What are the hardware requirements for Yi 34B AWQ?

Yi 34B AWQ requires approximately 19.3 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 Yi 34B AWQ and how large is it?

Yi 34B AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 34b 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 Yi 34B AWQ?

Yi 34B AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 34B AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 19.3GB, 4K context

Name: Yi 34B AWQ
Author: TheBloke

Yi 34B AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 34b LLM, VRAM: 19.3GB, Context: 4K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

4-bit Awq Base model:01-ai/yi-34b Base model:quantized:01-ai/yi-... Custom code Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Yi

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Yi-34B-AWQ

Yi 34B AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

The model was quantized using hardware provided by Massed Compute for optimized performance.

Input Output

Input Format:

Human: {prompt} Assistant:

LLM Name	Yi 34B AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Yi-34B-AWQ
Model Name	Yi 34B
Model Creator	01-ai
Base Model(s)	Yi 34B 01-ai/Yi-34B
Model Size	34b
Required VRAM	19.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	yi
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 9.3 GB: 2-of-2
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	YiForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.35.0
Tokenizer Class	YiTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	float16

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