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Swallow 13B GGUF by TheBloke

By TheBloke · 278 downloads

Swallow 13B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.5GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Base model:quantized:tokyotech... Base model:tokyotech-llm/swall...   En   Gguf   Ja   Llama   Quantized   Region:us

Swallow 13B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
llama
Supported Languages 
en (English), ja (Japanese)
Training Details 
Data Sources:
Japanese Wikipedia, RefinedWeb, Swallow Corpus, The Pile
Methodology:
Continuous pre-training from Llama 2 with added Japanese language data and supervised fine-tuning for tuned versions.
Model Architecture:
Refer to LLaMA-2 technical report
LLM NameSwallow 13B GGUF
Repository πŸ€—https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Swallow-13B-GGUF 
Model NameSwallow 13B
Model Creatortokyotech-llm
Base Model(s)  Swallow 13B Hf   tokyotech-llm/Swallow-13b-hf
Model Size13b
Required VRAM5.5 GB
Updated2026-08-02
MaintainerTheBloke
Model Typellama
Model Files  5.5 GB   7.0 GB   6.4 GB   5.7 GB   7.5 GB   8.0 GB   7.5 GB   9.1 GB   9.3 GB   9.1 GB   10.8 GB   14.0 GB
Supported Languagesen ja
GGUF QuantizationYes
Quantization Typegguf
Model ArchitectureAutoModel
Licensellama2

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