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by meander_water 36 days ago
I'm so excited for this, nice work!

Gemma4 edge models were promised to be great for agentic use, but have been really disappointing in all my tests. They fail at the most basic tool use scenarios.

Have you run any tool-use benchmarks for Needle, or do you plan to? Would be great if you could add results to the repo if so.

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Wait what? I've used DeepSeek V4 flash a lot and compsred to Gemma 4 E2B (ie. the smallest, event at q4), it consistently underperforms. In contrast to DS flash, I've found Gemma 4 to be incredibly precise and consistent with tool use.