DiabeticDaily-9B 🐝🏠
The home-box tier of the OpenDiabetic ladder — distilled-class diabetic intelligence sized to run on a
home appliance (NAS + a low-power GPU like the RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell, ~70W). Cooked by Swarm and Bee LLC.
Beat-base — proven
Held-out perplexity vs base Qwen3.5-9B (text never trained on):
| held-out loss | perplexity |
|---|
| Base Qwen3.5-9B | 1.3625 | 3.906 |
| DiabeticDaily-9B | 0.8079 | 2.243 |
| Δ | −0.555 (+40.7% better) | |
Verdict: BEAT BASE ✅. Models the domain ~41% better than base — and its perplexity (2.24) is nearly the
27B anchor's (2.05): the knowledge survives the shrink. That's the distillation-ladder thesis, proven.
How it was cooked
- Base: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B (Apache-2.0). Data: the same deeded OpenDiabetic corpus as the 27B anchor.
- Recipe: LoRA r64/α32 on attn+mlp, LR 1e-5, cosine, early-stop overcook guard. Merged bf16.
The ladder: 🐝 27B anchor (+57%) → 🏠 9B home (+40.7%) → 🛏️ 4B edge (+40.4%)
⚠️ Not medical advice — diabetic lifestyle/education/organization only. Not a diagnosis. Emergencies → 911.
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Swarm and Bee LLC ·
opendiabetic.com · Apache-2.0 ·
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