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Getting weird repeating characters during decode

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As I optimize llama.cpp to suit my hardware, getting more and more speed, I’m running into a major problem mostly with Qwen models but sometimes with others. As decode speed goes up, the model will all of sudden start repeating a character and can’t break out of the repeat: ////////////////////////…

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  1. 2026-09-10 05:24 · r/LocalLLM
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