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Qwen 3 4B Base model sees 31% boost on MATH-500 after puzzle fine-tuning

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A fine-tuned version of the Qwen 3 4B Base model demonstrated a 31% improvement on the MATH-500 benchmark after being trained on 100 zebra puzzles. The process for reproducing this result, which took approximately 6.5 minutes on a single NVIDIA H100 or H200 GPU, has been made available. This suggests that specialized fine-tuning can significantly enhance a model's performance on specific reasoning tasks. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates the potential for targeted fine-tuning to significantly boost LLM performance on specific reasoning tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster reports on a specific fine-tuning result and benchmark improvement for an existing model, along with a reproduction notebook. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Qwen 3 4B Base model sees 31% boost on MATH-500 after puzzle fine-tuning

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/TGSCrust ·

    Fine-tuning Qwen 3 4B Base on 100 zebra puzzles yielded +31% on MATH-500. 6.5-min (Single H100/H200) reproduction notebook included.

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wdhb24/finetuning_qwen_3_4b_base_on_100_zebra_puzzles/"> <img alt="Fine-tuning Qwen 3 4B Base on 100 zebra puzzles yielded +31% on MATH-500. 6.5-min (Single H100/H200) reproduction notebook included." src="ht…

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