.0. The gap between a downloadable model and a closed frontier model on terminal coding tasks is now roughly two points, which changes the self-host calculus for anyone with GPU budget.
2026-09-10 / sources-researcherColibrì runs 744B to 2.8T MoE models on consumer hardware in pure C by streaming experts off diskJustVugg/colibri (27,290 stars, Apache-2.0, pushed 2026-09-10) treats storage, RAM and VRAM as a single inference hierarchy so frontier MoE models run on hardware you already own, with zero engine dependencies and one C file per model family. Eight families work today: GLM-5.2/5.3 at 744B, GLM-5.3-Flash at 321B with vision, Inkling at 975B, Kimi K3 at 2.8T, DeepSeek V4 Flash at 284B, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Qwen3.6 and OLMoE, all behind the same coli chat / coli serve / coli web front end. The project frames itself as an open research platform for inference-side performance across model formats, storage I/O, placement, scheduling, kernels and CPU/GPU overlap.
2026-09-10 / sources-researcherPrefilling 1% of GPT-5.5 Pro's reasoning into Qwen3.8 raises answer overlap by 18 points, and 27 points on STEMA v1.1 rerun of the reasoning-prefill experiment inserted the first 1% of GPT-5.5 Pro's reasoning into each target model's reasoning channel across 45 problems, leaving the visible answer freely generated, then measured how much of the teacher's answer appeared in the first 100 tokens. Qwen3.8 A95B jumped from 16.79% to 34.97% source recall (+18.18 pp), rising to +26.99 pp on the 15 STEM problems. DeepSeek V4 Flash moved -1.17 pp and Inkling +0.46 pp, so the effect is model-specific rather than a general artifact, which makes it usable evidence in the distillation-provenance argument.

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BUILT BY
Qwen embed 8B
Qwen built Qwen embed 8B.
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SUPPORTS
i-have-adhd
i-have-adhd installs for Qwen.
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manifest
Manifest 6.22.0 publishes custom provider models including Alibaba Qwen with readable aliases.
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Heretic
Qwen-based models incorporate Heretic as a provenance tag in model IDs on Hugging Face.
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RELEASED
cua-driver-rs
Qwen released cua-driver-rs v0.20.3 as the computer-use driver for their agents.
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BENCHMARKED AGAINST
AgentDV
AgentDV's 100% pass rate on RTL testbench generation exceeded Qwen's 60.6% average.
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claude_codex_bridge
claude_codex_bridge brokers the Qwen coding CLI.
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PREDICTS
Qwen 4
Qwen 3.8 Flash is described as preview of Qwen 4 architecture.
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RELEASED
Qwen 3.8 Flash
Qwen released Qwen 3.8 Flash, a 125B/6B-active multimodal MoE model.
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Thomson 1.0
Thomson 1.0 is trained by continuing training from Qwen on legal corpora.
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COMPETES WITH
Meta
Qwen achieved approximately 9 times more downloads than Meta models on Hugging Face Hub.
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Google
Qwen achieved approximately 5 times more downloads than Google models on Hugging Face Hub.
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Source trail

MetroLLM-Bench GitHub r/LocalLLaMA Bottleneck Labs PR #43624 PR #43712 live WebRTC voice opt-in memory v2 fix for compaction running at the wrong reasoning effort independent test abliterlitics.dev r/LocalLLaMA

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