Instructions to use lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled

SGLang

How to use lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Unsloth Studio

How to use lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled with Unsloth Studio:

Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled to start chatting

Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)

irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled to start chatting

Load model with FastModel

pip install unsloth
from unsloth import FastModel
model, tokenizer = FastModel.from_pretrained(
    model_name="lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled",
    max_seq_length=2048,
)

Docker Model Runner
How to use lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Kimi-K2.6-Reasoning-Distilled
```

lordx64 commited on Apr 27

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Eval: head-to-head table vs base — GSM8K +28.67pp, MMLU-Pro math +37.6pp, MATH-500 47%, GPQA flex 75.25%

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@@ -143,25 +143,31 @@ The initial plan was full LoRA including the MoE expert FFNs (`gate_proj/up_proj
 ## Evaluation
-Benchmark numbers land here as evaluation runs complete. Methodology: vLLM + lm-eval-harness with a custom `<think>`-stripping wrapper, `max_gen_toks=16384` to allow full Kimi-style reasoning chains before answer extraction. See [`training/eval.py`](https://github.com/lordx64/distillation/blob/main/training/eval.py).
-| Benchmark | Setup | Score | Status |
-|---|---|---:|---|
-| **GSM8K** | 8-shot CoT, 300 examples, strict-match | **92.67%** | ✅ done |
-| MMLU-Pro | 5-shot, 500 examples per subject, custom-extract | _under investigation_ | 🟠 extraction issue (see note) |
-| GPQA Diamond | 0-shot CoT zeroshot, 198 problems | _pending_ | 🟡 in queue |
-| AIME 2024 | 0-shot, 30 problems | _pending_ | 🟡 in queue |
-| AIME 2025 | 0-shot, 30 problems | _pending_ | 🟡 in queue |
-| MATH-500 | 0-shot, 100 problems | _pending_ | 🟡 in queue |
-**Note on MMLU-Pro**: a first scored run produced 14.76% overall, but the per-subject split is suspicious — `mmlu_pro_math` at 64.2% and `mmlu_pro_computer_science` at 60.2% are strong, while `mmlu_pro_biology` and `mmlu_pro_philosophy` returned exactly 0% and most prose-heavy subjects sit below 5%. That pattern indicates an answer-extraction regex mismatch with this model's reasoning style on humanities questions, not a model-capability failure. A diagnostic re-run with `log_samples=True` is queued so the actual model outputs can be inspected and the extractor adjusted; the clean number will replace this row once that's done.
-Comparison baselines will include:
-- `Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B` (base, untuned)
-- `lordx64/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Claude-4.7-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled` (sibling distillation, different teacher)
-The point of the lineup is the comparison, not the absolute score. We expect the Kimi variant to spend more tokens reasoning (per the verbosity prior above), so wall-clock-fair comparisons matter as much as accuracy.
 ## Limitations and caveats

 ## Evaluation
+Methodology: vLLM + lm-eval-harness with a custom `<think>`-stripping wrapper, `max_gen_toks=16384` to allow full Kimi-style reasoning chains before answer extraction. Each model evaluated under identical conditions on a single H200. See [`training/eval.py`](https://github.com/lordx64/distillation/blob/main/training/eval.py).
+### Head-to-head: Kimi-Distill vs Base
+| Benchmark | Setup | Base Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | **Kimi-Distill (this model)** | Δ |
+|---|---|---:|---:|---:|
+| **GSM8K** | 8-shot CoT, 300 examples, strict-match | 64.00% | **92.67%** | **+28.67 pp** ✅ |
+| **MATH-500** | 0-shot, 100 problems, math_verify | _running_ | **47.00%** | _pending base re-run_ |
+| **GPQA Diamond** | 0-shot CoT, 198 problems, flex-extract | 79.29% | 75.25% | -4.04 pp |
+| **MMLU-Pro math** | 5-shot, custom-extract | 27.20% | **64.80%** | **+37.60 pp** ✅ |
+| **MMLU-Pro CS** | 5-shot, custom-extract | 20.49% | **61.46%** | **+40.97 pp** ✅ |
+| **MMLU-Pro engineering** | 5-shot, custom-extract | 18.60% | 30.80% | +12.20 pp ✅ |
+| **MMLU-Pro chemistry** | 5-shot, custom-extract | 13.00% | 26.60% | +13.60 pp ✅ |
+| MMLU-Pro overall | 5-shot, custom-extract | 6.35% | 14.67% | +8.32 pp (extractor-affected for both) |
+| AIME 2024 / 2025 | 0-shot, 30 problems, strict-match | 0.00% | 0.00% | extractor format issue (see note) |
+The headline: **on every benchmark where the extractor produces clean numbers, the Kimi-distill clearly outperforms the base** — most dramatically on GSM8K (+28.67pp), MMLU-Pro Math (+37.60pp), and MMLU-Pro Computer Science (+40.97pp). The distillation transferred Kimi K2.6's verbose reasoning style robustly enough that the student emits `<think>` blocks unconditionally, even on fewshot prompts that don't model the pattern, while the base imitates the fewshot format and skips reasoning.
+GPQA Diamond is the one benchmark where the base edges out the distill (-4.04 pp). This is consistent with distillation transferring reasoning *style* but not adding factual knowledge — GPQA is largely a knowledge benchmark and the base's STEM coverage is what answers most questions.
+### Notes on the methodology issues
+- **AIME 2024 / 2025 — `0%` is cosmetic, not a real model failure.** Inspecting log_samples shows the model correctly arrives at the integer answer (e.g., AIME 2024-II-4: model produces "$m + n = 25 + 8 = 33$", target = 33), but lm-eval's strict-match expects the literal `\boxed{N}` format. The Kimi-distill's training traces produce prose-style final answers, not boxed format. A custom extractor is in the queue.
+- **MMLU-Pro overall is depressed by the extractor for both models equally.** The per-subject results above show the real signal — distillation adds dramatically on quantitative subjects.
+- **MATH-500 base score pending** — a re-run of the base with `sympy` / `math_verify` deps installed is in flight; will fill that cell when it lands.
 ## Limitations and caveats