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Re: Qwen3-Next

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Seems impressive, i believe better architectures are really the path forward, i don't think you need more than 100B params taking this model and what GPT OSS 120B can acchieve

Re: Qwen3-Next

#5
Coolest part of Qwen3-Next, in my opinion, (after the linear attention parts) is that they do MTP without adding another un-embedding matrix.

Deepseek R1 also has a MTP layer (layer 61) https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/mod...

But Deepseek R1 adds embed_tokens and shared_head.head tensors, which are [129280, 7168] or about 2GB in size at FP8.

Qwen3-Next doesn't have that: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct/blob...

So it saves a few GB in active parameters for MTP, which is a Big Deal. This is one of the changes that helps significantly speeds up inference.

Re: Qwen3-Next

#6
post #2

Seems impressive, i believe better architectures are really the path forward, i don't think you need more than 100B params taking this model and what GPT OSS 120B can acchieve

New arch seems cool, and it's amazing that we have these published in the open.

That being said, qwen models are extremely overfit. They can do some things well, but they are very limited in generalisation, compared to closed models. I don't know if it's simply scale, or training recipes, or regimes. But if you test it ood the models utterly fail to deliver, where the closed models still provide value.

Re: Qwen3-Next

#8
post #2

Seems impressive, i believe better architectures are really the path forward, i don't think you need more than 100B params taking this model and what GPT OSS 120B can acchieve

New arch seems cool, and it's amazing that we have these published in the open. That being said, qwen models are extremely overfit. They can do some things well, but they are very limited in generalisation, compared to closed models. I don't know if it's simply scale, or training recipes, or regimes. But if you test it ood the models utterly fail to deliver, where the closed models still provide value.

Could you give some practical examples? I don't know what Qwen's 36T-token training set is like, so I don't know what it's overfitting to...

Re: Qwen3-Next

#9

Complete newbie here - some questions, if I may! This stuff can run on a local machine without internet access, correct? And it can pretty much match Nano Banana? https://github.com/PicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images/blob/... Also -- what are the specs for a machine to run it (even if slowly!)

Isn't this one a text model

Re: Qwen3-Next

#10

Complete newbie here - some questions, if I may! This stuff can run on a local machine without internet access, correct? And it can pretty much match Nano Banana? https://github.com/PicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images/blob/... Also -- what are the specs for a machine to run it (even if slowly!)

Isn't this one a text model

Ah, maybe! I am lost reading this page with all the terminology
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