Community debates fine-tuning on Fable reasoning traces
A Reddit user is fine-tuning Qwen 3.6 35B on reasoning traces from Anthropic's Fable model, reporting +5% on HumanEval and SWE-bench. Others criticize the approach, arguing that Fable's public traces are summarized and differ from its internal chain-of-thought, potentially degrading performance.
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