Qwen 3.8 default temp 1.0 causes garbage output, 0.1 fixes it
KeepyUpper · reddit · 2026-08-19
A user reported that Qwen 3.8 produces garbage output—hallucinations, cut-off sentences, or character spam—after 10-20k tokens when using the recommended high temperature (1.0).
Issue:
- Occurs on both vLLM and llama.cpp.
- The thinking process breaks down and devolves into nonsense.
Fix:
Lowering the temperature to 0.1 immediately resolves the issue and also improves generation speed. The user suspects Qwen 3.8 might be particularly sensitive to KV cache quantization or requires specific configuration changes, as Qwen 3.6 did not exhibit this behavior.
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