What are the hardware requirements for Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B?

Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B requires approximately 0.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B and how large is it?

Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B is developed by KittyLM, a model with 3b 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 Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B?

Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B by KittyLM — VRAM 0.1GB

Name: Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B
Author: KittyLM

Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B is an open-source language model by KittyLM. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 0.1GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Base model:adapter:ibm-granite... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Dataset:kittylm/kittylm-data-r... Endpoints compatible Granite Kittylm Lora Persona Region:us Roleplay Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/KittyLM/kittylm-granite-4.2-3b

Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kittylm Granite 4.2 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/KittyLM/kittylm-granite-4.2-3b
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	0.1 GB
Updated	2026-10-01
Maintainer	KittyLM
Model Files	0.1 GB 7.3 GB
Model Architecture	AutoModelForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Is Biased	none
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
PEFT Type	LORA
LoRA Model	Yes
PEFT Target Modules	v_proj\|q_proj\|gate_proj\|o_proj\|up_proj\|k_proj\|down_proj
LoRA Alpha	32
LoRA Dropout	0.05
R Param	32
Errors	replace

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