I’m most excited about Qwen-30B-A3B. Seems like a good choice for offline/local-only coding assistants. Until now I found that open weight models were either not as good as their proprietary counterparts or too slow to run locally. This looks like a good balance.
Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
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Re: Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
#42Something that interests me about the Qwen and DeepSeek models is that they have presumably been trained to fit the worldview enforced by the CCP, for things like avoiding talking about Tiananmen Square - but we've had access to a range of Qwen/DeepSeek models for well over a year at this point and to my knowledge this assumed bias hasn't actually resulted in any documented problems from people using the models. Asid…
Re: Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
#43"Write a Golang program that merges huge presorted text files, just like sort -m does". Quite often models need "use heap" as guidance, but this time big model figured it out by itself.
Re: Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
#44Something that interests me about the Qwen and DeepSeek models is that they have presumably been trained to fit the worldview enforced by the CCP, for things like avoiding talking about Tiananmen Square - but we've had access to a range of Qwen/DeepSeek models for well over a year at this point and to my knowledge this assumed bias hasn't actually resulted in any documented problems from people using the models. Asid…
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#45With all the different open-weight models appearing, is there some way of figuring out what model would work with sensible speed (> X tok/s) on a standard desktop GPU ? I.e. I have Quadro RTX 4000 with 8G vram and seeing all the models https://ollama.com/search here with all the different sizes, I am absolutely at loss which models with which sizes would be fast enough. I.e. there is no point of me downloading the la…
Re: Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
#46Something that interests me about the Qwen and DeepSeek models is that they have presumably been trained to fit the worldview enforced by the CCP, for things like avoiding talking about Tiananmen Square - but we've had access to a range of Qwen/DeepSeek models for well over a year at this point and to my knowledge this assumed bias hasn't actually resulted in any documented problems from people using the models. Asid…
With other LLMs, there's more friction to testing it out and therefore less scrutiny.
Re: Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
#47With all the different open-weight models appearing, is there some way of figuring out what model would work with sensible speed (> X tok/s) on a standard desktop GPU ? I.e. I have Quadro RTX 4000 with 8G vram and seeing all the models https://ollama.com/search here with all the different sizes, I am absolutely at loss which models with which sizes would be fast enough. I.e. there is no point of me downloading the la…
Re: Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
#48With all the different open-weight models appearing, is there some way of figuring out what model would work with sensible speed (> X tok/s) on a standard desktop GPU ? I.e. I have Quadro RTX 4000 with 8G vram and seeing all the models https://ollama.com/search here with all the different sizes, I am absolutely at loss which models with which sizes would be fast enough. I.e. there is no point of me downloading the la…
A basic thing to remember: Any given dense model would require X GB of memory at 8-bit quantization, where X is the number of params (of course I am simplifying a little by not counting context size). Quantization is just 'precision' of the model, 8-bit generally works really well. Generally speaking, it's not worth even bothering with models that have more param size than your hardware's VRAM. Some people try to get around it by using 4-bit quant, trading some precision for half VRAM size. YMMV depending on use-case
Re: Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
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#50I’m most excited about Qwen-30B-A3B. Seems like a good choice for offline/local-only coding assistants. Until now I found that open weight models were either not as good as their proprietary counterparts or too slow to run locally. This looks like a good balance.
Could this variant be run on a CPU?