Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 4bit by mlx-community

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Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 4.5GB, Context: 256K, License: llama3, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

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Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 4bit Benchmarks

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Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 4bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
text-generation
Supported Languages 
en (Supported)
LLM NameLlama 3 8B Instruct 262K 4bit
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-262k-4bit 
Base Model(s)  ...ama 3 8B Instruct 262K Chinese   shibing624/llama-3-8b-instruct-262k-chinese
Model Size8b
Required VRAM4.5 GB
Updated2026-04-01
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typellama
Instruction-BasedYes
Model Files  4.5 GB
Supported Languagesen
Quantization Type4bit
Model ArchitectureLlamaForCausalLM
Licensellama3
Context Length262144
Model Max Length262144
Transformers Version4.41.0.dev0
Tokenizer ClassPreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size128256
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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