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Qwen 3.5 template tweak stops needless prompt reprocessing
A LocalLLaMA guide shows that in non-thinking/instruct mode, Qwen 3.5 can trigger full prompt reprocessing because empty `<think>` tags get altered across turns. The proposed Jinja fix preserves empty think blocks while still stripping real reasoning content, reducing avoidable reparse behavior in llama.cpp sessions.
// ANALYSIS
This is a practical community-level patch for a real latency pain point, even if it is not an upstream architectural fix.
- –The root cause is template-level prompt mutation, not just model size or hardware limits.
- –The workaround is narrowly scoped to thinking-disabled flows, so it avoids changing normal reasoning-mode behavior.
- –Keeping empty think tags is a low-context-cost tradeoff compared with repeatedly invalidating cache reuse.
- –The author reports good coding-session behavior but no long-context benchmarks yet, so production users should validate on their own workloads.
// TAGS
qwen-3-5llminferenceopen-sourceprompt-engineering
DISCOVERED
29d ago
2026-03-14
PUBLISHED
29d ago
2026-03-13
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
guiopen