Qwen Is the Workhorse: Nearly Every Decision Model on HuggingFace Fine-tunes From It
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-11-10
The author observes that nearly every decision model on HuggingFace is built on a Qwen3.8-27B base. While US company models may catch up, everyone keeps fine-tuning Qwen — "like a Toyota truck": numerically stable for fine-tuning, if not always a genius. Other models suffer from numeric instability, making Qwen the de facto base of the open fine-tuning ecosystem.
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