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Thinking mode

Architectures

Feature introduced in Qwen3 where the model can generate a long intermediate reasoning step before producing the final answer. It improves quality on logic, math and planning problems, at the cost of more tokens (and therefore more time and memory) per answer. It can be switched on or off, and in Qwen3 the model also decides for itself whether to reason.

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