What are the hardware requirements for StarCoder Alpaca?

StarCoder Alpaca requires approximately 31 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed StarCoder Alpaca and how large is it?

StarCoder Alpaca is developed by V-YangXu. 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 StarCoder Alpaca?

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

StarCoder Alpaca by V-YangXu — VRAM 31GB

Name: StarCoder Alpaca
Author: V-YangXu

StarCoder Alpaca is an open-source language model by V-YangXu. Features: LLM, VRAM: 31GB, License: apache-2.0, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Codegen Endpoints compatible Gpt bigcode Pytorch Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/V-YangXu/StarCoder-Alpaca

StarCoder Alpaca Parameters and Internals

Training Details

Data Sources:

The Stack (v1.2)

Data Volume:

1 trillion tokens

Methodology:

Multi Query Attention, Fill-in-the-Middle objective

Context Length:

8192

LLM Name	StarCoder Alpaca
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/V-YangXu/StarCoder-Alpaca
Required VRAM	31 GB
Updated	2026-06-27
Maintainer	V-YangXu
Model Type	gpt_bigcode
Model Files	31.0 GB 0.0 GB
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	GPTBigCodeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	1024
Transformers Version	4.29.2
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	49153
Torch Data Type	float16
Activation Function	gelu

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