What are the hardware requirements for Sea Lion 3B?

Sea Lion 3B requires approximately 6.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Sea Lion 3B and how large is it?

Sea Lion 3B is developed by aisingapore, 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 Sea Lion 3B?

Sea Lion 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Sea Lion 3B by aisingapore — VRAM 6.4GB

Name: Sea Lion 3B
Author: aisingapore

Sea Lion 3B is an open-source language model by aisingapore. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.4GB, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Arxiv:2101.09635 Autotrain compatible Custom code En Endpoints compatible Id Km Lo Mpt Ms My Region:us Safetensors Ta Th Tl Vi Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/aisingapore/sea-lion-3b

Sea Lion 3B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Decoder

Additional Notes

Model has not been aligned for safety. Users should perform their own safety fine-tuning.

Supported Languages

en (English), zh (Chinese), id (Indonesian), ms (Malay), tl (Filipino), my (Burmese), vi (Vietnamese), th (Thai), lo (Lao), km (Khmer), ta (Tamil)

Training Details

Data Sources:

RefinedWeb - English, mC4 - Chinese, mC4 - Indonesian, mC4 - Malay, mC4 - Filipino, mC4 - Burmese, mC4 - Vietnamese, mC4 - Thai, WangChanBERTa - Thai, mC4 - Lao, mC4 - Khmer, mC4 - Tamil, the Stack - Python, the Stack - Javascript, the Stack - Shell, the Stack - SQL, the Stack - Markdown, RedPajama - StackExchange, RedPajama - ArXiv

Data Volume:

980B tokens

Methodology:

Pretrained and instruct-tuned for SEA region

Context Length:

2048

Training Time:

14 days

Hardware Used:

AWS EC2 p4d.24xlarge, Nvidia A100 40GB GPU

Model Architecture:

MPT architecture

LLM Name	Sea Lion 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/aisingapore/sea-lion-3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.4 GB
Updated	2025-04-13
Maintainer	aisingapore
Model Type	mpt
Model Files	6.4 GB
Supported Languages	en zh id ms tl my vi th lo km ta
Model Architecture	MPTForCausalLM
License	mit
Transformers Version	4.34.1
Tokenizer Class	SEABPETokenizer
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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