What are the hardware requirements for Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML?

Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML requires approximately 2.9 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML and how large is it?

Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML 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 Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML?

Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML by TheBloke — VRAM 2.9GB

Name: Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML
Author: TheBloke

Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 2.9GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

Base model:finetune:nousresear... Base model:nousresearch/nous-h... Distillation En Ggml Llama Llama2 Quantized Region:us Self-instruct Synthetic instruction

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML

Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML Benchmarks

LLME Score: 0.08493

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML (TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML)

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Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

This model is fine-tuned for long responses, lower hallucination rate, and absence of OpenAI censorship mechanisms. The GGML format is deprecated and replaced by GGUF.

Training Details

Data Sources:

GPTeacher by Teknium, Wizard LM by nlpxucan, Nous Research Instruct Dataset by Karan4D and HueminArt, GPT4-LLM and Unnatural Instructions by Microsoft, Airoboros dataset by jondurbin, Camel-AI's domain expert datasets, CodeAlpaca dataset by Sahil 2801

Methodology:

Fine-tuned on over 300,000 instructions using synthetic GPT-4 outputs

Context Length:

4096

Hardware Used:

8x a100 80GB DGX machine

LLM Name	Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B GGML
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML
Model Name	Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B
Model Creator	NousResearch
Base Model(s)	Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-llama-2-7b
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	2.9 GB
Updated	2026-05-26
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.9 GB 3.6 GB 3.3 GB 3.0 GB 3.8 GB 4.2 GB 4.1 GB 3.8 GB 4.6 GB 5.1 GB 4.8 GB 4.7 GB 5.5 GB 7.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGML Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	ggml
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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