What are the hardware requirements for BananaMind 1.0 Instruct?

BananaMind 1.0 Instruct requires approximately 6.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed BananaMind 1.0 Instruct and how large is it?

BananaMind 1.0 Instruct is developed by BananaMind, a model with 1.6b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate BananaMind 1.0 Instruct?

BananaMind 1.0 Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

BananaMind 1.0 Instruct by BananaMind — VRAM 6.2GB

Name: BananaMind 1.0 Instruct
Author: BananaMind

BananaMind 1.0 Instruct is an open-source language model by BananaMind. Features: 1.6b LLM, VRAM: 6.2GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Alpaca Base model:finetune:openai-com... Base model:openai-community/gp... En Gpt2 Gpt2-xl Instruct Instruction-tuned Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/BananaMind/BananaMind-1.0-Instruct

BananaMind 1.0 Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	BananaMind 1.0 Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/BananaMind/BananaMind-1.0-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Gpt2 Xl openai-community/gpt2-xl
Model Size	1.6b
Required VRAM	6.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-11
Maintainer	BananaMind
Model Type	gpt2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	6.2 GB 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	GPT2LMHeadModel
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	1024
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	50257
Activation Function	gelu_new
Errors	replace

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