Swift Qwen3.8 27b
Swift Qwen3.8 27b is a fine-tuned derivative of Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, released by ukisai under the swift-open-license-1.0. It is an image-text-to-text model with safetensors weights and reasoning tags. According to its official model card, it is described as a reasoning-efficient variant that uses 58.3% fewer thinking tokens while maintaining near-identical performance (<1% loss) and achieving a x1.95 speed-up on several tasks. The training approach involved identifying reasoning-marker tokens that appear to trigger overthinking in Qwen's reasoning rollouts, then fine-tuning by penalizing those tokens while reasoning. It also includes a transfer component derived from BottleCap AI's ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B. Evaluation results are stated to compare the Qwen3.8-27B BF16 base with the same base plus the Swift adapter.
At a glance
- Parameters
- 27.78B
- Architecture
- qwen3_5
- License
- swift-open-license-1.0
- Disk space
- 51.7 GB
- Software
- SGLang, vLLM
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- Image-text-to-text tasks where shorter reasoning traces are desired.
- Reasoning tasks where fewer thinking tokens may reduce computational cost.
- Scenarios requiring a fine-tuned variant of Qwen3.8-27B with token-efficient reasoning.
- Applications where the model card's reported x1.95 speed-up on several tasks is relevant.
- Research or experimentation with reasoning-efficient derivatives of Qwen3.8-27B.
Tradeoffs
- The model is gated; access is controlled.
- It uses a custom license (swift-open-license-1.0), which may have specific terms.
- The official model card claims evaluation only against the Qwen3.8-27B BF16 base with the Swift adapter; no broader independent testing is provided.
- The reported performance metrics (<1% loss, x1.95 speed-up) are from the model card's stated testing and have not been independently verified here.
- No specific hardware requirements, compatibility details, or purchase recommendations are provided or inferred.
Ways to run it
SGLang · Linux
Repository-specific command in publisher documentation; confirm dependencies and hardware in the source.
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path ukisai/Swift-Qwen3.8-27b --dtype bfloat16 --tp-size 1 --context-length 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --port 8000vLLM · Linux
Repository-specific command in publisher documentation; confirm dependencies and hardware in the source.
vllm serve ukisai/Swift-Qwen3.8-27b --dtype bfloat16 --tensor-parallel-size 1 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --port 8000Explore its uses
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