What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha?

Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha requires approximately 3.1 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 Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha and how large is it?

Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha is developed by MatthewsFace, 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 Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha?

Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha by MatthewsFace — VRAM 3.1GB, 128K context

Name: Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha
Author: MatthewsFace

Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha is an open-source language model by MatthewsFace. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

16bit Autotrain compatible Base model:finetune:matthewsfa... Base model:matthewsface/qwen2-... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Pytorch Quantized Qwen2 Region:us Sft Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MatthewsFace/Qwen2-1.5B-SFT-16bit-Alpha

Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2 1.5B SFT 16bit Alpha
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MatthewsFace/Qwen2-1.5B-SFT-16bit-Alpha
Base Model(s)	MatthewsFace/Qwen2-1.5B MatthewsFace/Qwen2-1.5B
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2025-08-29
Maintainer	MatthewsFace
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	16bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.49.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|PAD_TOKEN\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than MatthewsFace/Qwen2-1.5B-SFT-16bit-Alpha.