What are the hardware requirements for ArcANE 8B SFT?

ArcANE 8B SFT requires approximately 16.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed ArcANE 8B SFT and how large is it?

ArcANE 8B SFT is developed by holi-lab, 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 ArcANE 8B SFT?

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

ArcANE 8B SFT by holi-lab — VRAM 16.4GB, 40K context

Name: ArcANE 8B SFT
Author: holi-lab

ArcANE 8B SFT is an open-source language model by holi-lab. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.4GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Arxiv:2606.05553 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-8b Character Conversational Dataset:holi-lab/arcane-data En Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Role-playing Safetensors Sft Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/holi-lab/ArcANE-8B-SFT

ArcANE 8B SFT Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	ArcANE 8B SFT
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/holi-lab/ArcANE-8B-SFT
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 8B Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.4 GB
Updated	2026-09-06
Maintainer	holi-lab
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 1.6 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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