What are the hardware requirements for Himel3 1.7B?

Himel3 1.7B requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Himel3 1.7B and how large is it?

Himel3 1.7B is developed by Philiaxis, 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 Himel3 1.7B?

Himel3 1.7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Himel3 1.7B by Philiaxis — VRAM 3.5GB, 256K context

Name: Himel3 1.7B
Author: Philiaxis

Himel3 1.7B is an open-source language model by Philiaxis. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Base model:finetune:liquidai/l... Base model:liquidai/lfm3-1.7b Bf16 Conversational Custom code En Himel3 Ja Lfm3 Mlx Philiaxis Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Philiaxis/Himel3-1.7B

Himel3 1.7B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Himel3 1.7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Philiaxis/Himel3-1.7B
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-11-11
Maintainer	Philiaxis
Model Type	lfm3
Model Files	3.5 GB
Supported Languages	ja en
Model Architecture	Lfm3ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	128000

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Best Alternatives to Himel3 1.7B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
LFM3 1.7B	256K / 3.5 GB	32933	624
LFM3 1.7B Base	256K / 3.5 GB	3152	93
LFM3 1.7B NVFP4	256K / 1.8 GB	1360	16
LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16	256K / 3.5 GB	1385	11
Himel3 1.7B Graft	256K / 3.5 GB	476	1
LFM3 1.7B DERISKED	256K / 3.5 GB	85	11
LFM3 1.7B ONNX	256K / GB	932	13
LFM3 1.7B FP8	256K / 2.2 GB	893	12
LFM3 1.7B Turkish	256K / 3.5 GB	214	1
LFM3 1.7B Abliterated	256K / 3.5 GB	350	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Philiaxis/Himel3-1.7B.