What are the hardware requirements for Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit?

Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit requires approximately 1.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit and how large is it?

Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3b 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 Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit?

Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 1.7GB

Name: Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 1.7GB, License: gemma, Quantized.

4bit Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Mlx Paligemma Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/paligemma2-3b-pt-896-4bit

Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Paligemma2 3B Pt 896 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/paligemma2-3b-pt-896-4bit
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	1.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	paligemma
Model Files	1.7 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	PaliGemmaForConditionalGeneration
License	gemma
Transformers Version	4.47.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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