What are the hardware requirements for Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT?

Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT requires approximately 6.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT and how large is it?

Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT is developed by Triangle104, a model with 3b 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 Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT?

Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT by Triangle104 — VRAM 6.4GB, 128K context

Name: Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT
Author: Triangle104

Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT is an open-source language model by Triangle104. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.4GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Merged Model Autotrain compatible Base model:nousresearch/hermes... Base model:prithivmlmods/llama... Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Triangle104/Hermes-Llama-3.2-CoT

Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Hermes Llama 3.2 CoT
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Triangle104/Hermes-Llama-3.2-CoT
Base Model(s)	NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B Llama Thinker 3B Preview2 NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B prithivMLmods/Llama-Thinker-3B-Preview2
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.4 GB
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	Triangle104
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.4 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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