What are the hardware requirements for TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct?

TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct requires approximately 3.1 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 TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct and how large is it?

TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct is developed by SakanaAI, a model with 1.5b 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 TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct?

TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct by SakanaAI — VRAM 3.1GB, 32K context

Name: TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct
Author: SakanaAI

TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct is an open-source language model by SakanaAI. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2501.16937 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-1.5b-i... Conversational Dataset:tokyotech-llm/lmsys-ch... Dataset:tokyotech-llm/swallow-... Dataset:tokyotech-llm/swallow-... Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Instruct Ja Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/SakanaAI/TinySwallow-1.5B-Instruct

TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	TinySwallow 1.5B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/SakanaAI/TinySwallow-1.5B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	SakanaAI
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.1 GB
Supported Languages	ja
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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