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Starcoder GPTQ by TheBloke

By TheBloke · 67 downloads

Starcoder GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 15.8b LLM, VRAM: 8.9GB, License: bigcode-openrail-m, Quantized, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.07.

  Arxiv:1911.02150   Arxiv:2205.14135   Arxiv:2207.14255   Arxiv:2305.06161   4-bit   Code   Codegen Dataset:bigcode/the-stack-dedu...   Gpt bigcode   Gptq   Model-index   Quantized   Region:us   Safetensors

Starcoder GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
text-generation
Use Cases 
Primary Use Cases:
Technical assistant with Tech Assistant prompt
Limitations:
The model is not an instruction model; commands like 'Write a function that computes the square root.' do not work well.
Additional Notes 
The model was trained on GitHub code and is primarily designed for code generation, not general text generation.
Supported Languages 
languages_and_proficiency_levels (>80 programming languages)
Training Details 
Data Sources:
The Stack (v1.2) with opt-out requests excluded
Data Volume:
1 trillion tokens
Methodology:
Fill-in-the-Middle objective, Multi Query Attention
Context Length:
8192
Training Time:
24 days
Hardware Used:
512 Tesla A100
Model Architecture:
GPT-2 model with multi-query attention and Fill-in-the-Middle objective
Input Output 
Input Format:
Token sequence input
Accepted Modalities:
text
Output Format:
Token sequence output
Performance Tips:
Use the Tech Assistant prompt for better results.
LLM NameStarcoder GPTQ
Repository πŸ€—https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/starcoder-GPTQ 
Model Size15.8b
Required VRAM8.9 GB
Updated2026-07-27
MaintainerTheBloke
Model Typegpt_bigcode
Model Files  8.9 GB
GPTQ QuantizationYes
Quantization Typegptq
Generates CodeYes
Model ArchitectureGPTBigCodeForCausalLM
Licensebigcode-openrail-m
Transformers Version4.28.1
Tokenizer ClassGPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size49152
Torch Data Typefloat32
Activation Functiongelu

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