What are the hardware requirements for Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2?

Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2 requires approximately 22.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2 and how large is it?

Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2 is developed by LoneStriker, a model with 34b 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 Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2?

Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2 by LoneStriker — VRAM 22.2GB, 4K context

Name: Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2
Author: LoneStriker

Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2 is an open-source language model by LoneStriker. Features: 34b LLM, VRAM: 22.2GB, Context: 4K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Custom code Exl2 Pytorch Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Yi

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker/Yi-34B-5.0bpw-h6-exl2

Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Yi 34B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker/Yi-34B-5.0bpw-h6-exl2
Model Size	34b
Required VRAM	22.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	LoneStriker
Model Type	Yi
Model Files	8.5 GB: 1-of-3 8.5 GB: 2-of-3 5.2 GB: 3-of-3
Quantization Type	exl2
Model Architecture	YiForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.34.0
Tokenizer Class	YiTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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