AnalysisOpinion / analysisEfficiency & Inference1 source · Oct 17, 2026

if you're on Strata before 0.1.45 and your client doesn't set sampling, you're running greedy

Two things I ran into while moving my Strata setup from IQ2XS to Unsloth's UD-IQ4XS (RTX 4090, i9-14900K, 64GB DDR5-5800, Arch).

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Key points

  • Before Strata 0.1.45, a run config without a sampling block decoded greedy whenever the request didn't set its own temperature.
  • Greedy is what makes these models loop.
  • A request with no sampling now gets the model card's values:
  • "sampling": {"temperature": 1.0, "topp": 0.95, "topk": 20}

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Before this

  1. Oct 17, 202632GB to 64GB of RAM took Qwen3.8-Flash-Next from IQ2_XS (2-bit) to Unsloth UD-IQ4_XS (4-bit) on a single 4090
  2. Oct 17, 2026Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, Muse Spark Open, and a Fast LFM2.5 24B
  3. Oct 16, 2026Improved Qwen3.8-Flash Chat Template (w/ Sharp Template terse option)
  4. Oct 16, 2026Qwen Flash Next potential SOTA Q2 nobody talks about
  5. Oct 15, 2026capy-flash: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE) in full NVFP4 on two 16 GB consumer GPUs
  6. Oct 15, 2026Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio

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