What are the hardware requirements for Swallow 13B Instruct GGUF?

Swallow 13B Instruct GGUF requires approximately 5.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Swallow 13B Instruct GGUF and how large is it?

Swallow 13B Instruct GGUF 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 Instruct GGUF?

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

Swallow 13B Instruct GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 5.5GB

Name: Swallow 13B Instruct GGUF
Author: TheBloke

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

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

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

Swallow 13B Instruct GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Limitations:

Models are still in the early stages and have not been tuned to ensure outputs align with human intent and safety considerations.

Additional Notes

The Swallow model includes continuous pre-training from the Llama 2 family and is especially optimized for Japanese language tasks.

Supported Languages

en (English), ja (Japanese)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Japanese Wikipedia, RefinedWeb, Swallow Corpus, The Pile

Methodology:

The tuned versions use supervised fine-tuning (SFT)

Model Architecture:

Refer to LLaMA-2 technical report for details on the model architecture.

Responsible Ai Considerations

Mitigation Strategies:

These models have not been tuned to ensure outputs align with human intent and safety considerations.

LLM Name	Swallow 13B Instruct GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Swallow-13B-Instruct-GGUF
Model Name	Swallow 13B Instruct
Model Creator	tokyotech-llm
Base Model(s)	Swallow 13B Instruct Hf tokyotech-llm/Swallow-13b-instruct-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	5.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
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 Languages	en ja
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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