Why Qwen is Dynamically Stable: An Empirical Phase Map of 10 LLMs

Back when DeepSeek was making headlines in the general news, I often heard people on Discord say that Qwen was the easiest to work with as a student model for LLMs. As for teacher models, back then it was DeepSeek or various other commercial LLMs… I think Qwen was version 2.5 at the time, but I don’t think even the current version of Qwen has lost that characteristic. Qwen series tends to retain its original capabilities even after fine-tuning… though I don’t use it that heavily myself, so this is just my personal impression. There might actually be a structural basis for its excellence as a student model…