What are the hardware requirements for Starlight Mini?

Starlight Mini requires approximately 15.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Starlight Mini and how large is it?

Starlight Mini is developed by arthu1, a model with 7.6b 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 Starlight Mini?

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

Starlight Mini by arthu1 — VRAM 15.2GB, 32K context

Name: Starlight Mini
Author: arthu1

Starlight Mini is an open-source language model by arthu1. Features: 7.6b LLM, VRAM: 15.2GB, Context: 32K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Base model:arthu1/astrocoder-s... Base model:finetune:arthu1/ast... Code Conversational Coolness Dataset:huggingfaceh4/ultracha... En Endpoints compatible North.ai Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/arthu1/starlight-mini

Starlight Mini Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Starlight Mini
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/arthu1/starlight-mini
Base Model(s)	arthu1/astrocoder-star-merge arthu1/astrocoder-star-merge
Model Size	7.6b
Required VRAM	15.2 GB
Updated	2026-05-24
Maintainer	arthu1
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.3 GB: 3-of-4 1.1 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|PAD_TOKEN\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Errors	replace

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