SmolLM 1.7B Instruct 8bit by mlx-community

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SmolLM 1.7B Instruct 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 1.8GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

  8bit   Conversational   En   Endpoints compatible   Instruct   Llama   Mlx   Quantized   Region:us   Safetensors

SmolLM 1.7B Instruct 8bit Benchmarks

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SmolLM 1.7B Instruct 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM NameSmolLM 1.7B Instruct 8bit
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-8bit 
Model Size1.7b
Required VRAM1.8 GB
Updated2026-05-25
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typellama
Instruction-BasedYes
Model Files  1.8 GB
Supported Languagesen
Quantization Type8bit
Model ArchitectureLlamaForCausalLM
Licenseapache-2.0
Context Length2048
Model Max Length2048
Transformers Version4.42.3
Tokenizer ClassGPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token<|im_end|>
Vocabulary Size49152
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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