What are the hardware requirements for Swallow 7B GGUF?

Swallow 7B GGUF requires approximately 2.9 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Swallow 7B GGUF and how large is it?

Swallow 7B GGUF 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 Swallow 7B GGUF?

Swallow 7B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Swallow 7B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 2.9GB

Name: Swallow 7B GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Swallow 7B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 2.9GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Swallow-7B-GGUF

Swallow 7B 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 Name	Swallow 7B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Swallow-7B-GGUF
Model Name	Swallow 7B
Model Creator	tokyotech-llm
Base Model(s)	Swallow 7B Hf tokyotech-llm/Swallow-7b-hf
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	2.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.9 GB 3.6 GB 3.4 GB 3.0 GB 3.9 GB 4.1 GB 3.9 GB 4.7 GB 4.8 GB 4.7 GB 5.6 GB 7.3 GB
Supported Languages	en ja
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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