What are the hardware requirements for MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B?

MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B requires approximately 4.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B and how large is it?

MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B is developed by MiniLLM, a model with 1.2b 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 MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B?

MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B by MiniLLM — VRAM 4.6GB, 32K context

Name: MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B
Author: MiniLLM

MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B is an open-source language model by MiniLLM. Features: 1.2b LLM, VRAM: 4.6GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Arxiv:2410.17215 Conversational Dataset:minillm/pile-diff samp... Dataset:monology/pile-uncopyri... En Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MiniLLM/MiniPLM-Qwen-1.2B

MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniPLM Qwen 1.2B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MiniLLM/MiniPLM-Qwen-1.2B
Model Size	1.2b
Required VRAM	4.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-24
Maintainer	MiniLLM
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	4.6 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.45.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float32
Errors	replace

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