What are the hardware requirements for OpenELM 450M?

OpenELM 450M requires approximately 1.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed OpenELM 450M and how large is it?

OpenELM 450M is developed by apple, a model with 450m 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 OpenELM 450M?

OpenELM 450M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

OpenELM 450M by apple — VRAM 1.8GB

Name: OpenELM 450M
Author: apple

OpenELM 450M is an open-source language model by apple. Features: 450m LLM, VRAM: 1.8GB, License: apple-amlr, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Arxiv:2404.14619 Custom code Openelm Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/apple/OpenELM-450M

OpenELM 450M Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Language Model

Additional Notes

The models were trained on public datasets with no safety guarantees, necessitating user-end safety testing and filtering.

Training Details

Data Sources:

RefinedWeb, deduplicated PILE, subset of RedPajama, subset of Dolma v1.6

Data Volume:

approximately 1.8 trillion tokens

Methodology:

layer-wise scaling strategy

LLM Name	OpenELM 450M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/apple/OpenELM-450M
Model Size	450m
Required VRAM	1.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	apple
Model Type	openelm
Model Files	1.8 GB
Model Architecture	OpenELMForCausalLM
License	apple-amlr
Transformers Version	4.39.3
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float32

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Text Generation
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Multi-Language Support and Translation

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OpenELM 450M Instruct	0K / 0.9 GB	798	50
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...450M Instruct Databaes SFT DPO	0K / 0.9 GB	5	0
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