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ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B: same accuracy as base Qwen3.6 with ~50% fewer thinking
We rigorously evaluate the resulting checkpoint across general reasoning, non-reasoning multiple-choice question answering, everyday multi-turn conversations, system prompt adherence, safety, math, code and agentic use cases. Due to the high variability of reasoning quality at Qwen-recommended sampling temperature 1.0,