alt Hacker NewsAre there benchmarks for the various Qwen3.8-27B quants that actually measure writing code, maybe even with multiple steps? Low KL divergence does not mean much when the model gets stuck in doom loops all the time.
I could of course download and test myself, but that would take days with my internet connection.
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We made something called Divergence-300 @32 (and later @512) which tests actual inference across 32 tokens on a held out test (Terminal Bench, DeepSWE, Math etc)
We do plan to do larger benchmark suites though!
Purely an anecdote, but I've found Qwen3.8-27b doesn't doom loop like previous Qwen models would. With that said, it absolutely thinks in circles- it'll prepare to do something, say it is now ready to do it, then follow that with three paragraphs that all start with Acutally... Oh wait, I should check first... Hmm, hmm... I should stop guessing and just do it. Okay, I'm ready to do the thing now... Actually, wait...
It takes forever, but it does actually get around to making things work, and it is more thorough and produces better code than previous qwen models. You just need to let it run quite awhile.
I tested Qwen 3.8 on the Blade CTF last night, it took 3 hours but got the correct answer.
I know that didn’t answer your question but I was looking for a test suite and couldn’t find anything.
After reading the logs, there is far less doom looping than with 3.6, but whether that’s a one off or not is up for debate.
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