General vs Reasoning [Qwen 3.6]

r/LocalLLaMA
Open Source AI

I want to play with Qwen 3.6. Unsloth shows 4 different parameter options for different use-cases. I'm confused about the difference between General and Reasoning tasks. For instruct / non-thinking there are options for General and Reasoning. But what does Reasoning mean in this situation? I thought reasoning referred to the thinking variant, which this is not. What is reasoning when not thinking? I did ask my local AI this, but it got lost talking about fine-turned models, whereas this is just about different options.