[trashcan2137]

  and the EOS is "<turn|>". "<|channel>thought\n" is also used for the thinking trace!

Can someone explain this to me? Why is this faux-XML important here?

[pertymcpert]

That’s how the model is trained to signal the end to its generation and to indicate its thinking.

[sroussey]

These are likely individual tokens. They are super common.