What are the hardware requirements for Swallow 13B GPTQ?

Swallow 13B GPTQ requires approximately 7.5 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 Swallow 13B GPTQ and how large is it?

Swallow 13B 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 Swallow 13B GPTQ?

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

Swallow 13B GPTQ by TheBloke — VRAM 7.5GB, 4K context

Name: Swallow 13B GPTQ
Author: TheBloke

Swallow 13B GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 7.5GB, Context: 4K, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

4-bit Base model:quantized:tokyotech... Base model:tokyotech-llm/swall... En Gptq Ja Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

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

Swallow 13B GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

Research, Text generation

Limitations:

The model has not been fully aligned with human intent and safety considerations.

Considerations:

Early stage of research. Outputs should be reviewed for alignment with safety standards.

Supported Languages

English (Fluent), Japanese (Fluent)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Japanese Wikipedia, RefinedWeb, Swallow Corpus, The Pile

Model Architecture:

Llama 2 architecture, adjusted for Japanese language data

Input Output

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	Swallow 13B GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Swallow-13B-GPTQ
Model Name	Swallow 13B
Model Creator	tokyotech-llm
Base Model(s)	Swallow 13B Hf tokyotech-llm/Swallow-13b-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	7.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	7.5 GB
Supported Languages	en ja
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	LLaMAForCausalLM
License	llama2
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.35.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	43176
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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