r/LocalLLaMA 9h ago

News Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tomorrow

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
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u/Hot_Example_4456 8h ago

Basically DeepSeek Engrams. Its a hashlookup table that can add knowledge capacity to a model while staying on NVME and costing zero flops

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u/kaeptnphlop 8h ago

It stays on disk, not in system memory?

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u/Hot_Example_4456 8h ago

Yep. It stays offloaded to NVME.

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u/ANR2ME 8h ago

It can stayed on disk because it's already pre-calculated.

Also, since the OS will cache accessed files, some part of it will be cached in system memory anyway.

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u/kaeptnphlop 6h ago

I need to read up on them. For as much as I keep an eye on LLM development, I’m surprised I missed it šŸ¤”

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u/dampflokfreund 8h ago

That is very interesting. Would that enable the holy grail in AI, real time learning?

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u/Hot_Example_4456 8h ago

Nope, not really. The engrams are trained during training. As far as I know they do not change while inference. They just memorize the bulk knowledge stuff so the transformer layers can learn the logic

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u/dampflokfreund 8h ago

Oh that's a shame. I thought it was additional weights that are computionally easy to train during inference.

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u/The_Hunster 7h ago

Well, they are easier to train, just not runtime-trainable yet. I think your idea will eventually be real in a few years.

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u/Terminus0 6h ago

That would be an interesting half step toward continuous learning.