What are the hardware requirements for Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ?

Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ requires approximately 6.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ and how large is it?

Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 12b 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 Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ?

Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ by TheBloke — VRAM 6.9GB, 2K context

Name: Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ
Author: TheBloke

Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 6.9GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

4-bit Base model:merlynmind/merlyn-e... Base model:quantized:merlynmin... Education Gpt neox Gptq Merlynmind Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/merlyn-education-safety-GPTQ

Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

gptneox

Additional Notes

The model is designed for educational domains to classify queries as appropriate or inappropriate for classroom discussions.

Input Output

Input Format:

Instruction:\t{system_message} Message:{prompt} Response:

LLM Name	Merlyn Education Safety GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/merlyn-education-safety-GPTQ
Model Name	Merlyn Education Safety 12B
Model Creator	Merlyn Mind
Base Model(s)	Merlyn Education Safety MerlynMind/merlyn-education-safety
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	6.9 GB
Updated	2026-06-25
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	gpt_neox
Model Files	6.9 GB
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	GPTNeoXForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.35.0
Tokenizer Class	GPTNeoXTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	50688
Torch Data Type	float16

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