What are the hardware requirements for Law Chat GGUF?

Law Chat GGUF requires approximately 2.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Law Chat GGUF and how large is it?

Law Chat GGUF is developed by TheBloke. 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 Law Chat GGUF?

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

Law Chat GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 2.8GB

Name: Law Chat GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Law Chat GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: LLM, VRAM: 2.8GB, License: llama2, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Arxiv:2309.09530 Base model:adaptllm/law-chat Base model:quantized:adaptllm/... Dataset:eleutherai/pile Dataset:gair/lima Dataset:open-orca/openorca Dataset:wizardlm/wizardlm evol... En Gguf Instruct Legal Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/law-chat-GGUF

Law Chat GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama, text-generation

Additional Notes

This is a specialized chat model, adapted for the legal domain, from LLaMA-2-Chat-7B. It applies techniques from the 'Adapting Large Language Models via Reading Comprehension' paper.

Supported Languages

en (English)

Input Output

Input Format:

[INST] <> {system_message} <> {prompt} [/INST]

LLM Name	Law Chat GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/law-chat-GGUF
Model Name	Law Chat
Model Creator	AdaptLLM
Base Model(s)	Law Chat AdaptLLM/law-chat
Required VRAM	2.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.8 GB 3.6 GB 3.3 GB 3.0 GB 3.8 GB 4.1 GB 3.9 GB 4.7 GB 4.8 GB 4.7 GB 5.5 GB 7.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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