What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules?

Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules requires approximately 4.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules and how large is it?

Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules is developed by mergekit-community, a model with 2b 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 Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules?

Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules by mergekit-community — VRAM 4.3GB, 128K context

Name: Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules
Author: mergekit-community

Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules is an open-source language model by mergekit-community. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 4.3GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Merged Model Autotrain compatible Base model:cognitivecomputatio... Base model:m4-ai/hercules-5.0-... Conversational Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mergekit-community/Qwen2-2B-Dolphin-Hercules

Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules Parameters and Internals

Model Type

merge

Additional Notes

This is a merge of pre-trained language models created using mergekit.

Training Details

Methodology:

Passthrough merge method

LLM Name	Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mergekit-community/Qwen2-2B-Dolphin-Hercules
Base Model(s)	M4-ai/Hercules-5.0-Qwen2-1.5B cognitivecomputations/dolphin-2.9.3-qwen2-1.5b M4-ai/Hercules-5.0-Qwen2-1.5B cognitivecomputations/dolphin-2.9.3-qwen2-1.5b
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	4.3 GB
Updated	2025-09-14
Maintainer	mergekit-community
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	4.3 GB: 1-of-1
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.42.4
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Qwen2 2B Dolphin Hercules

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Deepseek Qwen Modelstock 2B	128K / 3.5 GB	8	0
OpenRHO 2B Thinker	128K / 3.5 GB	7	2
Qwen2 2B RepleteCoder Hercules	128K / 4.3 GB	5	1
Qwen2 2B Dolphin RepleteCoder	128K / 4.3 GB	6	0
Qwen2 2B RepleteCoder Upscaled	128K / 4.3 GB	5	0
Qwen2.5 2B Instruct	32K / 5.9 GB	12	1
Carrot Ko 2B Instruct	32K / 4.2 GB	17	1
Qwen2 Math 2B Instruct	4K / 4.3 GB	5	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mergekit-community/Qwen2-2B-Dolphin-Hercules.