Granite Guardian 3.0 8B by ibm-granite

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Granite Guardian 3.0 8B is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.4GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

  Arxiv:2412.07724   Conversational   En   Endpoints compatible   Granite   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow

Granite Guardian 3.0 8B Benchmarks

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Granite Guardian 3.0 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM NameGranite Guardian 3.0 8B
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-3.0-8b 
Model Size8b
Required VRAM16.4 GB
Updated2026-05-22
Maintaineribm-granite
Model Typegranite
Model Files  5.0 GB: 1-of-4   5.0 GB: 2-of-4   5.0 GB: 3-of-4   1.4 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languagesen
Model ArchitectureGraniteForCausalLM
Licenseapache-2.0
Context Length8192
Model Max Length8192
Transformers Version4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer ClassGPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token<|end_of_text|>
Vocabulary Size49155
Torch Data Typebfloat16
Errorsreplace

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