Ornith 1.5 35B A3B shipped with untrained MTP head
Max-_-Power · reddit · 2026-08-21
It was discovered that the Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B model currently available on HuggingFace includes an MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) head that was never actually trained—it is just random initialization. This finding explains the significant performance degradation observed when using MTP with this model.
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