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  Arxiv:1911.02150   Arxiv:2005.14165   Arxiv:2104.09864   Arxiv:2205.14135   4-bit   Autotrain compatible   Custom code Dataset:tiiuae/falcon-refinedw...   En   Gptq   Instruct   Quantized   Refinedweb   Region:us   Safetensors

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Falcon 40B Instruct GPTQ (TheBloke/falcon-40b-instruct-GPTQ)
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Falcon 40B Instruct GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
Causal decoder-only, Quantized model
Use Cases 
Areas:
Research, Personal use
Applications:
Chatbots, Customer service
Primary Use Cases:
Ready-to-use chat/instruct
Limitations:
Production use without risk assessment
Considerations:
Is mostly trained in English; does not generalize well to other languages
Supported Languages 
English (high proficiency), French (medium proficiency)
Training Details 
Data Sources:
Baize, RefinedWeb
Data Volume:
150M tokens
Methodology:
Finetuned from Falcon-7B
Context Length:
2048
Hardware Used:
64 A100 40GB GPUs
Model Architecture:
GPT-3 inspired with rotary embeddings, multiquery and FlashAttention
Safety Evaluation 
Risk Categories:
Bias, Stereotypes
Responsible Ai Considerations 
Fairness:
Contains stereotypes and biases from web corpora
Mitigation Strategies:
Develop guardrails and precautions for production use
Input Output 
Input Format:
Prompts using 'A helpful assistant' template
Accepted Modalities:
Text
Output Format:
Generated text responses
Performance Tips:
Very slow, expect around 0.7 tokens/s
Release Notes 
Version:
4bit GPTQ
Notes:
Quantised to 4bit using AutoGPTQ
LLM NameFalcon 40B Instruct GPTQ
Repository ๐Ÿค—https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/falcon-40b-instruct-GPTQ 
Base Model(s)  Medfalcon 40B Lora   nmitchko/medfalcon-40b-lora
Model Size40b
Required VRAM22.5 GB
Updated2025-08-21
MaintainerTheBloke
Model TypeRefinedWeb
Instruction-BasedYes
Model Files  22.5 GB
Supported Languagesen
GPTQ QuantizationYes
Quantization Typegptq
Model ArchitectureRWForCausalLM
Licenseapache-2.0
Model Max Length2048
Transformers Version4.29.2
Is Biased0
Tokenizer ClassPreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size65024
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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