What are the hardware requirements for MicroLlama?

MicroLlama requires approximately 1.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MicroLlama and how large is it?

MicroLlama is developed by keeeeenw, a model with 627b 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 MicroLlama?

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

MicroLlama by keeeeenw — VRAM 1.2GB, 2K context

Name: MicroLlama
Author: keeeeenw

MicroLlama is an open-source language model by keeeeenw. Features: 627b LLM, VRAM: 1.2GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Arxiv:2401.02385 Dataset:cerebras/slimpajama-62... Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/keeeeenw/MicroLlama

MicroLlama Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

Project evolved from TinyLlama; a smaller model setup was developed to fit budget and resource constraints.

Supported Languages

en (NLP)

Training Details

Data Sources:

cerebras/SlimPajama-627B

Data Volume:

50B tokens

Context Length:

2048

Hardware Used:

4 x Nvidia 4090

Model Architecture:

block_size=2048, vocab_size=32000, padding_multiple=64, n_layer=12, n_head=16, n_embd=1024, rotary_percentage=1.0, parallel_residual=False, bias=False, _norm_class="FusedRMSNorm", norm_eps=1e-5, _mlp_class="LLaMAMLP", intermediate_size=5632, n_query_groups=4

LLM Name	MicroLlama
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/keeeeenw/MicroLlama
Model Size	627b
Required VRAM	1.2 GB
Updated	2026-04-23
Maintainer	keeeeenw
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.39.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float32

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

Quantized Models of the MicroLlama

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...llama Python Instruct 0.3 4bit	0	5	0 GB

Best Alternatives to MicroLlama

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
TinyLlama V1.1	2K / 4.4 GB	36667	112
CroissantLLMBase	2K / 5.4 GB	1012	36
...Llama 1.1B 1.5T OpenOrca Alpha	2K / 2.2 GB	60	4
TinyLlama 1.1B 1T OpenOrca	2K / 2.2 GB	84	7
TinyLlama V1.1 Math Code	2K / 4.4 GB	76	15
TinyLlama V1.1 Chinese	2K / 4.4 GB	56	15
...inyLlama 1.1B 1T OpenOrca GPTQ	2K / 0.8 GB	9	2
TinyLlama 1.1B 1T OpenOrca AWQ	2K / 0.8 GB	4	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than keeeeenw/MicroLlama.