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Model Card on HF ๐Ÿค—: https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/pythia-1b 

Pythia 1B Benchmarks

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Pythia 1B (EleutherAI/pythia-1b)
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Pythia 1B Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
Transformer-based Language Model, Causal Language Model
Use Cases 
Areas:
Research
Applications:
Scientific Experiments
Primary Use Cases:
Research on behavior, functionality, and limitations of large language models
Limitations:
Not suitable for deployment, May generate harmful or offensive text, English-language only, Not suitable for translation or generating text in other languages
Considerations:
Intended for a controlled research environment to study large language models.
Additional Notes 
Pythia models matched or exceeded performance of similar models despite not focusing on downstream performance.
Supported Languages 
en (high proficiency)
Training Details 
Data Sources:
The Pile
Data Volume:
825 GiB
Methodology:
Uniform batch size with 143 checkpoints, trained on same data order
Model Architecture:
Transformer-based
Input Output 
Input Format:
Plain text input through tokenization
Accepted Modalities:
text
Output Format:
Text token predictions
Performance Tips:
Ensure proper allocation of computational resources for large model sizes.
Release Notes 
Version:
Current release
Date:
January 2023
Notes:
Model renamed in January 2023 as part of release changes.
LLM NamePythia 1B
Repository ๐Ÿค—https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/pythia-1b 
Model Size1b
Required VRAM2.1 GB
Updated2025-09-23
MaintainerEleutherAI
Model Typegpt_neox
Model Files  2.1 GB   2.1 GB
Supported Languagesen
Model ArchitectureGPTNeoXForCausalLM
Licenseapache-2.0
Context Length2048
Model Max Length2048
Transformers Version4.24.0
Tokenizer ClassGPTNeoXTokenizer
Vocabulary Size50304
Torch Data Typefloat16

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