What are the hardware requirements for Minerva 1.5B?

Minerva 1.5B requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Minerva 1.5B and how large is it?

Minerva 1.5B is developed by Triangle104, a model with 1.5b 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 Minerva 1.5B?

Minerva 1.5B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Minerva 1.5B by Triangle104 — VRAM 3.5GB, 32K context

Name: Minerva 1.5B
Author: Triangle104

Minerva 1.5B is an open-source language model by Triangle104. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Merged Model Autotrain compatible Base model:eva-unit-01/eva-qwe... Base model:spestly/athena-1-1.... Conversational Endpoints compatible Model-index Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Triangle104/Minerva-1.5b

Minerva 1.5B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Minerva 1.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Triangle104/Minerva-1.5b
Base Model(s)	Spestly/Athena-1-1.5B EVA-UNIT-01/EVA-Qwen2.5-1.5B-v0.0 Spestly/Athena-1-1.5B EVA-UNIT-01/EVA-Qwen2.5-1.5B-v0.0
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2025-09-16
Maintainer	Triangle104
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.5 GB: 1-of-1
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.46.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|PAD_TOKEN\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Minerva 1.5B

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Qwen2.5 1.5B 1.3M Stretched	1280K / 3.1 GB	11	0
ReaderLM V2	500K / 3.1 GB	35356	804
Reader Lm 1.5B	250K / 3.1 GB	385	608
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B	128K / 3.5 GB	600051	1545
Ko R1 1.5B Preview	128K / 7.1 GB	8	9
Qwen2.5 1.5B	128K / 3.1 GB	863295	203
VibeThinker 1.5B	128K / 3.5 GB	3417	552
Merge Cord V1	128K / 3.1 GB	155	1
...FT Tulu3 Decontaminated Masked	128K / 3.1 GB	167	0
Qwen2 1.5B	128K / 3.1 GB	195380	102

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Triangle104/Minerva-1.5b.