What are the hardware requirements for Small 1B Pretrain?

Small 1B Pretrain requires approximately 2.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Small 1B Pretrain and how large is it?

Small 1B Pretrain is developed by kenpeter123, a model with 1b 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 Small 1B Pretrain?

Small 1B Pretrain is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Small 1B Pretrain by kenpeter123 — VRAM 2.1GB, 8K context

Name: Small 1B Pretrain
Author: kenpeter123

Small 1B Pretrain is an open-source language model by kenpeter123. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.1GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

Base-model Base model:finetune:huggingfac... Base model:huggingfacetb/smoll... En Endpoints compatible Llama Pretrained Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kenpeter123/small-1b-pretrain

Small 1B Pretrain Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Small 1B Pretrain
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kenpeter123/small-1b-pretrain
Base Model(s)	SmolLM2 135M HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-21
Maintainer	kenpeter123
Model Type	llama
Model Files	6.2 GB 6.2 GB 2.1 GB 2.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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