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Cut Qwen3.8-27B Reasoning Tokens by 40% -- 3.8 'ThinkingCap' benchmarked!

Via r/LocalLlama
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2026 · 4:36PM
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I doubt I'm in the minority here when I say I love Qwen models, but the overthinking is a major timekiller. It was bad in 3.6-27B, and it's worse in 3.8. I know there are some who say, "well that's how it achieves such a good performance/size ratio"... But now there's some definitive proof that's no

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