qwen3.5-4b-sft-flint-section-v2

qwen3.5-4b-sft-flint-section-v2

sft-flint-section-v2 arm of the caveman reasoning-compression ablation study: Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B fine-tuned (LoRA adapter) on flint/data/flint-section-aware.jsonl (552 rows, 2 epochs, LoRA r=64).

The study asks whether compressed ("caveman") reasoning traces can train a model to reason in fewer tokens without losing accuracy — and which parts of a trace are compressible. See the run manifest below for the exact recipe; eval results live in the study's report.

Eval summary (t=0, max_tokens 8192)

Accuracy (avg reasoning tokens, loop rate) — this arm vs the original model it was fine-tuned from (Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B), same harness and prompts.

Run manifest

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