What are the hardware requirements for Swahili Gemma?

Swahili Gemma requires approximately 17.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Swahili Gemma and how large is it?

Swahili Gemma is developed by Mollel, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Swahili Gemma perform on standard benchmarks?

Swahili Gemma has the following published scores: MMLU 61.02. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Swahili Gemma by Mollel — VRAM 17.1GB, 8K context

Name: Swahili Gemma
Author: Mollel

Swahili Gemma is an open-source language model by Mollel. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 17.1GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 59, HellaSwag: 76.4, MMLU: 61, GSM8K: 43.8.

4bit Conversational En Endpoints compatible Gemma Pytorch Quantized Region:us Sharded Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Mollel/Swahili_Gemma

Swahili Gemma Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation-inference, transformers, unsloth, gemma, trl

LLM Name	Swahili Gemma
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Mollel/Swahili_Gemma
Base Model(s)	gemma-7b-bnb-4bit /gemma-7b-bnb-4bit
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	17.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	Mollel
Model Type	gemma
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.1 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	GemmaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.38.2
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	float16

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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Swahili Gemma

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
DAD Model Gemma V3	0	10	5 GB

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Mollel/Swahili_Gemma.