What are the hardware requirements for MiniPLM Qwen 500M?

MiniPLM Qwen 500M requires approximately 1.9 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 500M and how large is it?

MiniPLM Qwen 500M is developed by MiniLLM, a model with 1.8b 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 500M?

MiniPLM Qwen 500M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniPLM Qwen 500M by MiniLLM — VRAM 1.9GB, 32K context

Name: MiniPLM Qwen 500M
Author: MiniLLM

MiniPLM Qwen 500M is an open-source language model by MiniLLM. Features: 1.8b LLM, VRAM: 1.9GB, 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-500M

MiniPLM Qwen 500M Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniPLM Qwen 500M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MiniLLM/MiniPLM-Qwen-500M
Model Size	1.8b
Required VRAM	1.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	MiniLLM
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	1.9 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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