unsloth/studio/backend/utils
Daniel Han e4d1499230
fix(studio): prevent small models from stalling on tool-calling tasks (#4769)
* fix(studio): prevent small models from stalling on tool-calling tasks

Small GGUF models (< 9B params) in "Think, Search, Code" mode would
often describe what they planned to do ("Let me create this dashboard")
and then stop generating without ever calling a tool.

Three changes:

1. Simplify web_tips for small models: remove the "fetch its full content
   by calling web_search with the url parameter" guidance for models < 9B.
   This multi-step instruction causes small models to plan elaborate
   search-then-fetch-then-code sequences they cannot reliably execute.

2. Add "always call tools directly" imperative to the system prompt nudge
   so models act immediately instead of narrating their intentions.

3. Add plan-without-action re-prompt in the agentic loop: when the model
   emits planning text (matching patterns like "let me", "I'll", etc.)
   without calling any tool, inject a nudge asking it to call the tool
   and continue the loop. Capped at 2 re-prompts per request.

Benchmarked with Qwen3.5-4B-GGUF (N=5 trials per variant):
- Baseline: 40% of requests had any tool call
- Combined fix: 100% of requests had at least one tool call

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Co-authored-by: Daniel Han <danielhanchen@users.noreply.github.com>
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datasets fix(studio): avoid UnicodeEncodeError on Windows cp1252 consoles (#4699) 2026-03-30 06:40:47 -07:00
hardware [studio] multi gpu: revert to balanced for inference. (#4698) 2026-03-31 01:24:41 -07:00
inference Fix Windows local GGUF model loading crash (#4730) 2026-04-01 01:38:09 -07:00
models fix(studio): prevent small models from stalling on tool-calling tasks (#4769) 2026-04-02 02:11:07 -07:00
paths fix: preserve Windows drive-letter paths on native Windows (#4665) 2026-03-27 08:19:41 -07:00
.gitkeep root studio folder 2026-02-02 09:13:49 +00:00
__init__.py Final cleanup 2026-03-12 18:28:04 +00:00
cache_cleanup.py fix(studio): prevent ModuleNotFoundError in dataset.map() on Windows (#4473) 2026-03-22 06:11:24 -07:00
downsample.py feat(studio): training history persistence and past runs viewer (#4501) 2026-03-25 00:58:55 -07:00
transformers_version.py feat: support GGUF export for non-PEFT models + fix venv_t5 switching for local checkpoints (#4455) 2026-03-20 12:13:18 +04:00
utils.py Final cleanup 2026-03-12 18:28:04 +00:00