What are the hardware requirements for NEARCoder 3B?

NEARCoder 3B requires approximately 6.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed NEARCoder 3B and how large is it?

NEARCoder 3B is developed by jcarbonnell, a model with 3b 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 NEARCoder 3B?

NEARCoder 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

NEARCoder 3B by jcarbonnell — VRAM 6.1GB, 16K context

Name: NEARCoder 3B
Author: jcarbonnell

NEARCoder 3B is an open-source language model by jcarbonnell. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.1GB, Context: 16K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Autotrain Autotrain compatible Conversational Dataset:jcarbonnell/astcodenea... Endpoints compatible Peft Region:us Safetensors Sharded Starcoder2 Tensorboard Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/jcarbonnell/NEARCoder-3b

NEARCoder 3B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

This model was trained using AutoTrain.

LLM Name	NEARCoder 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/jcarbonnell/NEARCoder-3b
Base Model(s)	jcarbonnell/NEAR-structTunedStarCoder2 jcarbonnell/NEAR-structTunedStarCoder2
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.1 GB
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	jcarbonnell
Model Type	starcoder2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.1 GB: 2-of-2 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	Starcoder2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.41.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	float16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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Starcoder2 3B	16K / 12.1 GB	109597	220
Starcoder2 3b AutoRedteam	16K / 12.7 GB	5	0
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Mojo Starcoder2	16K / 6.4 GB	11	0
NEAR StructTunedStarcoder2	16K / 6.1 GB	7	0
NEAR PreTrainedStarCoder2	16K / 6.1 GB	5	0
Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits	16K / 3.2 GB	5	0
Starcoder2 3B Instruct	16K / 6.1 GB	81	5
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Opencsg Starcoder2 3B V0.1	16K / 6.4 GB	6	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than jcarbonnell/NEARCoder-3b.