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Best vision models under 6B?

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8 Sept
Best vision models under 6B?
OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMA
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3 May
Qwen3.6 27B - possible to add vision?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Since it came from a vision model i was wondering why it doesn’t ship with a mmproj file. Possible to get vision on 3.6 27b? </p> </div><!--

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
23 Mar
Are there any comparisons between Qwen3.5 4B vs Qwen3-VL 4B for vision tasks (captionin)?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Can't find any benchmarks.. But I assume Qwen3.5 4B is probably worse since its multimodal priority vs Qwen3-VL whose priority is VISION.</p>

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11 May
What's the current best small model?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Around 3B please thank you</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Conscious_Nobody9571">

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
10 Sept
Will there be actual "medium-local" models in future ?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Or has this niche been abandoned?</p> <p>Most companies and model producers have seem to abandoned this niche(7B, 9B, 14B etc) which was the

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
28 Mar
Where do you guys find good comparisons of Chinese coding models?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Long time Claude Opus user, but after the recent session limit changes by Anthropic, I am seriously considering trying Chinese models for coding.

OPINION · WHERE · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
12 Apr
Why bother with local LLMs?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Tomorrow, I am getting delivery of a 13&quot; M5 macbook air with 32gb RAM and 1T SSD. Currently, I have pro subscriptions to Gemini, Perplexity

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
23 Mar
Need advice: Easiest way to run a local VLM (Vision) natively on Android/Kotlin for a CS degree final project?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>I'm a Computer Engineering student working on my final degree project (TFG), and I have around 300 hours to complete it.</p>

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
2 Aug
Best model <3B for multilingual understanding/ instruction following?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I know qwen 3.5 4b is great but a bit too large and miniPCM5 1b is great for agentic use but not so great for multilingual natural language

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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