What are the hardware requirements for IE Cont Llama3.1 8B?

IE Cont Llama3.1 8B requires approximately 16.1 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 IE Cont Llama3.1 8B and how large is it?

IE Cont Llama3.1 8B is developed by necva, 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 IE Cont Llama3.1 8B?

IE Cont Llama3.1 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

IE Cont Llama3.1 8B by necva — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: IE Cont Llama3.1 8B
Author: necva

IE Cont Llama3.1 8B is an open-source language model by necva. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Dataset:zjunlp/iepile En Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/necva/IE-cont-Llama3.1-8B

IE Cont Llama3.1 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	IE Cont Llama3.1 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/necva/IE-cont-Llama3.1-8B
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-03
Maintainer	necva
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4 32.1 GB 0.0 GB 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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