Swift Qwen 3.8 27B hits 100k+ downloads, cutting token use 58.3% with 1.95x speed
Secure_Recording_472 · reddit · 2026-09-18
Jovan from small lab UkisAI thanked the community as Swift Qwen 3.8 27B passed 100k downloads, ranking #1 finetune and #9 overall on HuggingFace Trending.
- The approach penalizes pathological overthinking patterns in small LLMs rather than training them to think shorter: token usage drops 58.3% and speed improves 1.95x with no accuracy loss
- Upcoming releases: Swift1.5 Qwen3.8 27B (fixed training bugs, more RL) and Swift Qwen3.8 Flash Next next week, with an expanded benchmark suite including coding and long-horizon tasks
- The team is soliciting community requests on quants and features for future releases
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