What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft?

Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft requires approximately 30.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft and how large is it?

Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft is developed by elinas, a model with 15b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft has the following published scores: MMLU 67.71. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft by elinas — VRAM 30.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft
Author: elinas

Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft is an open-source language model by elinas. Features: 15b LLM, VRAM: 30.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 60.8, HellaSwag: 78.9, MMLU: 67.7, GSM8K: 71.6.

Base model:elinas/llama-3-15b-... Base model:finetune:elinas/lla... Conversational Dataset:chat-error/pure-dove-s... Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Merge Mergekit Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/elinas/Llama-3-15B-Instruct-zeroed-ft

Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, language model

Additional Notes

Experiment aimed at stabilizing the model post fine-tuning with potential for continued fine-tuning.

Training Details

Data Sources:

Chat-Error/Pure-dove-sharegpt

Methodology:

QLoRA finetuning on a zeroed passthrough merge of pre-trained language models.

Context Length:

8192

Training Time:

2h 30m

Hardware Used:

3x3090 GPUs

LLM Name	Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/elinas/Llama-3-15B-Instruct-zeroed-ft
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed elinas/Llama-3-15B-Instruct-zeroed
Model Size	15b
Required VRAM	30.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	elinas
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-7 5.0 GB: 2-of-7 4.9 GB: 3-of-7 5.0 GB: 4-of-7 4.9 GB: 5-of-7 4.2 GB: 6-of-7 1.1 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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