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Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct is an open-source language model by meta-llama. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Instruction-Based, HF Score: 66.9, LLM Explorer Score: 0.39, Arc: 60.8, HellaSwag: 78.6, MMLU: 67.1, TruthfulQA: 51.7, WinoGrande: 74.5, GSM8K: 68.7.

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Model Type 
text generation, dialogue optimization
Use Cases 
Areas:
research, commercial applications
Applications:
assistant-like chat, natural language generation
Primary Use Cases:
Instruction tuned for chat-oriented tasks, Pretrained model adaptation
Limitations:
English language focus
Considerations:
Follow Responsible Use Guide and implement safety tools.
Additional Notes 
Developed with openness, inclusivity, and helpfulness in mind.
Supported Languages 
English (Fluent)
Training Details 
Data Sources:
publicly available online data
Data Volume:
15 trillion tokens
Methodology:
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF)
Context Length:
8000
Training Time:
7.7 million GPU hours
Hardware Used:
H100-80GB GPUs
Model Architecture:
Auto-regressive transformer
Safety Evaluation 
Methodologies:
red-teaming, adversarial evaluations
Findings:
Improved safety measures than previous versions
Risk Categories:
misinformation, cybersecurity, child safety
Ethical Considerations:
Ensures transparency and responsibility in deployment.
Responsible Ai Considerations 
Fairness:
Developers are encouraged to implement safety tools and assess risks.
Transparency:
Open source tooling and contribution encouraged.
Accountability:
Meta provides safety benchmarks and regular updates.
Mitigation Strategies:
Implement safeguards using Meta Llama Guard.
Input Output 
Input Format:
Text input
Accepted Modalities:
text
Output Format:
Generates text and code
Performance Tips:
Use specified transformers libraries for enhanced performance.
Release Notes 
Version:
3.1
Date:
April 18, 2024
Notes:
Introduced new variants with fine-tuning optimizations.
LLM NameMeta Llama 3 8B Instruct
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct 
Model Size8b
Required VRAM16.1 GB
Updated2026-04-23
Maintainermeta-llama
Model Typellama
Instruction-BasedYes
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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