Qwen3-VL-2B Shows Major Math Reasoning Gains After Quick Fine-Tuning

Researcher Hritik Bansal shared that Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct saw impressive accuracy improvements on math and logic benchmarks after just one training round.

● Hritik Bansal recently posted early findings on Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct—a compact multimodal AI model—got significantly better at math and logic reasoning after a single training epoch. The fine-tuned version, called HoneyBee, beat the original across multiple standard benchmarks.

● The team focused on training Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct using a specialized reasoning dataset. Despite being a smaller model, it showed you don't need massive computational power to achieve meaningful improvements. That said, Bansal noted that quick fine-tuning like this carries overfitting risks—basically, the model might pick up quirks from the training data if you're not careful.

● From a business perspective, these results matter. Better performance from smaller models means lower costs for companies deploying AI in education, analytics, or robotics. The updated model jumped from 43.2% to 49.4% average accuracy, with standout gains on LogicVista (27.9% → 44.0%) and GPQA-D (7.6% → 35.9%), based on Bansal's shared benchmarks.

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