What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B?

Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B requires approximately 16 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B is developed by mpasila, a model with 8b 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 Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B?

Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B by mpasila — VRAM 16GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B
Author: mpasila

Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B is an open-source language model by mpasila. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Merged Model Base model:casual-autopsy/l3-u... Base model:undi95/meta-llama-3... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mpasila/Llama-3-Umbral-Mind-Instruct-8B

Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3 Umbral Mind Instruct 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mpasila/Llama-3-Umbral-Mind-Instruct-8B
Base Model(s)	Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf Casual-Autopsy/L3-Umbral-Mind-RP-v1.0-8B Undi95/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-hf Casual-Autopsy/L3-Umbral-Mind-RP-v1.0-8B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16 GB
Updated	2026-07-12
Maintainer	mpasila
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-5 3.9 GB: 2-of-5 3.9 GB: 3-of-5 3.9 GB: 4-of-5 0.3 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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