What are the hardware requirements for Light 3B?

Light 3B requires approximately 6.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Light 3B and how large is it?

Light 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 3B?

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

Light 3B by Sakalti — VRAM 6.9GB, 32K context

Name: Light 3B
Author: Sakalti

Light 3B is an open-source language model by Sakalti. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.9GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Merged Model Arxiv:2306.01708 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

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

Light 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Light 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Sakalti/light-3B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.9 GB
Updated	2026-06-28
Maintainer	Sakalti
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	0.6 GB: 1-of-8 1.0 GB: 2-of-8 1.0 GB: 3-of-8 1.0 GB: 4-of-8 1.0 GB: 5-of-8 1.0 GB: 6-of-8 1.0 GB: 7-of-8 0.3 GB: 8-of-8
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.45.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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