Did you know that you can use Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base as an instruction/reasoning Model?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 4/17/2026

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Key Points

  • The article suggests that Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base can be used as an instruction and reasoning model, not just a plain base model.
  • It recommends using a small DAN-style system prompt to achieve stronger instruction following and more permissive behavior than typical instruct models.
  • The post claims the model supports full instruction-following and chain-of-thought (CoT), which is usually not available in standard base models.
  • While it may be less capable than the “normal” instruct version, the post notes that Alibaba’s training and the availability of LoRA enable practical finetuning on the base model.
Did you know that you can use Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base as an instruction/reasoning Model?

https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base-GGUF

Yes, Qwen 3.6 is out and it's a great model. However, who needs an even more "uncensored but official" model, can try out this one. With a small clever DAN-Sysprompt you get pretty far because it is not as paranoid than the normal instruct model.

It has full instruct-following and even CoT (unlike normal base models). It's not as smart than the "normal one" but Alibaba has trained it on a significant amount of tokens to allow LoRA on the base model.

https://preview.redd.it/scrv2fuxepvg1.png?width=1291&format=png&auto=webp&s=e91382ee6441f0201d726476b6b32fa9f95ebbcd

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