What are the hardware requirements for Medicine LLM 13B GGUF?

Medicine LLM 13B GGUF requires approximately 5.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Medicine LLM 13B GGUF and how large is it?

Medicine LLM 13B GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 13b 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 Medicine LLM 13B GGUF?

Medicine LLM 13B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Medicine LLM 13B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 5.4GB

Name: Medicine LLM 13B GGUF
Rating: 1 (2 reviews)
Author: TheBloke

Medicine LLM 13B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Arxiv:2309.09530 Base model:adaptllm/medicine-l... Base model:quantized:adaptllm/... Biology Dataset:eleutherai/pile Dataset:gair/lima Dataset:open-orca/openorca Dataset:wizardlm/wizardlm evol... En Gguf Instruct Llama Medical Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/medicine-LLM-13B-GGUF

Medicine LLM 13B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama, text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

biology, medical

Additional Notes

While the approach enriches LLMs with domain knowledge, it can hurt their prompting ability for question answering.

Supported Languages

en (proficient)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Open-Orca/OpenOrca, GAIR/lima, WizardLM/WizardLM_evol_instruct_V2_196k, EleutherAI/pile

Methodology:

Continued pre-training on domain-specific corpora transformed into reading comprehension texts

Input Output

Input Format:

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

Accepted Modalities:

text

LLM Name	Medicine LLM 13B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/medicine-LLM-13B-GGUF
Model Name	Medicine LLM 13B
Model Creator	AdaptLLM
Base Model(s)	Medicine LLM 13B AdaptLLM/medicine-LLM-13B
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-11
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.4 GB 6.9 GB 6.3 GB 5.7 GB 7.4 GB 7.9 GB 7.4 GB 9.0 GB 9.2 GB 9.0 GB 10.7 GB 13.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	other

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