Improved Qwen3.8-Flash Chat Template (w/ Sharp Template terse option)
I've been maintaining my own chat template for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next since it released, and after a discussion in another thread I decided to share it.
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Key points
- I made a repo with my v1.4 template, the original Unsloth fixed stock template, and now a "Sharp" terseness mode version (based on /u/peculiar-ragdoll's original).
- Normal thinking-on history renders byte-for-byte what Unsloth's template renders, so the KV cache is reused and nothing changes when things are going well.
- Terseness is a terse chat-template kwarg, on by default; {"terse": false} renders the v1.4 template normally, so you can A/B it on one server with no reload.
- Note: I personally leave the terseness setting off, as I found it does reduce accuracy somewhat, and just use a medium effort or switch to Swift-1.5-Flash-Next if I need a quicker response.
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- [1]Improved Qwen3.8-Flash Chat Template (w/ Sharp Template terse option)r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 16, 08:15 PM
I've been maintaining my own chat template for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next since it released, and after a discussion in another thread I decided to share it.
I made a repo with my v1.4 template, the original Unsloth fixed stock template, and now a "Sharp" terseness mode version (based on /u/peculiar-ragdoll's original).
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