I have recently worked on a personal project called progressive thinking, which enables LLMs to generate chains of thought in a progressive pattern. In addition, the model learned to generate COT before choosing the appropriate tools, making it useful for complex and deeper agentic tasks. This model is well trained on QWEN3-14B using the SFT algorithm and needs GRPO to make feasible outputs. alibidaran/qwen_progressive_thinking_16bit OpenDataArena/Spark-234K IFM/TxT360-3efforts
We're going to take some models, do a bit of continued training on them and QAT them for only a 2 bit KV cache. And because of what happened with BGA, and this is also kind of some research stuff, here's what we're going to change: We're going to always, before we release how and make any claims, release our results. We also would like (idk if we can) to have some external reviewers before releasing them, I'M talking to YOU @AtAndDev and @mithulaartigala And we're going to properly cite other research.
The models we are going to release is: KV1 1.2B, based on LFM 2.5 1.2B Instruct KV1 2.6B, based on LFM 2.5 2.6B Instruct KV1 4B, based on Qwen3.5 4B.
If we get enough compute, we may also train: KV1 9B
And if you guys want to a ~27B model, you guys decide which, either on LFM 2.5 24B A2B, Qwen3.8 27B, or Qwen3.6 35B A3B.
Our goal is to get 2 bit, at 4 bit quality.
Here's an image of our current progress, KV1 is at 3 bit, not 4 bit, but it will improve!