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          "unchecked, whether LM Studio's runtime runs spark2_5, as the card says. LM Studio's catalogue has no Spark entry, so it's scored 0",
          "Responsiveness is 0 only because the repositories are two days old and nobody has asked anything yet. It should be recounted at the next check",
          "The Base repository's card is a cut-down copy of the post-trained card that calls its own files the post-trained model, though its shards differ from both this repository's and X2.5-Base's. Whether it's a true base checkpoint is unconfirmed",
          "No SparkLLM website was found, so provenance rests on the GitHub organisation naming the Hub repositories. Who SparkLLM and XHToken are as a company is unconfirmed"
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        "Plain Apache 2.0 on its own base, with no gate or account",
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        "Released support in llama.cpp, SGLang and Ollama, with SGLang's own spark25 tool parser",
        "Thinking that turns off per request or runs at low or high effort, and several tool calls a turn",
        "A private security reporting route in SparkLLM's GitHub"
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        "The card has no limitations, cut-off, architecture description or training data, and leans on X2.5's",
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        "Quickest start is `llama-server -hf XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, which needs llama.cpp b10828 or later, or `ollama run SparkLLM/Spark-X2.6-4B` (8.2 GB, Ollama 0.34.1 or later)",
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        "Thinking is on by default. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false to turn it off, or `reasoning_effort` low for short thinking; the template raises an error on any effort other than high or low",
        "SparkLLM's recommended sampling is temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and top_k -1",
        "The template always opens with its own default system line, with the effort instruction, and puts your system message after the tool list",
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          "who": "publisher",
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          "url": "https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B-GGUF/blob/main/Spark-X2.6-4B-Q8_0.gguf",
          "who": "publisher",
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          "url": "https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B-GGUF/blob/main/Spark-X2.6-4B.gguf",
          "who": "publisher",
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          "who": "publisher",
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        },
        {
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          "url": "https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.5-4B-Base",
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          "url": "https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.5-1.7B",
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      "The card says X2.6 keeps the same architecture as Spark-X2.5-4B and gains through improved post-training. config.json is identical to X2.5's (https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B)",
      "The card's benchmark chart gives 71.8 on BFCL-V4 (X2.5 65.1), 34.7 on τ³-bench, 62.4 on MCP-Atlas, 53.1 on BrowseComp and 54.3 on SWE Pro, against Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 models. These are SparkLLM's numbers, shown only as an image, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B/raw/main/images/benchmark.svg)",
      "New in X2.6, the template takes a reasoning_effort of high or low, and enable_thinking false turns thinking off, the three levels the card names (https://huggingface.co/XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B/raw/main/chat_template.jinja)",
      "SGLang 0.5.22 has its own spark2_5 model code and spark25 tool parser, and llama.cpp runs spark2_5 from b10828. vLLM 0.32.0 has no Spark2_5 model and needs SparkLLM's out-of-tree plugin (https://github.com/XHToken/Spark-plugin)"
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      },
      {
        "label": "Files",
        "value": "Five safetensors shards (8.24 GB) with chat_template.jinja, configuration_spark.py and modeling_spark.py, which config.json's auto_map loads in Transformers. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for every LFS file"
      },
      {
        "label": "Licence",
        "value": "Apache 2.0, copyright 2026 XHToken, in a LICENSE file in the repository. No use policy. The declared base, Spark-X2.6-4B-Base, is SparkLLM's own, also Apache 2.0 with the same LICENSE file"
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        "label": "Runtimes",
        "value": "Model code in SGLang 0.5.22 (spark2_5.py and the spark25 tool parser) and llama.cpp from b10828 (still there at b11774), which Ollama 0.34.1 and later bundle. Transformers and vLLM need the repository's code or SparkLLM's vLLM plugin. The card also names LM Studio, Unsloth Studio and SparkLLM's own Spark-MLX-LLM"
      },
      {
        "label": "Context",
        "value": "1,048,576 tokens per config.json (max_position_embeddings, no scaling) and the card's SGLang command. tokenizer_config.json says 131,072 as model_max_length"
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      {
        "label": "Tools and reasoning",
        "value": "The template declares tools as compact JSON inside `\u003ctools\u003e` and renders calls as `\u003ctool_call\u003ename\u003carg_key\u003ek\u003c/arg_key\u003e\u003carg_value\u003ev\u003c/arg_value\u003e\u003c/tool_call\u003e`, several per turn, which SGLang's spark25 parser reads. Thinking is on by default. `enable_thinking: false` in chat_template_kwargs turns it off, and the template's `reasoning_effort` takes high (default) or low. The qwen3 reasoning parser separates the reasoning"
      },
      {
        "label": "Hardware",
        "value": "The card states no memory needs. It names NVIDIA GPUs and Huawei Ascend NPUs, with Docker commands for both. Files are 8.24 GB in BF16, 4.47 GB in FP8 or INT8, 3.43 GB in INT4 and 3.19 GB for the Q4_K_M GGUF"
      },
      {
        "label": "Training data",
        "value": "Not described on the X2.6 card, which says only that the gains come from improved post-training. X2.5's card described about 20 trillion tokens of pre-training data"
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      "domainRegistered": "",
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      "terms": "",
      "privacy": "",
      "statusPage": "",
      "changelog": "",
      "securityTxt": "none",
      "checked": "2026-10-21",
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        "SparkLLM's GitHub organisation XHToken documents its Hugging Face repositories by name (Spark-MLX-LLM's README), and the X2.6 card points to Spark-plugin, Spark-MLX-LLM and XHToken/LlamaFactory there, which ties the two together.",
        "XHToken/community on GitHub has a SECURITY.md with a private advisory route and a security email, which Spark-plugin's SECURITY.md points to.",
        "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
        "No changelog. The commits from 19 and 20 October 2026 are uploads titled only \"Upload Spark-X2.6-4B model files\"."
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          "max": 15,
          "state": "no"
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          "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain",
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