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Granite 3.0 2B Instruct by ibm-granite

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Granite 3.0 2B Instruct is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 5.3GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.35, ELO: 1156.

  Arxiv:0000.00000 Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite...   Conversational   Granite   Granite-3.0   Instruct   Language   Model-index   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow

Granite 3.0 2B Instruct Benchmarks

nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

Granite 3.0 2B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
text-generation
Use Cases 
Areas:
Research, Commercial Applications
Applications:
AI assistants, Text classification, Summarization, Question Answering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Code-related tasks, Function-calling, Multilingual dialog
Primary Use Cases:
General instruction response
Limitations:
Performance may not match English tasks for multilingual dialog., Requires safety testing and tuning before deployment.
Considerations:
Use with proper safety measures; introduce few-shot examples for improved outputs.
Additional Notes 
User testing across selected domains recommended to ensure safety.
Supported Languages 
English (Proficient), German (Intermediate), Spanish (Intermediate), French (Intermediate), Japanese (Intermediate), Portuguese (Intermediate), Arabic (Intermediate), Czech (Intermediate), Italian (Intermediate), Korean (Intermediate), Dutch (Intermediate), Chinese (Intermediate)
Training Details 
Data Sources:
publicly available datasets with permissive license, internal synthetic data, human-curated data
Data Volume:
Not specified
Methodology:
Supervised finetuning, reinforcement learning for model alignment, model merging
Context Length:
4096
Training Time:
Not specified
Hardware Used:
IBM's super computing cluster, Blue Vela, with NVIDIA H100 GPUs
Model Architecture:
Decoder-only dense transformer architecture, including GQA, RoPE, MLP with SwiGLU, RMSNorm, and shared input/output embeddings
Safety Evaluation 
Ethical Considerations:
May produce inaccurate, biased, or unsafe responses. Usage requires proper safety testing and tuning.
Responsible Ai Considerations 
Fairness:
Aligned to ensure safety; however, multilingual performance might not match English task performance.
Transparency:
Open source with comprehensive documentation, paper, and technical report.
Accountability:
Granite Team, IBM
Mitigation Strategies:
Few-shot examples can improve multilingual capabilities.
Input Output 
Input Format:
Structured chat format with prompts
Accepted Modalities:
text
Output Format:
Generated text response
Performance Tips:
Fine-tuning with additional examples may improve specificity and accuracy.
Release Notes 
Version:
Granite-3.0-2B-Instruct
Date:
October 21st, 2024
Notes:
Model released with refined capabilities and aligned for structured instruction following.
LLM NameGranite 3.0 2B Instruct
Repository πŸ€—https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct 
Base Model(s)  ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-base   ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-base
Model Size2b
Required VRAM5.3 GB
Updated2026-07-28
Maintaineribm-granite
Model Typegranite
Instruction-BasedYes
Model Files  5.0 GB: 1-of-2   0.3 GB: 2-of-2
Model ArchitectureGraniteForCausalLM
Licenseapache-2.0
Context Length4096
Model Max Length4096
Transformers Version4.46.0.dev0
Tokenizer ClassGPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token<|end_of_text|>
Vocabulary Size49155
Torch Data Typebfloat16
Errorsreplace

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