---
license: apache-2.0
base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
tags: [diabetes, medical, healthcare, diabetic-lifestyle, edge-ai, sovereign]
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

# DiabeticDaily-9B 🐝🏠

**The home-box tier of the OpenDiabetic ladder** — distilled-class diabetic intelligence sized to run on a
home appliance (NAS + a low-power GPU like the RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell, ~70W). Cooked by **Swarm and Bee LLC**.

## Beat-base — proven
Held-out perplexity vs base Qwen3.5-9B (text never trained on):

| | held-out loss | perplexity |
|---|---|---|
| Base Qwen3.5-9B | 1.3625 | 3.906 |
| **DiabeticDaily-9B** | **0.8079** | **2.243** |
| **Δ** | **−0.555 (+40.7% better)** | |

**Verdict: BEAT BASE ✅.** Models the domain ~41% better than base — and its perplexity (2.24) is nearly the
27B anchor's (2.05): **the knowledge survives the shrink.** That's the distillation-ladder thesis, proven.

## How it was cooked
- **Base:** Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B (Apache-2.0). **Data:** the same deeded OpenDiabetic corpus as the 27B anchor.
- **Recipe:** LoRA r64/α32 on attn+mlp, LR 1e-5, cosine, early-stop overcook guard. Merged bf16.

## The ladder: 🐝 27B anchor (+57%) → **🏠 9B home (+40.7%)** → 🛏️ 4B edge (+40.4%)

## ⚠️ Not medical advice — diabetic lifestyle/education/organization only. Not a diagnosis. Emergencies → 911.

© 2026 **Swarm and Bee LLC** · [opendiabetic.com](https://opendiabetic.com) · Apache-2.0 · *We slow cook the truth.* 🐝