What are the hardware requirements for Diff Codegen 6B V2?

Diff Codegen 6B V2 requires approximately 14.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Diff Codegen 6B V2 and how large is it?

Diff Codegen 6B V2 is developed by CarperAI, a model with 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 Diff Codegen 6B V2?

Diff Codegen 6B V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Diff Codegen 6B V2 by CarperAI — VRAM 14.3GB

Name: Diff Codegen 6B V2
Author: CarperAI

Diff Codegen 6B V2 is an open-source language model by CarperAI. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 14.3GB, License: mit, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.05.

Arxiv:2101.00027 Arxiv:2201.07311 Arxiv:2203.13474 Code Code-generation Codegen Diff model En Endpoints compatible Pytorch Region:us Safetensors The pile

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/CarperAI/diff-codegen-6b-v2

Diff Codegen 6B V2 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

causal-lm, code-generation

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

Prototyping code generation systems, Experimental purposes

Limitations:

Underperform on underrepresented languages, Not suitable for mission-critical settings

Additional Notes

Suggested for use in experiments, not commercial settings. Caution advised due to potential security vulnerabilities.

Training Details

Data Sources:

The Pile, GitHub commits via Google BigQuery Public Dataset

Data Volume:

19 million commits

Methodology:

Fine-tuned on a large dataset of commits. Formatted using Unified Diff Format for input to the language model.

Context Length:

2048

Hardware Used:

64 A100 GPUs provided by Stability AI

Input Output

Input Format:

Formatted as Unified Diff Format.

Accepted Modalities:

code

Output Format:

Code in diff format.

LLM Name	Diff Codegen 6B V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/CarperAI/diff-codegen-6b-v2
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	14.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-24
Maintainer	CarperAI
Model Type	codegen
Model Files	14.3 GB 14.3 GB
Supported Languages	en code
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	CodeGenForCausalLM
License	mit
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.22.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	50295
Torch Data Type	float16
Activation Function	gelu_new

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