What are the hardware requirements for VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit?

VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit requires approximately 16.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit and how large is it?

VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit is developed by Aeala, a model with 30b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit perform on standard benchmarks?

VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit has the following published scores: MMLU 57.64. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit by Aeala — VRAM 16.9GB, 2K context

Name: VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit
Author: Aeala

VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit is an open-source language model by Aeala. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 16.9GB, Context: 2K, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09, Arc: 61.9, HellaSwag: 83.8, MMLU: 57.6, GSM8K: 14.6.

4bit Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Aeala/VicUnlocked-alpaca-30b-4bit

VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Text Generation

Additional Notes

Use Alpaca-style prompts for optimal results.

Training Details

Data Sources:

ShareGPT dataset, Alpaca format

Data Volume:

Unknown

Methodology:

4-bit GPTQ quantization

Model Architecture:

Alpaca format based on Vicuna model

Input Output

Input Format:

### Instruction: (without the <>) ### Response:

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Aeala/VicUnlocked-alpaca-30b-4bit
Base Model(s)	VicUnlocked Alpaca 30B Aeala/VicUnlocked-alpaca-30b
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	16.9 GB
Updated	2026-09-04
Maintainer	Aeala
Model Type	llama
Model Files	18.1 GB 16.9 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.29.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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