What are the hardware requirements for Shed Coder 0.5?

Shed Coder 0.5 requires approximately 9.9 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 Shed Coder 0.5 and how large is it?

Shed Coder 0.5 is developed by VortexHunter23, a model with 8.4b 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 Shed Coder 0.5?

Shed Coder 0.5 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Shed Coder 0.5 by VortexHunter23 — VRAM 9.9GB, 128K context

Name: Shed Coder 0.5
Author: VortexHunter23

Shed Coder 0.5 is an open-source language model by VortexHunter23. Features: 8.4b LLM, VRAM: 9.9GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

4-bit Base model:quantized:vortexhun... Base model:vortexhunter23/shed... Bitsandbytes Codegen Conversational En Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sft Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/VortexHunter23/Shed-Coder-0.5

Shed Coder 0.5 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Shed Coder 0.5
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/VortexHunter23/Shed-Coder-0.5
Base Model(s)	VortexHunter23/Shed-Coder-0.4 VortexHunter23/Shed-Coder-0.4
Model Size	8.4b
Required VRAM	9.9 GB
Updated	2025-12-04
Maintainer	VortexHunter23
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.9 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|vision_pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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LeoPARD Coder 0.2	128K / 9.9 GB	7	0

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