Pythia 2.8B by EleutherAI

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  Arxiv:2101.00027   Arxiv:2201.07311   Arxiv:2304.01373   Autotrain compatible   Dataset:eleutherai/pile   En   Endpoints compatible   Gpt neox   Pythia   Pytorch   Region:us   Safetensors
Model Card on HF ๐Ÿค—: https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/pythia-2.8b 

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Pythia 2.8B (EleutherAI/pythia-2.8b)
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Pythia 2.8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
transformer-based, language model
Use Cases 
Areas:
Research, Scientific Experiments
Primary Use Cases:
Behavior and functionality study of large language models
Limitations:
Not intended for deployment, May produce harmful or offensive text, English-language only
Considerations:
Conduct risk and bias assessment before use.
Additional Notes 
Non-embedding parameters: 6,444,163,072.
Supported Languages 
English (Fluent)
Training Details 
Data Sources:
the Pile
Data Volume:
299,892,736,000 tokens
Methodology:
Trained on deduplicated and non-deduplicated data, with checkpoints. Same hyperparameters for deduped and non-deduped models.
Model Architecture:
Transformer-based
Release Notes 
Version:
Current Release
Date:
January 2023
Notes:
Rename of models. Uniform batch size training. Added early checkpoints. Used Flash Attention.
LLM NamePythia 2.8B
Repository ๐Ÿค—https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/pythia-2.8b 
Model Size2.8b
Required VRAM5.7 GB
Updated2025-11-02
MaintainerEleutherAI
Model Typegpt_neox
Model Files  5.7 GB   5.7 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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