What are the hardware requirements for Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen?

Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen requires approximately 4.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen and how large is it?

Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen is developed by azi111, a model with 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 Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen?

Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen by azi111 — VRAM 4.9GB, 4K context

Name: Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen
Author: azi111

Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen is an open-source language model by azi111. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 4.9GB, Context: 4K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Conversational Endpoints compatible Exl2 Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/azi111/Yi-6B-Chat-6bpw-h8-exl2-cnen

Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

The model is noted to have issues with Chinese input causing frequent gibberish output and incomplete responses. It also outputs OpenAI's copyright statement, which can be avoided by adjusting the custom system message. There is a temporary recommendation to use the Orca-Vicuna template for better results.

LLM Name	Yi 6B Chat 6bpw H8 EXL2 Cnen
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/azi111/Yi-6B-Chat-6bpw-h8-exl2-cnen
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	4.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	azi111
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.9 GB
Quantization Type	exl2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.35.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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