Maple-Preview or LFM2.5-2.6B Sharps?

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by warlocksyno - opened

Hey! Amazing work! I've been using Dirk and Tiel for all my deployments, they've been fantastic. Dirk has been great on the dual GPU systems, Tiel for single GPU and MoE offloaded ones. MiniCPM5 and Spark might be the answer for >8GB systems, or even CPU. But in my testing LFM2.5, Ling Tiny, and Maple have been the fastest on CPU and iGPU, but both LFM and Maple never actually output their answers in any given budget, even though within the first 3-4% of their thinking block the answer is in there. Would it be possible to give one of those the Sharp treatment? Ling does better, but still not great.

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Hey there, thanks for the request and the warm praise!:)

What do you think is the right use cases for these models (Maple, LFM and Ling respecitvely)? Chat assistants? Knowledge retrieval? Agentic tool call? Because when I dynamically quantize stuff the calibration corpus makes a difference, so if it's not for coding then I'd just put a bunch of tool calling, reasoning and other stuff relevant to the use case in there.

Personally I only use LLMs for agentic coding and related tasks, so I'd rather hear what the use case for these models are from someone who uses these than assume what it's for.

In these cases it's for RAG retrieval and chat. Trying to build a harness for myself to quickly get accurate information from automotive repair manuals. For instance, asking a bot "what are the torque specs for a 2004 Jeep Wrangler 2.4L headbolts", the harness should try to get the information without an agentic model, but if it can't it forwards it to a model to grab. E2B has been great for that, but trash at anything else. Like if you asked it to "generate a invoice for shop order #243" or whatever, it falls on it's face. So a mixture of accurate information retrieval and tool use. What's annoying is pretty much all 3 of the models mentioned do have the answer, it's just they spend the other 97% of the thought cap spiraling lol.

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