What are the hardware requirements for Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized?

Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized requires approximately 1.1 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 Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized and how large is it?

Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized is developed by kousw, 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 Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized?

Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized by kousw — VRAM 1.1GB, 2K context

Name: Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized
Author: kousw

Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized is an open-source language model by kousw. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 1.1GB, Context: 2K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kousw/bitnet_b1_58-3B_quantized

Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized Parameters and Internals

Model Type

quantized

Additional Notes

The quantized model achieves similar performance (PPL) as the original by using the same weights during execution.

Input Output

Input Format:

text input

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text output

LLM Name	Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kousw/bitnet_b1_58-3B_quantized
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	1.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-13
Maintainer	kousw
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.1 GB
Model Architecture	BitnetForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.39.2
Tokenizer Class	BitnetTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	32002
Torch Data Type	float16

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