What are the hardware requirements for Polaris 1.7B Preview?

Polaris 1.7B Preview requires approximately 3.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Polaris 1.7B Preview and how large is it?

Polaris 1.7B Preview is developed by POLARIS-Project, a model with 1.7b 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 Polaris 1.7B Preview?

Polaris 1.7B Preview is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Polaris 1.7B Preview by POLARIS-Project — VRAM 3.4GB, 128K context

Name: Polaris 1.7B Preview
Author: POLARIS-Project

Polaris 1.7B Preview is an open-source language model by POLARIS-Project. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.4GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-1.7b En Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/POLARIS-Project/Polaris-1.7B-Preview

Polaris 1.7B Preview Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Polaris 1.7B Preview
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/POLARIS-Project/Polaris-1.7B-Preview
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	POLARIS-Project
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	3.4 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.53.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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