What are the hardware requirements for Sapling 505M Base?

Sapling 505M Base requires approximately 2 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 Sapling 505M Base and how large is it?

Sapling 505M Base is developed by VinayRevanuru, a model with 505m 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 Sapling 505M Base?

Sapling 505M Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Sapling 505M Base by VinayRevanuru — VRAM 2GB, 2K context

Name: Sapling 505M Base
Author: VinayRevanuru

Sapling 505M Base is an open-source language model by VinayRevanuru. Features: 505m LLM, VRAM: 2GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Base-model Dataset:huggingfacefw/fineweb-... Dataset:huggingfacetb/smollm-c... En Endpoints compatible Pretrained-from-scratch Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Small-language-model

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/VinayRevanuru/Sapling-505M-Base

Sapling 505M Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Sapling 505M Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/VinayRevanuru/Sapling-505M-Base
Model Size	505m
Required VRAM	2 GB
Updated	2026-10-28
Maintainer	VinayRevanuru
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	2.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	32768
Torch Data Type	float32

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Sapling 505M SFT	2K / 2 GB	276	1
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