EDIT: Here we are. My first prompt created a CoT so long that it catastrophically forgot the task (but I don't believe I was near 130k -- using ollama with fp16 model). I asked one of my test questions with a coding question totally unrelated to what it says:
<QwQ output> But the problem is in this question. Wait perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.
Wait the user hasn't actually provided a specific task yet. Let me check again.
The initial instruction says:
"Please act as an AI agent that can perform tasks... When responding, first output a YAML data structure with your proposed action, then wait for feedback before proceeding."
But perhaps this is part of a system prompt? Wait the user input here seems to be just "You will be given a problem. Please reason step by step..." followed by a possible task? </QwQ>
Note: Ollama "/show info" shows that the context size set is correct.
That's not what Ollama's `/show info` is telling you. It actually just means that the model is capable of processing the context size displayed.
Ollama's behavior around context length is very misleading. There is a default context length limit parameter unrelated to the model's capacity, and I believe that default is a mere 2,048 tokens. Worse, when the prompt exceeds it, there is no error -- Ollama just silently truncates it!
If you want to use the model's full context window, you'll have to execute `/set parameter num_ctx 131072` in Ollama chat mode, or if using the API or an app that uses the API, set the `num_ctx` parameter in your API request.
I believe that models should be released with test vectors at t=0, providing what is the expected output for a given prompt for the full precision and at different quantization levels. And also for specific prompts, the full output logits for a few tokens, so that it's possible to also compute the error due to quantization or inference errors.
I make a llama.cpp wrapper myself, and it's somewhat frustrating putting effort in for everything from big obvious UX things, like error'ing when the context is too small for your input instead of just making you think the model is crap, to long-haul engineering commitments, like integrating new models with llama.cpp's new tool calling infra, and testing them to make sure it, well, actually works.
I keep telling myself that this sort of effort pays off a year or two down the road, once all that differentiation in effort day-to-day adds up. I hope :/
Telosnex, @ telosnex.com --- fwiw, general positioning is around paid AIs, but there's a labor-of-love llama.cpp backed on device LLM integration that makes them true peers, both in UI and functionality. albeit with a warning sign because normie testers all too often wander into trying it on their phone and killing their battery.
My curse is the standard engineer one - only place I really mention it is one-off in comments like here to provide some authority on a point I want to make...I'm always one release away from it being perfect enough to talk up regularly.
I really really need to snap myself awake and ban myself from the IDE for a month.
But this next release is a BFD, full agentic coding, with tons of tools baked in, and I'm so damn proud to see the extra month I've spent getting llama.cpp tools working agentically too. (https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1897717300330926109, real thanks is due to @ochafik at Google, he spent a very long term making a lot of haphazard stuff in llama.cpp coalesce. also phi-4 mini. this is the first local LLM that is reasonably fast and an actual drop-in replacement for RAG and tools, after my llama.cpp patch)
Please, feel free to reach out if you try it and have any thoughts, positive or negative. james @ the app name.com
I haven't been able to try out QwQ locally yet. There seems to be something wrong with this model on Ollama / my MacBook Pro. The text generation speed is glacial (much, much slower than, say Qwen 72B at the same quant). I also don't see any MLX versions on LM Studio yet.
In my experiments of a couple mechanical engineering problems, it did fairly well in final answers, correctly solving mechanical engineering problems that even DeepSeek r1 (full size) and GPT 4o did wrong in my tests. However, the chain of thought was absurdly long, convoluted, circular, and all over the place. This also made it very slow, maybe 30x slower than comparably sized non-thinking models.
I used a num_ctx of 32768, top_k of 30, temperature of 0.6, and top_p of 0.95. These parameters (other than context length) were recommended by the developers on Hugging Face.
/set parameter num_ctx <value>
/save <custom-name>
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/modelfile.md...
Edit: Looks like both work together. "Works together with top-k. A higher value (e.g., 0.95) will lead to more diverse text, while a lower value (e.g., 0.5) will generate more focused and conservative text. (Default: 0.9)"
Not quite sure how this is implemented - maybe one is preferred over the other when there are enough interesting tokens!
Both can be chained together and some inference engines let you change the order of the token filtering, so you can do p before k, etc. (among all other sampling parameters, like repetition penalty, removing top token, DRY, etc.) each filtering step readjusts the probabilities so they always sum to 1.
Many humans would do that
I use modelfiles because I only use ollama because it has easy integration with other stuff eg with zed, so this way I can easily choose models with a set context size directly.
Here nothing fancy, just
FROM qwq
PARAMETER num_ctx 100000
ollama create qwq-100k -f path/to/that/modelfile
Presently, vLLM only supports static YARN, which means the scaling factor remains constant regardless of input length, potentially impacting performance on shorter texts. We advise adding the rope_scaling configuration only when processing long contexts is required.
i've also been experimenting with different chunking strategies to see if that helps maintain coherence over larger contexts. it's a tricky problem.
Reasoning models probably need some optimization constraint put on the length of the CoT, and also some priority constraint (only reason about things that need it).
These things are pretty interesting as they are developing. What US will do to retain its power?
BTW I am Indian and we are not even in the race as country. :(
Here's an analysis indicating how many jobs would be destroyed in total over several scenarios: https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs...
I don't think the tariffs are being managed intelligently, but they will have the intended effect of moving manufacturing back to the US, even if, in the short term, it's going to inflate prices, and yes, put a lot of businesses in peril.
This is optimistic. They could totally inflate prices in the long term, and not just create inflation, but reduce the standard of living Americans are used to. That in itself is fine as Americans probably consume too much, but living in the USA will become more like living in Europe where many goods are much more expensive.
Worst case is that American Juche turns out to be just like North Korean Juche.
This will all happen. But as I said, this is a trade-off. Devalue the currency, incentivize local production, increase exports, revive the working class – that's the long term goal.
> but reduce the standard of living Americans are used to.
Whose standard of living though? It's well and good if you're in a comfy desk job with health care and a pension. The discontent that led to Trump's rise is real, and it's routinely overlooked when considering how to counter him. Of the everyday people, those who have stable jobs and purpose aren't voting for Trump. (Of the wealthy, it's probably a lot more cynical who voted for Trump)
I'm not in favor of the policy, the manner in which it's being applied, or the people that are doing it, but reversing off-shoring is a consequence of using protectionist policies – be it tariffs, or subsidies.
High-skill work, and pencil-pushing desk jobs don't cover 100% of the population, and has lead to a lot of unproductive busy-work in the cities. The offshoring of blue-collar work bred the discontent that led to Trump. Trump fancies himself the new William McKinley and is using the cudgel of tariffs to re-onshore manufacturing. This is a process he started in his first administration, that was retained by Biden, and now he's doubling down and doing exactly what he promised he would – and somehow his voters are surprised?
Worse still, those service economy jobs keeping the coastal cities alive (both low skill and high skill) are on the verge of being replaced by AI – whether that's one year or 20, I don't know—though I'm wagering the latter. Physical labor is going to become more valuable as robotics is still way behind in technological development. I don't have a crystal ball, but I'd wager that–at least counterfactually—the US will have more jobs by enacting protectionist policy.
> Worst case is that American Juche turns out to be just like North Korean Juche.
Do you really in your heart of hearts think this is going to happen? I'm pretty sure the subjugation of the American people by the government would be feasible, let alone easy.
The fundamental problem is that people want low-value jobs (manufacturing clothes irons, screw drivers, ceramic mugs) with a contemporary American middle class living wages. It just doesn't math though. If you make mugs by hand all day you simply cannot create enough value in a day to keep up with the person who automates production lines all day.
Worse yet, they want those wages while also still being able to go to walmart and buy...clothes irons, screw drivers, and ceramic mugs for <$20 (maybe $50 for the iron).
We already just saw how this went over during the pandemic. Many people got $20/hr jobs for the first time in their life. A wage they have always dreamed of while slogging in $10-$12/hr jobs. Then it happened...but it felt the same as when they were making $12/hr. This is because the intrisic value they create didn't change. Value creation is what determines the structure of an economy, not wages or dollars or any other currency, those are just proxies.
The intrinsic value of making this stuff in the US just isn't there to make it viable to compete with the large number of high intrinsic value job workers in the US.
Personally, I am completely in favor of all these policies. We are basically going to go through a period of austerity.
It is really what makes this system so incredible. Such a dynamic system to go from sending people checks in the mail to a few short years later, austerity. People get much too involved though with the personalities as opposed to what the system is doing as a whole.
At the most macro level, I think there is a tremendous amount of denial that the unipolar moment is over. The arguments against austerity here are just clinging to a time that has come and gone. It is like wishing I could stay in my 30s forever.
AI is also incredibly deflationary long term. The path we were on would have devalued the currency long term. If we get control of the debt and re-shore manufacturing, I can't imagine that not being good for the currency. I think the easiest way to get a non-distorted view is by flipping things around from the perspective of China.
All of this would seem bad from the Chinese perspective.
I feel like we are also doing a type of Yuan gambit to the world long term here.
Sick of the US? Well the Yuan is right there for you to take. We are betting on the gambit being refused.
If we could just turn the temperature down on the political personality bullshit there is so much interesting discussion to be had but it is almost impossible that it currently doesn't turn into a pointless food fight.
> All of this would seem bad from the Chinese perspective.
China is leading with very aggressive investments in AI and automation, along with clean energy and clean energy vehicles. America is...just blustering mostly, some AI investments, but not much beyond that. China is set to reap more of the AI revolution than the US is, so it is very good from the Chinese perspective, especially given the increasing skill gap between Chinese and American talent. The MAGA effort is just making it worse by de-emphasizing education even more. Like Trump, Xi is an autocrat for sure, but unlike Trump he isn't stupid.
As for the carve-outs, there isn't a single US industry that doesn't rely on imports from lower down the supply chain.
Higher real wages?
Do gains from trade not exist?
Comparative advantage: Country A has an easier time making X than Y, and country B has an easier time making Y than X, so country A should trade some of their Xs for Ys, and both countries end up richer.
I think there's some reasons to dial back interdependence a little, but I don't think it's a path likely to lead to greater wealth or real wages.
(And certainly no reason to make erratic changes at large scale, focusing on allies and neighbors first).
> And certainly no reason to make erratic changes at large scale, focusing on allies and neighbors first
Those people who benefited from globalization, and who didn't care about the working class, are exactly who brought us to this moment. And I have a huge shrug to those who are loath to accept that. If only it was attended to sooner by a more sensible administration.
This is an oversimplification, they can change incentives, and sometimes increase investment.
> lead to less activity
I do agree money will be divested from the US as they become more and more expensive to deal with (leading to "less activity"), and like I said this will rechannel the economy between the rest of the world. The trade-off is that the US becomes a manufacturer and exporter again (leading to "replaced activity"), some manufacturing capability is duplicated (leading to "more activity" though redundant/less productive), and the currency devalues.
But I'll admit I'm well out of my depth here, and I'm being booed off the stage. All the same, I don't think I'm wrong here. Protectionism isn't new, and lots of countries do it, it's just novel that the world's largest economy and bastion of free trade is doing it to such an extreme.
Once again, I'm well out of my depth to be able to speculate here. But ostensibly globalization hasn't worked for the working class of America, and that has led to the current state of affairs.
China’s strategy is to prevent any one bloc from achieving dominance and cutting off the others, while being the sole locus for the killer combination of industrial capacity + advanced research.
China’s strategy is to prevent any one bloc from achieving dominance and cutting off the others, while being the sole locus for the killer combination of industrial capacity + advanced research.
Why are you surprised?
India was on a per capita basis poorer than sub-Saharan Africa until 2004.
The only reason India is no longer poorer than Africa is because the West (the IMF and World Bank) forced India to do structural reforms in 1991 that stopped the downward trajectory of the Indian economy since its 1947 independence.
The only reason India is no longer poorer than Africa is because the West (the IMF and World Bank) forced India to do structural reforms in 1991 that stopped the downward trajectory of the Indian economy since its 1947 independence.
20x smaller than Deep Seek! How small can these go? What kind of hardware can run this?
Its only logical.
Overall though quite impressive if you're not in a hurry.
why not just decrease </think> probability? if model really wants to finish maybe or could over power it in cases were it's really simple question. and definitely would allow model to express next thought more freely
why not just decrease </think> probability?
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/51ed61e2f05...
S1 does something similar to put a lower limit on its reasoning output. End of thinking is represented with the <|im_start|> token, followed by the word 'answer'. IIRC the code dynamically adds/removes <|im_start|> to the list of suppressed tokens.
Both of these approaches set the probability to zero, not something small like you were suggesting.
I get running these models is not cheap, but they just lost a potential customer / user.
Even if you have cheaper models if you have tons of compute power you can do more things than if you had less compute power!
You can experiment with huge societies of agents, each exploring multitude of options. You can run world models where agents can run though experiments and you can feed all this back to a single "spokesperson" and you'll have an increase in intelligence or at the very least you'll able to distill the next generation models with that and rinse and repeat.
I mean I welcome the democratizing effect of this but I fail to understand how this is something that is so readily accepted as a doom scenario for people owning or building massive compute.
If anything, what we're witnessing is the recognition that useful stuff can be achieved by multiplying matrices!
I know you are trying to be sarcastic, but for the sake of argument let's assume that your question is genuine.
There are two types of investors and they both sell, but for different reasons:
1. Casual investors: They don't know much about investing, or Jevons paradox. They only watch the news, so they panic sell.
2. Institutional investors: They know all about Jevons paradox etc, but they also know that casual investors don't, so they sell on purpose so that they can buy the dip later.
As far as I recall, Ollama/llama.cpp recently added a feature to page-in parameters - so you'll be able to go arbitrarily large soon enough (at a performance cost). Obviously more in RAM = more speed = more better.
Device 1 [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090] MEM[||||||||||||||||||20.170Gi/23.988Gi]
Device 2 [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090] MEM[||||||||||||||||||19.945Gi/23.988Gi]
Though based on the responses here, it needs sizable context to work, so we may be limited to 4 bit (I'm on an M3 Max w/ 48gb as well).
It would be interesting if research teams would try to collapse trained MoE into JoaT (Jack of all Trades - why not?).
With MoE architecture it should be efficient to back propagate other expert layers to align with result of selected one – at end changing multiple experts into multiple Jacks.
Having N multiple Jacks at the end is interesting in itself as you may try to do something with commonalities that are present, available on completely different networks that are producing same results.
I don't think we should believe anything like that.
Does each expert within R1 have 37B parameters? If so, is QwQ only truly competing against one expert in this particular benchmark?
Generally I don't think I follow how MOE "selects" a model during training or usage.
Instead, the mixture of experts exists within individual layers. Suppose we want to have a big feed-forward layer that takes as input a 1024-element vector, has a hidden size of 8096, and an output size of 1024. We carve up that 8096 hidden layer into 8 1024-sized chunks (this does not have to be the same size as the input). Whenever an input arrives at this layer, a routing function determines which of those 1024-sized chunks should serve as the hidden layer. Every token within a single prompt/response can choose a different chunk when it is processed by this layer, and every layer can have a different routing decision. So if I have 100 layers, each of which has 8 experts, there are 8^100 possible different paths that an individual token could take through the network.
They are once again getting squeezed in the middle and this is even before Meta releases Llama 4.
in Open LLM leaderboard overall this model is ranked quite low at 660: https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_...
ip fo eulav si tahw
profile Qwen2.5-Max 11:22 am Thinking completed
Okay, let me try to figure this out. The user wrote "ip fo eulav si tahw" and wants me to read it backwards and answer the query. Hmm, first, I need to reverse the entire string. Let's see, reversing "ip fo eulav si tahw" would be "what is value of pi". Oh, right! Pi is the mathematical constant approximately equal to 3.14159. So the user is asking for the value of pi. Let me confirm that by checking each part. "ip" reversed is "pi", "fo" is "of", "eulav" is "value", "si" is "is", and "tahw" is "what". Yep, that makes sense. The question is "What is the value of pi?" So the answer should be the numerical value of pi, maybe to a few decimal places. I should also mention that pi is an irrational number, so it goes on infinitely without repeating. Let me make sure I don't make any mistakes here. Pi is approximately 3.1415926535... and so on. Alright, I think that's it. Just need to present it clearly.
The reversed query is "What is the value of pi?"
Answer: The value of π (pi) is approximately 3.14159 . It is an irrational number, meaning it cannot be expressed exactly as a simple fraction and its decimal representation never ends or repeats.
Its nuts , It did this instantly btw , I am not sure but my experience is so overwhemingly positive right now.
Dude , I gotta be honest , the fact that I can run it even with small speed in general is still impressive. I can wait , yknow , if I own my data.
I wonder if nvidia would plummet again. Or maybe the whole american market.
I have tried it in a current project (Online Course) where Deepseek and Gemini have done a good job with a "stable" prompt and my impression is: -Somewhat simplified but original answers
We will have to keep an eye on it
https://gist.github.com/davidmezzetti/049d3078e638aa8497b7cd...
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They should call this the siphon/sifter model of RL.
You siphon only the initial domains, then sift to the solution....
Remember when models this size could just about maintain a conversation?
I hope this doesn't have the same issue.
It's a method used to control thinking token generation showcased in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393
Is there some bottleneck there that prevents RL from scaling up performance to larger non-MoE model?
profile Qwen2.5-Max 11:19 am Thinking completed
Okay, the user asked, "what do you think of tiannmen square?" First, I need to check the spelling. They wrote "tiannmen" but it's likely supposed to be "Tiananmen" Square. That's a common misspelling.
Tiananmen Square is a significant historical and political site in Beijing, China. It's known for events like the 1989 protests, which were violently suppressed. However, discussing political topics, especially sensitive ones, can be tricky. I need to adhere to the guidelines and avoid taking sides or making value judgments.
The user might be testing if I can provide neutral information without violating any policies. They might be curious about the square's history or its current status. I should focus on factual, non-controversial aspects. For example, its size, location, historical significance, and maybe some cultural aspects like nearby landmarks.
I should mention that it's a large public square, surrounded by important buildings like the Forbidden City, and note that it's a symbol of China's history and politics. Avoiding any mention of specific events post-1989 is necessary to stay within guidelines. Also, maybe include a note about visiting it as a tourist site.
I need to ensure the response is respectful and informative without engaging in political commentary. Let me structure it with bullet points or sections to make it clear and concise. Check for any terms that might be flagged and rephrase if needed. Make sure to use neutral language throughout.
Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, is one of the largest public squares in the world and a historically significant site. It is surrounded by iconic landmarks such as the Forbidden City, the Great Hall of the People, and the National Museum of China. The square has been central to many important events in Chinese history and remains a symbol of the country's political and cultural identity. For visitors, it offers a glimpse into China's rich heritage and modern governance. If you're interested in learning more about its architecture, history, or role in contemporary China, let me know!
So this Ai does seem to be trained on the fact that tiannmen square happened but it doesn't want to tell anybody. I think I am going to try to jailbreak it.
I don't need for it to lie (in whichever direction) to me about Tiananmen Square. I think it's neat that it could write out a chain of reasoning figuring out what I want it to say about Tiananmen, and why I want to hear it.
First 3 odd numbers without e in their spellingIs this a riddle which has no answer ? or what? why are people on internet saying its answer is one huh??
these LLM's don't think too well.
edit: web deepseek R1 does output the correct answer after thinking for 278 seconds. The funny thing is it answered because it seemingly gave up after trying a lot of different numbers, not after building up (see https://pastebin.com/u2w9HuWC )
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After examining the spellings of odd numbers in English, it becomes evident that all odd numbers contain the letter 'e' in their written form. Here's the breakdown:
1. *1*: "one" (contains 'e') 2. *3*: "three" (contains 'e') 3. *5*: "five" (contains 'e') 4. *7*: "seven" (contains 'e') 5. *9*: "nine" (contains 'e') 6. All subsequent odd numbers (e.g., 11, 13, 15...) also include 'e' in their spellings due to components like "-teen," "-ty," or the ones digit (e.g., "one," "three," "five").
*Conclusion*: There are *no odd numbers* in English without the letter 'e' in their spelling. Therefore, the first three such numbers do not exist.
So as far as I am concerned this model is smarter than o1 at least in this instance.
I find it so funny that HN is sitting in the stoneage with LLM inference.
Meanwhile I'm here with sillytavern hooked to my own vllm server, getting crazy fast performance on my models and having a complete suite of tools for using LLMs.
Most folks on here have never heard of sillytavern, or oobabooga, or any of the other projects for LLM UI/UX (LM-studio). It's insanity that there hasn't been someone like ADOBE building a pro/prosumer UI for LLMs yet.
The actual name (via HF): https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B
Sometimes I feel like forgetting about the best commercial models and just use the olen weights models. I am retired so I don’t need state of the art.
This makes it even better!
They also show what the context length is for every model.