I had to fix this on 35B A3B -- I have a proxy that just shuts it down if it gets to 2K thinking tokens and injects something like "We have thought enough, let's begin working." and it almost always finishes the turn then. It rarely needs more than 2K thinking tokens and if it does there is always next turn. I would need to see what 27B is actually doing, but these smaller Qwen models seem prone to this.

Unfortunately in xhigh reasoning effort it will burn through 2K tokens before it has even finished its bullet point overview. It really is intense and obsessive. You might need ten times more!

Your strategy would likely help in medium reasoning effort (because there it gets caught up in the very typical Qwen looping).

Not seen looping in the “low” reasoning effort mode.

>I had to fix this on 35B A3B -- I have a proxy that just shuts it down if it gets to 2K thinking tokens and injects something like "We have thought enough, let's begin working." and it almost always finishes the turn then.

that is amazing, thanks for sharing.