What are the hardware requirements for Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ?

Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ requires approximately 7.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ and how large is it?

Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 13b 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 Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ?

Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ by TheBloke — VRAM 7.3GB, 4K context

Name: Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ
Author: TheBloke

Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 7.3GB, Context: 4K, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

4-bit Base model:heralax/cat-0.5 Base model:quantized:heralax/c... Gptq Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Cat-13B-0.5-GPTQ

Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Use Cases

Areas:

biology, clinical

Primary Use Cases:

roleplay, entertainment

Additional Notes

Trained without a fixed prompt template to enhance generalization.

Training Details

Data Sources:

chatDoctor, airoboros, bluemoonrp

Data Volume:

100k rows dataset

Methodology:

fine tuned on clinical data and roleplay and assistant responses

Context Length:

4096

Input Output

Input Format:

{prompt}

Release Notes

Version:

0.5

Notes:

Introduction of the model. Improved by incorporating clinical datasets alongside roleplay and assistant responses.

LLM Name	Cat 13B 0.5 GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Cat-13B-0.5-GPTQ
Model Name	Cat 13B 0.5
Model Creator	Evan Armstrong
Base Model(s)	Heralax/Cat-0.5 Heralax/Cat-0.5
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	7.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	7.3 GB
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama2
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.34.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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