What are the hardware requirements for Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1?

Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1 requires approximately 7.2 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 Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1 and how large is it?

Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1 is developed by mesolitica, 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 Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1?

Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1 by mesolitica — VRAM 7.2GB, 128K context

Name: Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1
Author: mesolitica

Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1 is an open-source language model by mesolitica. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 7.2GB, Context: 128K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mesolitica/Malaysian-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-v0.1

Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Malaysian Llama 3.2 3B Instruct V0.1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mesolitica/Malaysian-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-v0.1
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	7.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	mesolitica
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 2.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	ms en zh ta
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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