What are the hardware requirements for Edu Slm?

Edu Slm 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 Edu Slm and how large is it?

Edu Slm is developed by Kishan42, 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 Edu Slm?

Edu Slm is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Edu Slm by Kishan42 — VRAM 3.5GB, 128K context

Name: Edu Slm
Author: Kishan42

Edu Slm is an open-source language model by Kishan42. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:finetune:deepseek-a... Conversational Education En Endpoints compatible Jee Lora Lora-merged Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sft

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Kishan42/Edu_slm

Edu Slm Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Edu Slm
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Kishan42/Edu_slm
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	2026-09-21
Maintainer	Kishan42
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.16.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	151936
LoRA Model	Yes

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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B	128K / 3.5 GB	600051	1545
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Pulsar Coder V1	128K / 3.1 GB	291	1
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Kishan42/Edu_slm.