---
license: apache-2.0
base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B
tags: [diabetes, medical, healthcare, diabetic-lifestyle, edge-ai, jetson, sovereign]
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

# DiabeticDaily-4B 🐝🛏️

**The edge tier of the OpenDiabetic ladder — runs on a $249 Jetson Orin Nano, on-box, zero internet.**
A proven, domain-tuned diabetic assistant small enough to sit on a nightstand. Cooked by **Swarm and Bee LLC**.

## Beat-base — proven
Held-out perplexity vs base Qwen3.5-4B (text never trained on):

| | held-out loss | perplexity |
|---|---|---|
| Base Qwen3.5-4B | 1.5062 | 4.510 |
| **DiabeticDaily-4B** | **0.8982** | **2.455** |
| **Δ** | **−0.608 (+40.4% better)** | |

**Verdict: BEAT BASE ✅.** A 4B that models diabetic/medical language ~40% better than base — and at Q4 it's
~2.6GB, running at usable speed on a Jetson with **PHI never leaving the box.**

## How it was cooked
- **Base:** Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B (Apache-2.0). **Data:** the same deeded OpenDiabetic corpus as the 27B/9B.
- **Recipe:** LoRA r32/α16 on attn+mlp, LR 2e-5 (small-model tier), 0.7ep, early-stop. Merged bf16.

## Run it on a Jetson (Q4 GGUF, ollama) — see the `-GGUF` companion repo
```bash
ollama create diabetic-daily -f Modelfile   # FROM diabeticedge-4b-q4_k_m.gguf
ollama run diabetic-daily "What's a good diabetic breakfast?"
```
This is the brain behind the **LocalDiabetic edge node** — sovereign, private, free.

## The ladder: 🐝 27B anchor (+57%) → 🏠 9B home (+40.7%) → **🛏️ 4B edge (+40.4%)**

## ⚠️ Not medical advice — diabetic lifestyle/education/organization only. Not a diagnosis. Emergencies → 911.

© 2026 **Swarm and Bee LLC** · [opendiabetic.com](https://opendiabetic.com) · Apache-2.0 · *We slow cook the truth.* 🐝