What are the hardware requirements for Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B?

Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B requires approximately 7.6 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 Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B and how large is it?

Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B is developed by dbands, a model with 16b 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 Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B?

Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B by dbands — VRAM 7.6GB, 128K context

Name: Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B
Author: dbands

Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B is an open-source language model by dbands. Features: 16b LLM, VRAM: 7.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Advanced analytics Base model:dbands/phi-3.5-mini... Base model:finetune:dbands/phi... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Research Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/dbands/Phi-3.5-mini-investigator_16B

Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation-inference, transformers

Additional Notes

Finetuned with dbands/Phi-3.5-mini-investigator_16B.

Training Details

Methodology:

This llama model was trained 2x faster with Unsloth and Huggingface's TRL library.

LLM Name	Phi 3.5 Mini Investigator 16B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/dbands/Phi-3.5-mini-investigator_16B
Base Model(s)	dbands/Phi-3.5-mini-investigator_16B dbands/Phi-3.5-mini-investigator_16B
Model Size	16b
Required VRAM	7.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	dbands
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 2.6 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|placeholder6\|>
Vocabulary Size	32064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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