What are the hardware requirements for Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct?

Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct requires approximately 2.5 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 Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct and how large is it?

Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is developed by minions-stanford, a model with 1b 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 Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct?

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

Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct by minions-stanford — VRAM 2.5GB, 128K context

Name: Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Author: minions-stanford

Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is an open-source language model by minions-stanford. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/minions-stanford/minion-llama-3.2-1B-instruct

Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Minion Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/minions-stanford/minion-llama-3.2-1B-instruct
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	minions-stanford
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.5 GB: 1-of-1
Supported Languages	en de fr it pt hi es th
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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