What are the hardware requirements for Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B?

Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B requires approximately 3.5 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 Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B and how large is it?

Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1.5b 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 Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B?

Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B by mlx-community — VRAM 3.5GB, 128K context

Name: Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
Author: mlx-community

Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 128K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:finetune:deepseek-a... Mlx Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b

Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Deepseek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b
Base Model(s)	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.5 GB
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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