Gradio Distills Qwen's 9B Prompt Rewriter to 0.8B, Fully Open-Sources It

Gradio distilled Qwen-Image 2.1's 9B prompt rewriter—which needs 20GB VRAM—into 0.8B (812MB) and 2B models that run on laptops, open-sourcing the models, an 8,797-example chain-of-thought dataset, and all training and eval code under a non-commercial Qwen Research License.

2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-23 · 4 related posts

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