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

Norocetacean 20B 10K GPTQ requires approximately 10.5 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 GPTQ and how large is it?

Norocetacean 20B 10K GPTQ 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 GPTQ?

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

Norocetacean 20B 10K GPTQ by TheBloke — VRAM 10.5GB, 10K context

Name: Norocetacean 20B 10K GPTQ
Author: TheBloke

Norocetacean 20B 10K GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 20b LLM, VRAM: 10.5GB, Context: 10K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

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

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

Norocetacean 20B 10K GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

This model is a merge of Psyonic-Cetacean-20B with a no_robots-alpaca LoRA and has been extended to 10240 context length using YaRN. The overall goal was to blend unique aspects of the two underlying datasets while enhancing capability for long context interactions.

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 GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Norocetacean-20B-10k-GPTQ
Model Name	Norocetacean 20B 10K
Model Creator	ddh0
Base Model(s)	Norocetacean 20B 10K ddh0/Norocetacean-20b-10k
Model Size	20b
Required VRAM	10.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.5 GB
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
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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