What are the hardware requirements for ALMA 7B GGUF?

ALMA 7B GGUF requires approximately 2.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed ALMA 7B GGUF and how large is it?

ALMA 7B GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 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 ALMA 7B GGUF?

ALMA 7B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

ALMA 7B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 2.8GB

Name: ALMA 7B GGUF
Author: TheBloke

ALMA 7B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 2.8GB, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Arxiv:2309.11674 Base model:haoranxu/alma-7b Base model:quantized:haoranxu/... Gguf Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/ALMA-7B-GGUF

ALMA 7B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama, translation

Additional Notes

GGUF format model files available. Quantization methods explained.

Supported Languages

Chinese (high), English (high)

Training Details

Data Volume:

12B monolingual tokens

Methodology:

Full-weight fine-tuning on monolingual data followed by Full-weight fine-tuning on parallel data.

Input Output

Input Format:

Translate this from Chinese to English: Chinese: {prompt} English:

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

Text

LLM Name	ALMA 7B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/ALMA-7B-GGUF
Model Name	ALMA 7B
Model Creator	Haoran Xu
Base Model(s)	ALMA 7B haoranxu/ALMA-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	2.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.8 GB 3.6 GB 3.3 GB 3.0 GB 3.8 GB 4.1 GB 3.9 GB 4.7 GB 4.8 GB 4.7 GB 5.5 GB 7.2 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	mit

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