The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself
Last week, I wanted a small version of the prompt rewriter that ships with Qwen-Image 2.1.
ProofVendor claim only
Key points
- The official one is a 9B model that needs about 20 GB of memory and thinks for thousands of tokens before writing a single paragraph.
- On the Hub, I found only compressed copies of that same 9B model.
- So I described what I wanted to ML Intern, and the next day I had a 0.8B version that runs on a CPU.
- Without it you get a trained model and no idea whether it is better than what you started with.
Sources (1)
- [1]The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourselfHugging Face Blog · Oct 8, 12:00 AM
Last week, I wanted a small version of the prompt rewriter that ships with Qwen-Image 2.1.
The official one is a 9B model that needs about 20 GB of memory and thinks for thousands of tokens before writing a single paragraph.
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Hype check
Independently evaluated2 independent looks since
- Evaluation · Oct 8, 2026Closed-loop evaluation of LLM agents for embedded software development
- Evaluation · Oct 8, 2026Beyond Resolution: Object-to-Image Ratio Mismatch in Instance Retrieval
- Follow-up · Oct 8, 2026Mid-Training Language Models on Raw Video
- Follow-up · Oct 8, 2026ConwayResearch/Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0
- Follow-up · Oct 8, 2026Dynamics as Code: On Model Compression via Dynamic System
- Follow-up · Oct 8, 2026Balancing Reference Guidance and Free Generation in Trajectory Rollouts for Reasoning RL
Before this
- Oct 7, 2026unslothai/unsloth v0.1.904-beta: Train your own Decision model
- Oct 7, 2026Introducing Falcon ASR
- Oct 6, 2026unslothai/unsloth v0.1.903-beta: New Browser + Voice Cloning
- Oct 6, 2026huggingface/transformers v5.19.0: Release v5.19.0
- Oct 6, 2026FinVector-Market-4B: A Controlled Study of LoRA Adaptation for Structured Financial Tasks
- Oct 6, 2026huggingface/diffusers v0.41.0: Diffusers 0.41.0: QwenImage 2.1 pipeline and more
