What are the hardware requirements for TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3 requires approximately 4.4 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 TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3 and how large is it?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3 is developed by TinyLlama, a model with 503b 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 TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3 by TinyLlama — VRAM 4.4GB, 2K context

Name: TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3
Author: TinyLlama

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3 is an open-source language model by TinyLlama. Features: 503b LLM, VRAM: 4.4GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Dataset:bigcode/starcoderdata Dataset:cerebras/slimpajama-62... Dataset:openassistant/oasst to... Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.3

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Chat, Text Generation

Additional Notes

TinyLlama can be easily integrated with projects based on Llama due to architectural and tokenizer similarities. It is optimized for efficiency with a compact size of 1.1 billion parameters.

Supported Languages

en (Proficient)

Training Details

Data Sources:

cerebras/SlimPajama-627B, bigcode/starcoderdata, OpenAssistant/oasst_top1_2023-08-25

Data Volume:

3 trillion tokens

Methodology:

Pretraining and finetuning

Training Time:

90 days estimated

Hardware Used:

16 A100-40G GPUs

Model Architecture:

Same as Llama 2

Input Output

Input Format:

chatml

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.3
Model Size	503b
Required VRAM	4.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-13
Maintainer	TinyLlama
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.4 GB 4.4 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.34.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	[PAD]
Vocabulary Size	32003
Torch Data Type	float32

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