Base vs. Instruct

Model

Same Request for Both Models

Temperature 0.7

Lower concentrates the choices; higher spreads them out. It does not set factual accuracy.

Tokens per Run

Runs on This Mac

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Ready

Qwen3.5-9B Base

Raw text completion

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Qwen3.5-9B · Instruct

Chat template · Thinking off

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Keep the request, temperature and token limit fixed. Select each model and generate once.

Notice

Which response addresses the request more directly? This released model includes further post-training; the comparison does not isolate Stage II alone.