How Far Can Qwen 3.6 27B's Context Really Go
milpster · reddit · 2026-07-12
The author asks how far the long context can be "reasonably stretched" in practical use for Qwen 3.6 27B. They have currently pushed the context window to 100k but are still unsatisfied. They also ask if there are methods other than not quantizing the KV cache to make the model more stable at longer contexts.
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