What are the hardware requirements for Muse 3B?

Muse 3B requires approximately 5.9 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 Muse 3B and how large is it?

Muse 3B is developed by Muse-research, a model with 3b 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 Muse 3B?

Muse 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Muse 3B by Muse-research — VRAM 5.9GB, 8K context

Name: Muse 3B
Author: Muse-research

Muse 3B is an open-source language model by Muse-research. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 5.9GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Muse-research/Muse-3B

Muse 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Muse 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Muse-research/Muse-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	5.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-11
Maintainer	Muse-research
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.9 GB
Supported Languages	en de fr it es pt
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	5.8.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Errors	replace

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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Nanbeige4.1 3B	256K / 7.9 GB	20875	1161
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	149	50
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic Mxfp4	256K / 7.9 GB	34	2
Nanbeige4.1 3B Bf16	256K / 7.9 GB	47	3
...anbeige4.1 3B Heretic Bfloat16	256K / 7.9 GB	33	1
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	14	1
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	14	0
ISA 03 Mini 3B Hybrid Preview	256K / 6.5 GB	4	4
ToolMind Web 3B	192K / 7.9 GB	156	28
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	128K / 6.5 GB	1829572	2368

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Muse-research/Muse-3B.