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I am currently looking for a model that can run on my phone, it could be <8b or even <4b. It should have a reduced positivity/yes-man bias. I am at a point in my language learning journey where it's more effective to learn a language through trying to actually construct a sentence (which is often through interaction) instead of just reading. Since there are times I am offline, a local LLM that is competent at multiple languages and decent at simulating characters texting would be a great help.

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[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Gemma 4 e2b and e4b are designed to work on phones.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I actually (just last night) abliterated a Qwen3.5-2B for this sort of purpose (well, more specifically, to fit neatly into a socket for a project). It's fast and light polaris-heretic-Q4_K_M-GGUF

Try it and see if it works? I inadvertently made it really fucking love dotpoints (GPT-OSS 20B disease) so am trying to unfuck it right now.

Else - I can recommend something like Granite-4H or the old Qwen3-4B 2507 instruct

granite-4.1-3b-heretic.i1-Q4_K_M

Qwen3-4B 2507 instruct

[–] XiELEd@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Thanks! I can't wait to try them. Though what differences do you find between Granite-4H and Qwen3-4B 2507?