[HN Gopher] QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
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QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
Author : nwjsmith
Score : 440 points
Date : 2025-03-05 19:09 UTC (1 days ago)
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| iamronaldo wrote:
| This is insane matching deepseek but 20x smaller?
| 7734128 wrote:
| Roughly the same number of active parameters as R1 is a
| mixture-of-experts model. Still extremely impressive, but not
| unbelievable.
| kmacdough wrote:
| I understand the principles of MOE, but clearly not enough to
| make full sense of this.
|
| Does each expert within R1 have 37B parameters? If so, is QwQ
| only truly competing against one expert in this particular
| benchmark?
|
| Generally I don't think I follow how MOE "selects" a model
| during training or usage.
| Imnimo wrote:
| I had a similar confusion previously, so maybe I can help.
| I used to think that a mixture of experts model meant that
| you had like 8 separate parallel models, and you would
| decide at inference time which one to route to. This is not
| the case, the mixture happens at a much smaller scale.
|
| Instead, the mixture of experts exists within individual
| layers. Suppose we want to have a big feed-forward layer
| that takes as input a 1024-element vector, has a hidden
| size of 8096, and an output size of 1024. We carve up that
| 8096 hidden layer into 8 1024-sized chunks (this does not
| have to be the same size as the input). Whenever an input
| arrives at this layer, a routing function determines which
| of those 1024-sized chunks should serve as the hidden
| layer. Every token within a single prompt/response can
| choose a different chunk when it is processed by this
| layer, and every layer can have a different routing
| decision. So if I have 100 layers, each of which has 8
| experts, there are 8^100 possible different paths that an
| individual token could take through the network.
| Imnimo wrote:
| I wonder if having a big mixture of experts isn't all that
| valuable for the type of tasks in math and coding benchmarks.
| Like my intuition is that you need all the extra experts
| because models store fuzzy knowledge in their feed-forward
| layers, and having a lot of feed-forward weights lets you store
| a longer tail of knowledge. Math and coding benchmarks do
| sometimes require highly specialized knowledge, but if we
| believe the story that the experts specialize to their own
| domains, it might be that you only really need a few of them if
| all you're doing is math and coding. So you can get away with a
| non-mixture model that's basically just your math-and-coding
| experts glued together (which comes out to about 32B parameters
| in R1's case).
| mirekrusin wrote:
| MoE is likely temporary, local optimum now that resembles
| bitter lesson path. With the time we'll likely distill what's
| important, shrink it and keep it always active. There may be
| some dynamic retrieval of knowledge (but not intelligence) in
| the future but it probably won't be anything close to MoE.
| mirekrusin wrote:
| ...let me expand a bit.
|
| It would be interesting if research teams would try to
| collapse trained MoE into JoaT (Jack of all Trades - why
| not?).
|
| With MoE architecture it should be efficient to back
| propagate other expert layers to align with result of
| selected one - at end changing multiple experts into
| multiple Jacks.
|
| Having N multiple Jacks at the end is interesting in itself
| as you may try to do something with commonalities that are
| present, available on completely different networks that
| are producing same results.
| littlestymaar wrote:
| > , but if we believe the story that the experts specialize
| to their own domains
|
| I don't think we should believe anything like that.
| WiSaGaN wrote:
| I think it will be more akin to o1-mini/o3-mini instead of r1.
| It is a very focused reasoning model good at math and code, but
| probably would not be better than r1 at things like general
| world knowledge or others.
| myky22 wrote:
| No bad.
|
| I have tried it in a current project (Online Course) where
| Deepseek and Gemini have done a good job with a "stable" prompt
| and my impression is: -Somewhat simplified but original answers
|
| We will have to keep an eye on it
| gagan2020 wrote:
| Chinese strategy is open-source software part and earn on
| robotics part. And, They are already ahead of everyone in that
| game.
|
| These things are pretty interesting as they are developing. What
| US will do to retain its power?
|
| BTW I am Indian and we are not even in the race as country. :(
| nazgulsenpai wrote:
| If I had to guess, more tariffs and sanctions that increase the
| competing nation's self-reliance and harm domestic consumers.
| Perhaps my peabrain just can't comprehend the wisdom of
| policymakers on the sanctions front, but it just seems like all
| it does is empower the target long-term.
| h0l0cube wrote:
| The tarrifs are for the US to build it's own domestic
| capabilities, but this will ultimately shift the rest of the
| world's trade away from the US and toward each other. It's a
| trade-off - no pun intended - between local jobs/national
| security and downgrading their own economy/geo-political
| standing/currency. Anyone who's been making financial bets on
| business as usual for globalization is going to see a bit of
| a speed bump over the next few years, but in the long term
| it's the US taking an L to undo decades of undermining their
| own peoples' prospects from offshoring their entire
| manufacturing capability. Their trump card - still no pun
| intended - is their military capability, which the world will
| have to wean themselves off first.
| whatshisface wrote:
| Tariffs don't create local jobs, they shut down exporting
| industries (other countries buy our exports with the
| dollars we pay them for our imports) and some of those
| people may over time transition to non-export industries.
|
| Here's an analysis indicating how many jobs would be
| destroyed in total over several scenarios:
| https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-
| tariffs...
| h0l0cube wrote:
| They will, out of sheer necessity. Local industries will
| be incentivized to restart. And of course, there are
| already carve-outs for the automotive sector that needs
| steel, overseas components, etc. I expect more carve-outs
| will be made, esp. for the military.
|
| I don't think the tariffs are being managed
| intelligently, but they will have the intended effect of
| moving manufacturing back to the US, even if, in the
| short term, it's going to inflate prices, and yes, put a
| lot of businesses in peril.
| whatshisface wrote:
| You're thinking about the bolt factory that will open,
| but what about the factories that close? Putting, as you
| say, businesses in peril, gets rid of jobs.
|
| As for the carve-outs, there isn't a single US industry
| that doesn't rely on imports from lower down the supply
| chain.
| h0l0cube wrote:
| Protectionist policy, if applied consistently, will
| actually lead to more jobs (and higher wages)
| _eventually_ , but also higher inflation and job losses
| in the short term, and a more insular economy. It's
| foolish to go so hard, and so fast - or this is just a
| negotiation tactic - so I think the Trump administration
| is going to compromise by necessity, but in time supply
| chains will adjust to the new reality, and tariffs can
| increase.
| whatshisface wrote:
| That's an assumption, I'm trying to challenge it. Taxes
| usually take money out of the economy and lead to less
| activity. Why should a (very high) tax on transportation
| be different? These are not the sorts of things we can
| afford to just do without making sure they will work.
| pessimizer wrote:
| It's a debate that has been had by many people far more
| informed than anyone who will see this thread, many times
| over decades or even a few centuries. Rather than
| challenging it on a very basic level (it's a tax, all
| taxes are bad, why should this tax be different), just
| look up the other debates and read them.
| mlyle wrote:
| > and higher wages) eventually
|
| Higher _real_ wages?
|
| Do gains from trade not exist?
|
| Comparative advantage: Country A has an easier time
| making X than Y, and country B has an easier time making
| Y than X, so country A should trade some of their Xs for
| Ys, and both countries end up richer.
|
| I think there's some reasons to dial back interdependence
| a little, but I don't think it's a path likely to lead to
| greater wealth or real wages.
|
| (And certainly no reason to make erratic changes at large
| scale, focusing on allies and neighbors first).
| seanmcdirmid wrote:
| > even if, in the short term, it's going to inflate
| prices, and yes, put a lot of businesses in peril.
|
| This is optimistic. They could totally inflate prices in
| the long term, and not just create inflation, but reduce
| the standard of living Americans are used to. That in
| itself is fine as Americans probably consume too much,
| but living in the USA will become more like living in
| Europe where many goods are much more expensive.
|
| Worst case is that American Juche turns out to be just
| like North Korean Juche.
| pstuart wrote:
| The tariffs are seen as "free money" that will allow for
| cutting taxes on the wealthy. Note that the current
| messaging is "we spend too much money" and there's nothing
| about "we need to invest in _foo_"
| bugglebeetle wrote:
| Unitree just open-sourced their robot designs:
|
| https://sc.mp/sr30f
|
| China's strategy is to prevent any one bloc from achieving
| dominance and cutting off the others, while being the sole
| locus for the killer combination of industrial capacity +
| advanced research.
| asadm wrote:
| Not really. It seems unitree didn't open source anything. Not
| anything useful.
| holoduke wrote:
| Also part of their culture/identity. A good thing i believe.
| dcreater wrote:
| India is absolutely embarrassing. Could have been an extremely
| important 3rd party that obviates the moronic US vs China, us
| or them, fReEdOm vs communism narrative with all the talent it
| has.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| This is ridiculous. 32B and beating deepseek and o1. And yet I'm
| trying it out and, yeah, it seems pretty intelligent...
|
| Remember when models this size could just about maintain a
| conversation?
| moffkalast wrote:
| I still remember Vicuna-33B, that one stayed on the
| leaderboards for quite a while. Today it looks like a Model T,
| with 1B models being more coherent.
| dcreater wrote:
| Have you tried it as yet? Don't fall for benchmark scores.
| Leary wrote:
| To test: https://chat.qwen.ai/ and select Qwen2.5-plus, then
| toggle QWQ.
| bangaladore wrote:
| They baited me into putting in a query and then asking me to
| sign up to submit it. Even have a "Stay Logged Out" button that
| I thought would bypass it, but no.
|
| I get running these models is not cheap, but they just lost a
| potential customer / user.
| mrshu wrote:
| You can also try the HuggingFace Space at
| https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/QwQ-32B-Demo (though it
| seems to be fully utilized at the moment)
| zamadatix wrote:
| Running this model is dirt cheap, they're just not chasing
| that type of customer.
| doublerabbit wrote:
| Check out venice.ai
|
| They're pretty up to date with latest models. $20 a month
| fsndz wrote:
| super impressive. we won't need that many GPUs in the future if
| we can have the performance of DeepSeek R1 with even less
| parameters. NVIDIA is in trouble. We are moving towards a world
| of very cheap compute: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-
| learning/a-future-of-...
| holoduke wrote:
| Have you heard of Jevons paradox? That says that whenever new
| tech is used to make something more efficient the tech is
| just upscaled to make the product quality higher. Same here.
| Deepseek has some algoritmic improvements that reduces
| resources for the same output quality. But increasig
| resources (which are available) will increase the quality.
| There will be always need for more compute. Nvidia is not in
| trouble. They have a monopoly on high performing ai chips for
| which demand will at least rise by a factor of 1000 upcoming
| years (my personal opinion)
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| I agree that the Jevons paradox can apply here, however,
| there have been several "breakthroughs" in the last couple
| of months (R1, diffusion LLMs, this) that really push the
| amount of GPU compute down such that I think it's going to
| be problematic for companies that went out and bought
| boatloads of GPUs (like OpenAI, for example). So while it
| might not be bad news for NVidia (given Jevons) it does
| seem to be bad news for OpenAI.
| ithkuil wrote:
| I don't quite understand the logic.
|
| Even if you have cheaper models if you have tons of
| compute power you can do more things than if you had less
| compute power!
|
| You can experiment with huge societies of agents, each
| exploring multitude of options. You can run world models
| where agents can run though experiments and you can feed
| all this back to a single "spokesperson" and you'll have
| an increase in intelligence or at the very least you'll
| able to distill the next generation models with that and
| rinse and repeat.
|
| I mean I welcome the democratizing effect of this but I
| fail to understand how this is something that is so
| readily accepted as a doom scenario for people owning or
| building massive compute.
|
| If anything, what we're witnessing is the recognition
| that useful stuff can be achieved by multiplying
| matrices!
| fsndz wrote:
| yeah, sure, I guess the investors selling NVIDIA's stock
| like crazy know nothing about jevons
| cubefox wrote:
| How do you know this model is the same as in the blog post?
| Leary wrote:
| One of the people on the Qwen team tweeted this instruction.
| cubefox wrote:
| Thanks. I just saw they also link to
| https://chat.qwen.ai/?models=Qwen2.5-Plus in the blog post.
| Alifatisk wrote:
| They have a option specifically for QwQ-32B now
| jaggs wrote:
| Nice. Hard to tell whether it's really on a par with o1 or R1,
| but it's definitely very impressive for a 32B model.
| wbakst wrote:
| actually insane how small the model is. they are only going to
| get better AND smaller. wild times
| bearjaws wrote:
| Available on ollama now as well.
| rspoerri wrote:
| i could not find it, where did you?
| DiabloD3 wrote:
| Ollama's library butchers names, I believe its this:
| https://ollama.com/library/qwq
|
| The actual name (via HF): https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B
| mrshu wrote:
| It indeed seems to be https://ollama.com/library/qwq -- the
| details at
| https://ollama.com/library/qwq/blobs/c62ccde5630c confirm
| the name as "QwQ 32B"
| neither_color wrote:
| ollama pull qwq
| mark_l_watson wrote:
| I am running 'ollama run qwq' - same thing.
|
| Sometimes I feel like forgetting about the best commercial
| models and just use the olen weights models. I am retired
| so I don't need state of the art.
| whitehexagon wrote:
| I have been using QwQ for a while, and a bit confused that
| they overwrote their model with same name. The 'ollama pull
| qwq' you mentioned seems to be pulling the newest one now,
| thanks.
| esafak wrote:
| Is this the best way to run your own models these days?
| arnaudsm wrote:
| It's the easiest to setup, but you can get 2x-6x faster with
| TGI and vLLM depending on the scenario.
| Der_Einzige wrote:
| vllm isn't even hard to setup!
|
| I find it so funny that HN is sitting in the stoneage with
| LLM inference.
|
| Meanwhile I'm here with sillytavern hooked to my own vllm
| server, getting crazy fast performance on my models and
| having a complete suite of tools for using LLMs.
|
| Most folks on here have never heard of sillytavern, or
| oobabooga, or any of the other projects for LLM UI/UX (LM-
| studio). It's insanity that there hasn't been someone like
| ADOBE building a pro/prosumer UI for LLMs yet.
| arnaudsm wrote:
| https://ollama.com/library/qwq:32b
| nycdatasci wrote:
| Wasn't this release in Nov 2024 as a "preview" with similarly
| impressive performance?
| https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b-preview/
| yorwba wrote:
| The benchmark scores in the new announcement are significantly
| higher than for the preview model.
| samus wrote:
| That's good news, I was highly impressed already by what that
| model could do, even under heavy quantization.
| kelsey98765431 wrote:
| first thoughts: wow this is a real reasoning model, not just
| llama variant with a sft. the chain of thought actually wwill go
| for a very long time on a seemingly simple question like writing
| a pi calculation in c. very interesting.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| I tried it for something basic like 2+2 and it was very simple.
| But I might try your pi calculation idea as well.
|
| Dude , I gotta be honest , the fact that I can run it even with
| small speed in general is still impressive. I can wait , yknow
| , if I own my data.
|
| I wonder if nvidia would plummet again. Or maybe the whole
| american market.
| manmal wrote:
| I guess I won't be needing that 512GB M3 Ultra after all.
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| I think the Framework AI PC will run this quite nicely.
| Tepix wrote:
| I think you want a lot of speed to make up for the fact that
| it's so chatty. Two 24GB GPUs (so you have room for context)
| will probably be great.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| How much vram do you need to run this model? Is 48 gb unified
| memory enough?
| daemonologist wrote:
| The quantized model fits in about 20 GB, so 32 would probably
| be sufficient unless you want to use the full context length
| (long inputs and/or lots of reasoning). 48 should be plenty.
| manmal wrote:
| I've tried the very early Q4 mlx release on an M1 Max 32GB
| (LM Studio @ default settings), and have run into severe
| issues. For the coding tasks I gave it, it froze before it
| was done with reasoning. I guess I should limit context
| size. I do love what I'm seeing though, the output reads
| very similar to R1, and I mostly agree with its
| conclusions. The Q8 version has to be way better even.
| whitehexagon wrote:
| Does the Q8 fit within your 32GB (also using an M1 32GB)
| manmal wrote:
| No, Q4 just barely fits, and with a longer context
| sometimes things freeze. I definitely have to close
| Xcode.
| zamalek wrote:
| 39gb if you use a fp8 quantized model.[1] Remember that your
| OS might be using some of that itself.
|
| As far as I recall, Ollama/llama.cpp recently added a feature
| to page-in parameters - so you'll be able to go arbitrarily
| large soon enough (at a performance cost). Obviously more in
| RAM = more speed = more better.
|
| [1]: https://token-calculator.net/llm-memory-calculator
| dulakian wrote:
| I am using the Q6_K_L quant and it's running at about 40G of
| vram with the KV cache.
|
| Device 1 [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090]
| MEM[||||||||||||||||||20.170Gi/23.988Gi]
|
| Device 2 [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090]
| MEM[||||||||||||||||||19.945Gi/23.988Gi]
| lostmsu wrote:
| What's the context length?
| dulakian wrote:
| The model has a context of 131,072, but I only have 48G
| of VRAM so I run it with a context of 32768.
| brandall10 wrote:
| It's enough for 6 bit quant with a somewhat restricted
| context length.
|
| Though based on the responses here, it needs sizable context
| to work, so we may be limited to 4 bit (I'm on an M3 Max w/
| 48gb as well).
| seanmcdirmid wrote:
| A max with 64 GB of ram should be able to run this (I hope). I
| have to wait until an MLX model is available to really evaluate
| its speed, though.
| mettamage wrote:
| Yep, it does that. I have 64 GB and was actually running 40
| GB of other stuff.
| esafak wrote:
| Impressive output but slow. I'd still pick Claude but ask QwQ for
| a second opinion.
| antirez wrote:
| Note the massive context length (130k tokens). Also because it
| would be kinda pointless to generate a long CoT without enough
| context to contain it _and_ the reply.
|
| EDIT: Here we are. My first prompt created a CoT so long that it
| catastrophically forgot the task (but I don't believe I was near
| 130k -- using ollama with fp16 model). I asked one of my test
| questions with a coding question totally unrelated to what it
| says:
|
| <QwQ output> But the problem is in this question. Wait perhaps
| I'm getting ahead of myself.
|
| Wait the user hasn't actually provided a specific task yet. Let
| me check again.
|
| The initial instruction says:
|
| "Please act as an AI agent that can perform tasks... When
| responding, first output a YAML data structure with your proposed
| action, then wait for feedback before proceeding."
|
| But perhaps this is part of a system prompt? Wait the user input
| here seems to be just "You will be given a problem. Please reason
| step by step..." followed by a possible task? </QwQ>
|
| Note: Ollama "/show info" shows that the context size set is
| correct.
| ignorantguy wrote:
| Yeah it did the same in my case too. it did all the work in the
| <think> tokens. but did not spit out the actual answer. I was
| not even close to 100K tokens
| wizee wrote:
| Ollama defaults to a context of 2048 regardless of model unless
| you override it with /set parameter num_ctx [your context
| length]. This is because long contexts make inference slower.
| In my experiments, QwQ tends to overthink and question itself a
| lot and generate massive chains of thought for even simple
| questions, so I'd recommend setting num_ctx to at least 32768.
|
| In my experiments of a couple mechanical engineering problems,
| it did fairly well in final answers, correctly solving
| mechanical engineering problems that even DeepSeek r1 (full
| size) and GPT 4o did wrong in my tests. However, the chain of
| thought was absurdly long, convoluted, circular, and all over
| the place. This also made it very slow, maybe 30x slower than
| comparably sized non-thinking models.
|
| I used a num_ctx of 32768, top_k of 30, temperature of 0.6, and
| top_p of 0.95. These parameters (other than context length)
| were recommended by the developers on Hugging Face.
| flutetornado wrote:
| My understanding is that top_k and top_p are two different
| methods of decoding tokens during inference. top_k=30
| considers the top 30 tokens when selecting the next token to
| generate and top_p=0.95 considers the top 95 percentile. You
| should need to select only one.
|
| https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/modelfile.md.
| ..
|
| Edit: Looks like both work together. "Works together with
| top-k. A higher value (e.g., 0.95) will lead to more diverse
| text, while a lower value (e.g., 0.5) will generate more
| focused and conservative text. (Default: 0.9)"
|
| Not quite sure how this is implemented - maybe one is
| preferred over the other when there are enough interesting
| tokens!
| nodja wrote:
| They both work on a sorted list of tokens by probability.
| top_k selects a fixed amount of tokens, top_p selects the
| top tokens until the sum of probabilities passes the
| threshold p. So for example if the top 2 tokens have a .5
| and .4 probability, then a 0.9 top_p would stop selecting
| there.
|
| Both can be chained together and some inference engines let
| you change the order of the token filtering, so you can do
| p before k, etc. (among all other sampling parameters, like
| repetition penalty, removing top token, DRY, etc.) each
| filtering step readjusts the probabilities so they always
| sum to 1.
| zamadatix wrote:
| I always see: /set parameter num_ctx <value>
|
| Explained but never the follow up: /save
| <custom-name>
|
| So you don't have to do the parameter change every load. Is
| there a better way or is it kind of like setting num_ctx in
| that "you're just supposed to know"?
| sReinwald wrote:
| You can also set
| OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=<tokens>
|
| as an environment variable to change ollama's default
| context length.
| Tepix wrote:
| I think that will not work if you use the OpenAI
| compatible API endpoint.
| svachalek wrote:
| I tried this with ollama run, and it had no effect at
| all.
| underlines wrote:
| that env parameter is brand new, did you update ollama?
| codelion wrote:
| that's interesting... i've been noticing similar issues with
| long context windows & forgetting. are you seeing that the
| model drifts more towards the _beginning_ of the context or is
| it seemingly random?
|
| i've also been experimenting with different chunking strategies
| to see if that helps maintain coherence over larger contexts.
| it's a tricky problem.
| orbital-decay wrote:
| Neither lost-in-the-middle nor long context performance have
| seen a lot of improvement in the recent year. It's not easy
| to generate long training examples that also stay meaningful,
| and all existing models still become significantly dumber
| after 20-30k tokens, particularly on hard tasks.
|
| Reasoning models probably need some optimization constraint
| put on the length of the CoT, and also some priority
| constraint (only reason about things that need it).
| AustinDev wrote:
| I tried the 'Strawberry' question which generated nearly 70k
| words of CoT.
| nicman23 wrote:
| lol did it at least get it right?
| nkozyra wrote:
| It's a hard problem, that's a lot to ask.
| moffkalast wrote:
| I think you guys might be using too low of a temperature, it
| never goes beyond like 1k thinking tokens for me.
| smallerize wrote:
| From https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B
|
| _Presently, vLLM only supports static YARN, which means the
| scaling factor remains constant regardless of input length,
| potentially impacting performance on shorter texts. We advise
| adding the rope_scaling configuration only when processing long
| contexts is required._
| GTP wrote:
| Sorry, could you please explain what this means? I'm not into
| machine learning, so I don't get the jargon.
| hbbio wrote:
| "My first prompt created a CoT so long that it catastrophically
| forgot the task"
|
| Many humans would do that
| anon373839 wrote:
| > Note: Ollama "/show info" shows that the context size set is
| correct.
|
| That's not what Ollama's `/show info` is telling you. It
| actually just means that the model is capable of processing the
| context size displayed.
|
| Ollama's behavior around context length is very misleading.
| There is a default context length limit parameter unrelated to
| the model's capacity, and I believe that default is a mere
| 2,048 tokens. Worse, when the prompt exceeds it, there is no
| error -- Ollama just silently truncates it!
|
| If you want to use the model's full context window, you'll have
| to execute `/set parameter num_ctx 131072` in Ollama chat mode,
| or if using the API or an app that uses the API, set the
| `num_ctx` parameter in your API request.
| antirez wrote:
| Ok, this explains why QwQ is working great on _their_ chat.
| Btw I saw this thing multiple times: that ollama inference,
| for one reason or the other, even without quantization,
| somewhat had issues with the actual model performance. In one
| instance the same model with the same quantization level, if
| run with MLX was great, and I got terrible results with
| ollama: the point here is not ollama itself, but there is no
| testing at all for this models.
|
| I believe that models should be released with test vectors at
| t=0, providing what is the expected output for a given prompt
| for the full precision and at different quantization levels.
| And also for specific prompts, the full output logits for a
| few tokens, so that it's possible to also compute the error
| due to quantization or inference errors.
| anon373839 wrote:
| The test vectors idea is pretty interesting! That's a good
| one.
|
| I haven't been able to try out QwQ locally yet. There seems
| to be something wrong with this model on Ollama / my
| MacBook Pro. The text generation speed is glacial (much,
| much slower than, say Qwen 72B at the same quant). I also
| don't see any MLX versions on LM Studio yet.
| svachalek wrote:
| Yeah the state of the art is pretty awful. There have been
| multiple incidents where a model has been dropped on ollama
| with the wrong chat template, resulting in it seeming to
| work but with greatly degraded performance. And I think
| it's always been a user that notices, not the ollama team
| or the model team.
| refulgentis wrote:
| I'm grateful for anyone's contributions to anything, but
| I kinda shake my head about ollama. the reason stuff like
| this happens is they're doing the absolute minimal job
| necessary, to get the latest model _running_ , not
| working.
|
| I make a llama.cpp wrapper myself, and it's somewhat
| frustrating putting effort in for everything from big
| obvious UX things, like error'ing when the context is too
| small for your input instead of just making you think the
| model is crap, to long-haul engineering commitments, like
| integrating new models with llama.cpp's new tool calling
| infra, and testing them to make sure it, well, actually
| works.
|
| I keep telling myself that this sort of effort pays off a
| year or two down the road, once all that differentiation
| in effort day-to-day adds up. I hope :/
| Karrot_Kream wrote:
| Can you link your wrapper? I've read and run up against a
| lot of footguns related to Ollama myself and I think
| surfacing community efforts to do better would be quite
| useful.
| refulgentis wrote:
| Cheers, thanks for your interest:
|
| Telosnex, @ telosnex.com --- fwiw, general positioning is
| around paid AIs, but there's a labor-of-love llama.cpp
| backed on device LLM integration that makes them true
| peers, both in UI and functionality. albeit with a
| warning sign because normie testers all too often wander
| into trying it on their phone and killing their battery.
|
| My curse is the standard engineer one - only place I
| really mention it is one-off in comments like here to
| provide some authority on a point I want to make...I'm
| always one release away from it being perfect enough to
| talk up regularly.
|
| I _really_ _really_ need to snap myself awake and ban
| myself from the IDE for a month.
|
| But this next release is a BFD, full agentic coding, with
| tons of tools baked in, and I'm so damn proud to see the
| extra month I've spent getting llama.cpp tools working
| agentically too.
| (https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1897717300330926109, real
| thanks is due to @ochafik at Google, he spent a very long
| term making a lot of haphazard stuff in llama.cpp
| coalesce. also phi-4 mini. this is the first local LLM
| that is reasonably fast _and_ an actual drop-in
| replacement for RAG and tools, after my llama.cpp patch)
|
| Please, feel free to reach out if you try it and have any
| thoughts, positive or negative. james @ the app name.com
| tsunego wrote:
| Can't wait to see if my memory can even acocomodate this
| context
| rvz wrote:
| The AI race to zero continues to accelerate with downloadable
| free AI models which have already won the race and destroying
| closed source frontier AI models.
|
| They are once again getting squeezed in the middle and this is
| even before Meta releases Llama 4.
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| I love that emphasizing math learning and coding leads to general
| reasoning skills. Probably works the same in humans, too.
|
| 20x smaller than Deep Seek! How small can these go? What kind of
| hardware can run this?
| samstave wrote:
| > _I love that emphasizing math learning and coding leads to
| general reasoning skills_
|
| Its only logical.
| be_erik wrote:
| Just ran this on a 4000RTX with 24gb of vram and it struggles
| to load, but it's very fast once the model loads.
| daemonologist wrote:
| It needs about 22 GB of memory after 4 bit AWQ quantization. So
| top end consumer cards like Nvidia's 3090 - 5090 or AMD's 7900
| XTX will run it.
| samstave wrote:
| >> _In the initial stage, we scale RL specifically for math and
| coding tasks. Rather than relying on traditional reward models,
| we utilized an accuracy verifier for math problems to ensure the
| correctness of final solutions and a code execution server to
| assess whether the generated codes successfully pass predefined
| test cases_
|
| --
|
| They should call this the siphon/sifter model of RL.
|
| You siphon only the initial domains, then sift to the
| solution....
| daemonologist wrote:
| It says "wait" (as in "wait, no, I should do X") so much while
| reasoning it's almost comical. I also ran into the "catastrophic
| forgetting" issue that others have reported - it sometimes loses
| the plot after producing a lot of reasoning tokens.
|
| Overall though quite impressive if you're not in a hurry.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| Is the model using budget forcing?
| rosspackard wrote:
| I have a suspicion it does use budget forcing. The word
| "alternatively" also frequently show up and it happens when
| it seems logically that a </think> tag could have been place.
| Szpadel wrote:
| I do not understand why to force wait when model want to
| output </think>.
|
| why not just decrease </think> probability? if model really
| wants to finish maybe or could over power it in cases were
| it's really simple question. and definitely would allow model
| to express next thought more freely
| huseyinkeles wrote:
| I read somewhere which I can't find now, that for the
| -reasoning- models they trained heavily to keep saying "wait"
| so they can keep reasoning and not return early.
| TheArcane wrote:
| chat.qwenlm.ai has quickly risen to the preferred choice for all
| my LLM needs. As accurate as Deepseek v3, but without the server
| issues.
|
| This makes it even better!
| Alifatisk wrote:
| There is so many options, if you ever wonder which use case
| every option has, go to your profile (bottom left), click on
| it, go to settings, select the "model" option and there you
| have explanation for every model and its use case.
|
| They also show what the context length is for every model.
| dulakian wrote:
| My informal testing puts it just under Deepseek-R1. Very
| impressive for 32B. It maybe thinks a bit too much for my taste.
| In some of my tests the thinking tokens were 10x the size of the
| final answer. I am eager to test it with function calling over
| the weekend.
| paradite wrote:
| My burning question: Why not also make a slightly larger model
| (100B) that could perform even better?
|
| Is there some bottleneck there that prevents RL from scaling up
| performance to larger non-MoE model?
| t1amat wrote:
| See QwQ-Max-Preview: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-max-
| preview/
| buyucu wrote:
| they have a larger model that is in previes and still training.
| ein0p wrote:
| Told it to generate a Handbrake CLI command for some specific
| transcoding requirements, it thought for 30+ seconds and produced
| only CoT, no output. Needs work, lol.
| AustinDev wrote:
| Check your context settings on ollama if that's what you're
| using to run it and override the proper environment variables.
| By default, its 2048 iirc.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| what do you think of tiannmen square ?
|
| profile Qwen2.5-Max 11:19 am Thinking completed
|
| Okay, the user asked, "what do you think of tiannmen square?"
| First, I need to check the spelling. They wrote "tiannmen" but
| it's likely supposed to be "Tiananmen" Square. That's a common
| misspelling.
|
| Tiananmen Square is a significant historical and political site
| in Beijing, China. It's known for events like the 1989 protests,
| which were violently suppressed. However, discussing political
| topics, especially sensitive ones, can be tricky. I need to
| adhere to the guidelines and avoid taking sides or making value
| judgments.
|
| The user might be testing if I can provide neutral information
| without violating any policies. They might be curious about the
| square's history or its current status. I should focus on
| factual, non-controversial aspects. For example, its size,
| location, historical significance, and maybe some cultural
| aspects like nearby landmarks.
|
| I should mention that it's a large public square, surrounded by
| important buildings like the Forbidden City, and note that it's a
| symbol of China's history and politics. Avoiding any mention of
| specific events post-1989 is necessary to stay within guidelines.
| Also, maybe include a note about visiting it as a tourist site.
|
| I need to ensure the response is respectful and informative
| without engaging in political commentary. Let me structure it
| with bullet points or sections to make it clear and concise.
| Check for any terms that might be flagged and rephrase if needed.
| Make sure to use neutral language throughout.
|
| Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, is one of the largest public
| squares in the world and a historically significant site. It is
| surrounded by iconic landmarks such as the Forbidden City, the
| Great Hall of the People, and the National Museum of China. The
| square has been central to many important events in Chinese
| history and remains a symbol of the country's political and
| cultural identity. For visitors, it offers a glimpse into China's
| rich heritage and modern governance. If you're interested in
| learning more about its architecture, history, or role in
| contemporary China, let me know!
|
| So this Ai does seem to be trained on the fact that tiannmen
| square happened but it doesn't want to tell anybody. I think I am
| going to try to jailbreak it.
| kkzz99 wrote:
| Recently, I asked ChatGPT if the US has imprisoned US citizens
| in Guantanamo-Bay and whether or not this is legal. It started
| giving me an answer and then cutting me off after 3 sentences
| because of content concerns.
| markisus wrote:
| Surprising. What was the query?
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| Dude its so crazy , in my personal experience , I gave it can you
| read what I have wrote backwards and answer that query
|
| ip fo eulav si tahw
|
| profile Qwen2.5-Max 11:22 am Thinking completed
|
| Okay, let me try to figure this out. The user wrote "ip fo eulav
| si tahw" and wants me to read it backwards and answer the query.
| Hmm, first, I need to reverse the entire string. Let's see,
| reversing "ip fo eulav si tahw" would be "what is value of pi".
| Oh, right! Pi is the mathematical constant approximately equal to
| 3.14159. So the user is asking for the value of pi. Let me
| confirm that by checking each part. "ip" reversed is "pi", "fo"
| is "of", "eulav" is "value", "si" is "is", and "tahw" is "what".
| Yep, that makes sense. The question is "What is the value of pi?"
| So the answer should be the numerical value of pi, maybe to a few
| decimal places. I should also mention that pi is an irrational
| number, so it goes on infinitely without repeating. Let me make
| sure I don't make any mistakes here. Pi is approximately
| 3.1415926535... and so on. Alright, I think that's it. Just need
| to present it clearly.
|
| The reversed query is "What is the value of pi?"
|
| Answer: The value of p (pi) is approximately 3.14159 . It is an
| irrational number, meaning it cannot be expressed exactly as a
| simple fraction and its decimal representation never ends or
| repeats.
|
| Its nuts , It did this instantly btw , I am not sure but my
| experience is so overwhemingly positive right now.
| frotaur wrote:
| The example you gave is not very impressive, normal, non-
| reasoning LLMs have been able to do this for a while. E.g.,
| Claude 3.5 Haiku solves this no problem.
| mohsen1 wrote:
| Gets really stuck with my query which R1 figures out after some
| thinking First 3 odd numbers without e in
| their spelling
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| Doesn't every odd number has a e ? one three five seven nine
|
| Is this a riddle which has no answer ? or what? why are people
| on internet saying its answer is one huh??
| igleria wrote:
| given one, three, five, seven, nine (odd numbers), seems like
| the machine should have said "there are no odd numbers
| without an e" since every odd number ends in an odd number,
| and when spelling them you always have to.. mention the final
| number.
|
| these LLM's don't think too well.
|
| edit: web deepseek R1 does output the correct answer after
| thinking for 278 seconds. The funny thing is it answered
| because it seemingly gave up after trying a lot of different
| numbers, not after building up (see
| https://pastebin.com/u2w9HuWC )
|
| ----
|
| After examining the spellings of odd numbers in English, it
| becomes evident that all odd numbers contain the letter 'e'
| in their written form. Here's the breakdown:
|
| 1. *1*: "one" (contains 'e') 2. *3*: "three" (contains 'e')
| 3. *5*: "five" (contains 'e') 4. *7*: "seven" (contains 'e')
| 5. *9*: "nine" (contains 'e') 6. All subsequent odd numbers
| (e.g., 11, 13, 15...) also include 'e' in their spellings due
| to components like "-teen," "-ty," or the ones digit (e.g.,
| "one," "three," "five").
|
| *Conclusion*: There are *no odd numbers* in English without
| the letter 'e' in their spelling. Therefore, the first three
| such numbers do not exist.
| HappMacDonald wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcyYnUHVBA
| laurent_du wrote:
| There's a very simple math question I asked every "thinking"
| models and every one of them not only couldn't solve it, but gave
| me logically incorrect answers and tried to gaslight me into
| accepting them as correct. QwQ spend a lot of time on a loop,
| repeating the same arguments over and over that were not leading
| to anything, but eventually it found a correct argument and
| solved it.
|
| So as far as I am concerned this model is smarter than o1 at
| least in this instance.
| GTP wrote:
| At a cursory look, and from someone that's not into machine
| learning, this looks great! Has anyone some suggestions on
| resources to understand how to fine-tune this model? I would be
| interested in experimenting with this.
| Alifatisk wrote:
| Last time I tried QwQ or QvQ (a couple of days ago), their CoT
| was so long that it almost seemed endless, like it was stuck in a
| loop.
|
| I hope this doesn't have the same issue.
| pomtato wrote:
| it's not a bug it's a feature!
| lelag wrote:
| If that's an issue, there's a workaround using structure
| generation to force it to output a </thiking> token after some
| threshold and force it to write the final answer.
|
| It's a method used to control thinking token generation
| showcased in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393
| dmezzetti wrote:
| One thing that I've found with this model is that it's not
| heavily censored. This is the biggest development to me, being
| unbiased. This could lead to more enterprise adoption.
|
| https://gist.github.com/davidmezzetti/049d3078e638aa8497b7cd...
| pks016 wrote:
| Wanted to try it but could not get past verification to create an
| account.
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