What are the hardware requirements for Emerald 8B?

Emerald 8B requires approximately 16.8 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 Emerald 8B and how large is it?

Emerald 8B is developed by hardlyworking, a model with 8b 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 Emerald 8B?

Emerald 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Emerald 8B by hardlyworking — VRAM 16.8GB, 8K context

Name: Emerald 8B
Author: hardlyworking

Emerald 8B is an open-source language model by hardlyworking. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.8GB, Context: 8K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2402.01306 Axolotl Base model:finetune:fourohfour... Base model:fourohfour/fatgirl ... Conversational Endpoints compatible Generated from trainer Kto Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Trl

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/hardlyworking/Emerald-8B

Emerald 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Emerald 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/hardlyworking/Emerald-8B
Model Name	Emerald-8B
Base Model(s)	Fatgirl V2 8B FourOhFour/Fatgirl_v2_8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	hardlyworking
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 2.0 GB: 4-of-4 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.51.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
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Multi-Language Support and Translation

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