What are the hardware requirements for Light 1.1 3B?

Light 1.1 3B requires approximately 6.2 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 Light 1.1 3B and how large is it?

Light 1.1 3B is developed by Sakalti, 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 Light 1.1 3B?

Light 1.1 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Light 1.1 3B by Sakalti — VRAM 6.2GB, 128K context

Name: Light 1.1 3B
Author: Sakalti

Light 1.1 3B is an open-source language model by Sakalti. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.2GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Base model:finetune:sakalti/li... Base model:sakalti/light-3b Conversational En Endpoints compatible Ja Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sft Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Sakalti/light-1.1-3B

Light 1.1 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Light 1.1 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Sakalti/light-1.1-3B
Base Model(s)	Light 3B Sakalti/light-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	Sakalti
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en ja
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|vision_pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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