Austen Allred(@Austen):And @sidvenkatayogi built a fine-tuned Qwen3-1.7B model that recommends 6th-8th grade level math problems, optimized for landing questions in a student’s zone of proximal development. Significantly beats Opus-4.8 on recall@16 (96% vs 17%) and is 8x faster (1.10s vs 8.57s)

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2026.07.20 17:22

And @sidvenkatayogi built a fine-tuned Qwen3-1.7B model that recommends 6th-8th grade level math problems, optimized for landing questions in a student’s zone of proximal development. Significantly beats Opus-4.8 on recall@16 (96% vs 17%) and is 8x faster (1.10s vs 8.57s)