Running Muse-Glimmer Locally: Reasoning Traces Described as Disorganized and Drunk

Certain-Cod-1404 · reddit · 2026-08-11

A developer running the Muse-Glimmer model locally on an RTX 5090 noticed highly unusual reasoning traces. Unlike the organized planning seen in Qwen or Gemma, this model's thought process is chaotic, repetitive, refers to itself as "we," and pointlessly brings up safety policies. The author questions whether this drunk-like looping reasoning actually helps the model or just impedes its output.

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