20B Looping paper says it matches Qwen3 Coder 30B with 10% of pretraining tokens
Dany0 · reddit · 2026-07-21
A paper on a 20B Looping model claims it matches or beats Qwen3 Coder 30B while using only 10% of the pre-training tokens.
- The post says the run may have cost only hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- The author notes it did not beat GPT-OSS 20B on every dimension, but the efficiency jump is the real headline.
- The bigger implication: training a true LLM from scratch on 3.5T tokens instead of 35T could eventually make home-scale pretraining more realistic.
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