Qwen 3.8 release adds prompt-steered reasoning effort; fix discusses issues with Jinja chat template, including inability to disable thinking and blank think tags
Read the original at old.reddit.com→Qwen just released their first 3.8 model. The main addition in 3.8 is prompt-steered reasoning effort. You can tell the model how deeply to think by setting reasoning_effort to xhigh, medium, or low. However, the...
Original headline: "Fixed Jinja chat template for Qwen 3.5, 3.6, and the new 3.8 release"
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- Aug 13, 20:22 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Fixed Jinja chat template for Qwen 3.5, 3.6, and the new 3.8 release