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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by dist-epoch on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:18PM (#47795658)
What do you think about creating a tool which can just patch the template embedded in the .gguf file instead of forcing a re-download? The whole file hash can be checked afterwards.
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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by danielhanchen on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:58PM (#47796262)
Sadly it's not always chat template fixes :( But yes we now split the first shard as pure metadata (10MB) for huge models - these include the chat template etc - so you only need to download that.

For serious fixes, sadly we have to re-compute imatrix since the activation patterns have changed - this sadly makes the entire quant change a lot, hence you have to re-download :(

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