What are the hardware requirements for Yi 6B AWQ?

Yi 6B AWQ requires approximately 3.9 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 6B AWQ and how large is it?

Yi 6B AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 6b 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 6B AWQ?

Yi 6B AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 6B AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 3.9GB, 4K context

Name: Yi 6B AWQ
Author: TheBloke

Yi 6B AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 3.9GB, Context: 4K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

4-bit Awq Base model:01-ai/yi-6b Base model:quantized:01-ai/yi-... Custom code Quantized Region:us Safetensors Yi

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Yi-6B-AWQ

Yi 6B AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

Yi 6B supports 4K sequence length, extensible to 32K during inference. The Yi series models include both 6B and 34B parameter sizes, trained from scratch.

Supported Languages

English (bilingual), Chinese (bilingual)

LLM Name	Yi 6B AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Yi-6B-AWQ
Model Name	Yi 6B
Base Model(s)	Yi 6B 01-ai/Yi-6B
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	3.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-24
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	yi
Model Files	3.9 GB
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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