What are the hardware requirements for Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B?

Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B and how large is it?

Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B is developed by Danielbrdz, a model with 1.5b 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 Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B?

Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B by Danielbrdz — VRAM 3.5GB, 128K context

Name: Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B
Author: Danielbrdz

Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B is an open-source language model by Danielbrdz. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:finetune:deepseek-a... Conversational Dataset:pinzhenchen/alpaca-cle... En Endpoints compatible Es Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Danielbrdz/Barcenas-R1-Qwen-1.5b

Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Barcenas R1 Qwen 1.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Danielbrdz/Barcenas-R1-Qwen-1.5b
Base Model(s)	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-25
Maintainer	Danielbrdz
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.5 GB
Supported Languages	es en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.48.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float16

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