What are the hardware requirements for Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ?

Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ requires approximately 10.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 10K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ and how large is it?

Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 20b 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 Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ?

Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 10.9GB, 10K context

Name: Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ
Author: TheBloke

Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 20b LLM, VRAM: 10.9GB, Context: 10K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

4-bit Awq Base model:ddh0/norocetacean-2... Base model:quantized:ddh0/noro... Custom code Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Norocetacean-20B-10k-AWQ

Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama, text-generation

Additional Notes

This model uses AWQ for efficient low-bit weight quantization, supporting 4-bit quantization for faster Transformers-based inference. It is currently supported on Linux and Windows, with NVidia GPUs.

Input Output

Input Format:

Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: {prompt} ### Response:

LLM Name	Norocetacean 20B 10K AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Norocetacean-20B-10k-AWQ
Model Name	Norocetacean 20B 10K
Model Creator	ddh0
Base Model(s)	Norocetacean 20B 10K ddh0/Norocetacean-20b-10k
Model Size	20b
Required VRAM	10.9 GB
Updated	2026-06-30
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.9 GB: 2-of-2
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	10240
Model Max Length	10240
Transformers Version	4.37.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	[PAD]
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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