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Train Gemma 4 on Its Own Cut-Short Answers: Half the Tokens on an 8 GB RTX 3050
Oct 25, 2026

Train Gemma 4 on Its Own Cut-Short Answers: Half the Tokens on an 8 GB RTX 3050

llama.cpp's thinking cap trades accuracy for tokens. Fine-tuning Gemma 4 E2B on its own answers sampled under a 64-token cap halves tokens per correct answer on all 1,319 GSM8K test problems, with no cap at inference, for 12 to 33 fewer right answers across four training runs, and matches the accuracy of the best cap with 9.5% to 16.6% fewer tokens.

Oct 25, 202611 min read2 reactions0 comments