I RL-trained Qwen3.6-35B-A3B to RL-train small task-specific Qwen models. Fully open source! 🤓
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The author trained a Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model using reinforcement learning to then RL-train small task-specific Qwen models, and has released everything fully open source.
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