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AfriqueLlama 8B by McGill-NLP

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AfriqueLlama 8B is an open-source language model by McGill-NLP. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: cc-by-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

  Arxiv:2601.06395   Af   African-languages   Afrique-llm   Am   Ar Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3....   Continued-pretraining   Conversational   En   Endpoints compatible   Fr   Ha   Ig   Llama   Llamafactory   Mg   Multilingual   Ny   Om   Pt   Region:us   Rw   Safetensors   Sharded   Sn   So   St   Sw   Tensorflow   Ti   Tn   Xh   Yo   Zu
Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/AfriqueLlama-8B 

AfriqueLlama 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM NameAfriqueLlama 8B
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/AfriqueLlama-8B 
Base Model(s)  meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B   meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B
Model Size8b
Required VRAM16.1 GB
Updated2026-05-31
MaintainerMcGill-NLP
Model Typellama
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
Supported Languagesaf am ar en fr ha ig mg ny om pt rw sn so st sw ti tn xh yo zu
Model ArchitectureLlamaForCausalLM
Licensecc-by-4.0
Context Length131072
Model Max Length131072
Transformers Version4.55.4
Tokenizer ClassPreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token<|end_of_text|>
Vocabulary Size128256
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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