NEX-N2-mini: "There is no Pareto frontier. I am Pareto". This Qwen3.5-MoE fine tune fixed 3.5 and 3.6 overthinking apparently on my tests.
Summary
A fine-tuned version of Qwen3.5-MoE called NEX-N2-mini reportedly fixes overthinking issues seen in Qwen 3.5 and 3.6 models.
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