@malikwas1f: 1/ Qwen3.6-27B has quietly become the local model — and the base for an entire derivative ecosystem on Hugging Face (fi…
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The thread benchmarks Qwen3.6-27B's thinking mode vs non-thinking on 300+ problems, revealing surprising results for the popular local model and its derivative ecosystem on Hugging Face.
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1/ Qwen3.6-27B has quietly become the local model — and the base for an entire derivative ecosystem on Hugging Face (fine-tunes, merges, MTP variants). So I benchmarked the setting most of us probably enabled automatically:
“thinking” mode.
300+ problems. Reasoning on vs off.
The results surprised me.
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