Relatedly, someone found that on a Qwen MoE, increasing the number of experts at the deep layers reduces the number of thinking tokens. So while you mention that the LLM is capable of thinking more if it's thinking less clearly, it looks like it's also capable of thinking less if it's thinking more clearly?

This has been validated on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, but with the caveat that it was always on quants.

https://github.com/vagrillo/llama.cpp/blob/moe-expansion/ben...