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Fine-tuning Cactus Needle 2 can match DeepSeek v4 on the specific task

Via r/LocalLlama
Thursday, Aug 20, 2026 ยท 8:15PM
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Hey LocalLlama, Henry from Cactus here! When we trained Needle 2, I had a strict rule to not expose the model to any data sample that remotely felt like these benchmarks. It seemed over-the-top, but benchmarks are easy to overfit around, yet struggle in the wild, especially since we quantize to 2-bi

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