What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO?

Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO requires approximately 17.6 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 Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO and how large is it?

Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO is developed by Gadsdencode, a model with 8b 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 Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO?

Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO by Gadsdencode — VRAM 17.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO
Author: Gadsdencode

Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO is an open-source language model by Gadsdencode. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Dpo Endpoints compatible Granite Icdu Region:us Safetensors Sft

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Gadsdencode/Granite-4.2-8B-ICDU-DPO

Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.2 8B ICDU DPO
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Gadsdencode/Granite-4.2-8B-ICDU-DPO
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.6 GB
Updated	2026-10-19
Maintainer	Gadsdencode
Model Type	granite
Model Files	17.6 GB
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.17.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Errors	replace

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