README.md

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license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
- unsloth
datasets:
- constructai/Granite-v4.1-Distilled-15K
---

# 💥 Qwenite3.5-0.8B

**📄 Overview**

| | |
|---|---|
| **Model Name** | constructai/Qwenite3.5-0.8B |
| **Base Model** | Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base |
| **Dataset** | constructai/Granite-v4.1-Distilled-15K |
| **Training Type** | Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) |
| **Parameters** | 0.9B |
| **Framework** | Unsloth + LoRA |
| **Hardware** | NVIDIA T4 16GB |

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**🎯 Intended Use**

This model is designed for **step‑by‑step reasoning tasks** where the answer requires logical decomposition before the final response. It is optimized for:

- **Educational applications** — explaining "why" and "how" questions
- **On‑device assistants** — runs on mobile, Raspberry Pi, or CPU‑only environments
- **Fast prototyping** — small footprint (0.9B parameters), low latency
- **Reasoning distillation research** — studying how small models learn from large ones (Granite → Qwen)

**Not recommended for:** multimodal tasks, non‑reasoning chat (e.g., creative writing), or production systems requiring 100% factual accuracy.

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**⚠️ Limitations & Intended Use**

Intended Use:

* Educational & Reasoning tasks — explaining step‑by‑step logic (math, science, common sense)

* On‑device assistants — runs on CPU, Raspberry Pi, mobile (small footprint, fast inference)

* Research baseline — for studying SFT‑only reasoning without RLHF/DPO

* Distillation experiments — testing how well small models learn from large (Granite → Qwen)

Limitations:

* Size matters — 0.9B parameters, so complex or multi‑hop reasoning may still fail

* No multimodal — text only; images, video, audio are not supported

* Factual accuracy — may hallucinate or give incorrect answers; always verify critical outputs

* Domain restricted — trained on **15,000** reasoning examples (2.5 epochs); general chat or creative writing may be suboptimal

* Training data bias — inherits biases from `constructai/Granite-v4.1-Distilled-15K` dataset; not safety‑filtered for harmful content

* Hardware specific — optimised for T4/consumer GPUs; very slow on CPU without quantisation

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# Train details

This experiment went **surprisingly well**, and the small `Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base` model performed an **excellent job**, showing **decent results**. Thanks to the correctly selected **LoRA** hyperparameters (r=32, alpha=64) and the use of a high-quality synthetic dataset `Granite-v4.1-Distilled-15K`, the loss was lowered below **0.8**, and the model consistently gives **correct answers** on validation examples (as in the task about monkeys on branches). You can try out `Qwenite3.5-0.8B` using this code:
```python

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model_id = "constructai/Qwenite3.5-0.8B"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16, device_map="auto")

def ask(question):
    prompt = f"<|im_start|>user\n{question}\nAnswer concisely:<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n"
    inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
    outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=1024, temperature=0.1, do_sample=True)
    answer = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)
    return answer

test_questions = [
    "On one branch there are 2 monkeys. On two such branches there are 4 monkeys. Now answer: How many on 3 branches?",
]

for q in test_questions:
    print(f"Q: {q}")
    print(f"A: {ask(q)}\n{'-'*50}")
```

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**🙏 Acknowledgements**

This project would not have been possible without the open‑source community and the following resources:

* [Qwen Team](https://huggingface.co/Qwen) (Alibaba Cloud) — for releasing the Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base model under Apache 2.0, a perfect balance of size and intelligence.

* [Unsloth AI](https://huggingface.co/unsloth) — for making fine‑tuning on consumer hardware fast and memory‑efficient.

* [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/) — for the ecosystem (transformers, datasets, PEFT, Hub) that democratises LLM training.

* [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com) — for providing free T4 GPU runtime to run this experiment.

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**📖 Citation**

```bibtex
@misc{Qwenite3.5-0.8B,
  author = {constructai},
  title = {Qwenite3.5-0.8B: Small Reasoning Model via SFT on Granite Traces},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {https://huggingface.co/constructai/Qwenite3.5-0.8B},
}
```