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Meta Llama 3 8B is an open-source language model by meta-llama. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, HF Score: 62.4, LLM Explorer Score: 0.4, Arc: 59.2, HellaSwag: 82, MMLU: 66.5, TruthfulQA: 44, WinoGrande: 77.1, GSM8K: 45.3.

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Meta Llama 3 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
text generation, multimodal
Use Cases 
Areas:
commercial use, research
Applications:
assistant-like chat, natural language generation
Primary Use Cases:
pretrained models adapted for various NLG tasks
Limitations:
Only tested in English, Not all scenarios addressed.
Considerations:
Developers can fine-tune Llama 3 for languages beyond English, compliance required.
Additional Notes 
Some trade-off between model helpfulness and alignment likely unavoidable.
Supported Languages 
English (Primary)
Training Details 
Data Sources:
publicly available online data
Data Volume:
15 trillion tokens
Methodology:
auto-regressive transformer architecture, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF)
Context Length:
8000
Training Time:
7.7M GPU hours
Hardware Used:
H100-80GB (TDP of 700W)
Model Architecture:
optimized transformer architecture
Safety Evaluation 
Methodologies:
red teaming, adversarial evaluations
Findings:
residual risks may remain
Risk Categories:
child safety risks, security risks, bias risks
Ethical Considerations:
Openness, inclusivity, and helpfulness valued.
Responsible Ai Considerations 
Fairness:
Consideration given to bias and fairness during development.
Transparency:
Safety evaluations and risk assessments detailed.
Accountability:
Developers advised to perform application-specific safety testing.
Mitigation Strategies:
Red teaming, adversarial evaluations, safety mitigations included.
Input Output 
Input Format:
text
Accepted Modalities:
text
Output Format:
text and code
Release Notes 
Version:
3.1-8B
Date:
2024-04-18
Notes:
Released with improved performance for dialogue use cases.
LLM NameMeta Llama 3 8B
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B 
Model Size8b
Required VRAM16.1 GB
Updated2026-04-10
Maintainermeta-llama
Model Typellama
Model Files  5.0 GB: 1-of-4   5.0 GB: 2-of-4   4.9 GB: 3-of-4   1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languagesen
Model ArchitectureLlamaForCausalLM
Licensellama3
Context Length8192
Model Max Length8192
Transformers Version4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer ClassPreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size128256
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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