What are the hardware requirements for Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot?

Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot and how large is it?

Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot is developed by Hastagaras, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot perform on standard benchmarks?

Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot has the following published scores: MMLU 67.04. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot by Hastagaras — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot
Author: Hastagaras

Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot is an open-source language model by Hastagaras. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 63.8, HellaSwag: 84.6, MMLU: 67, GSM8K: 70.5.

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Autotrain compatible Base model:bintangfortuna/halu... Base model:blackroot/llama-3-8... Base model:blackroot/llama-3-l... Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Model-index Not-for-all-audiences Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Hastagaras/Halu-8B-Llama3-Blackroot

Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Halu 8B Llama3 Blackroot
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Hastagaras/Halu-8B-Llama3-Blackroot
Base Model(s)	Hastagaras/Halu-8B-Llama3-v0.3 Llama 3 LongStory LORA Hastagaras/Halu-8B-Llama3-v0.3 Llama 3 8B Abomination LORA Hastagaras/Halu-8B-Llama3-v0.3 Hastagaras/Halu-8B-Llama3-v0.3 Blackroot/Llama-3-LongStory-LORA Hastagaras/Halu-8B-Llama3-v0.3 Blackroot/Llama-3-8B-Abomination-LORA Hastagaras/Halu-8B-Llama3-v0.3
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2025-09-29
Maintainer	Hastagaras
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.41.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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