Tiny-Qwen update: PyTorch-native build for Qwen 3.8 27B model
No-Compote-6794 · reddit · 2026-08-15
The Tiny-Qwen repo was updated to support building Qwen 3.8 27B from scratch using PyTorch, with token-identical output to Hugging Face transformers. The codebase is cleaner, especially for linear attention. The update enables running the 27B model on 20GB+ memory with minimal overhead. It also includes a simple agentic harness providing CLI access.
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