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Yoshino 0.8B, Granite style decisive reasoning distilled into Qwen3.5 0.8B

The hype around small language models such as Qwen3 0.6B, Qwen3.5 0.8B, or models in the SmolLM2 series is that they can be used in low resource and mobile devices, but the problem (and honestly for me the buzzkill) was the fact that these models tend to be quite unstable and are only really useful…

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  1. 2026-10-17 14:23 · r/huggingface
    Yoshino 0.8B, Granite style decisive reasoning distilled into Qwen3.5 0.8B

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