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DeepSeek-V4-Pro distilled into Qwen3.5 9B/4B — a pretty interesting pair of compact reasoning models

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If you're looking for smaller Qwen3.5-based reasoning models that can still run locally, these two DeepSeek-V4-Pro distilled checkpoints are worth checking out: DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-9B DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-4B Both use the Qwen3.5 9B/4B family as the student models and transfer reasoning patte…

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  1. 2026-08-21 14:18 · r/huggingface
    DeepSeek-V4-Pro distilled into Qwen3.5 9B/4B — a pretty interesting pair of compact reasoning models

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