What are the hardware requirements for MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit?

MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit requires approximately 1.1 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 MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit and how large is it?

MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit is developed by nikimori, a model with 1b 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 MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit?

MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit by nikimori — VRAM 1.1GB, 128K context

Name: MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit
Author: nikimori

MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit is an open-source language model by nikimori. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 1.1GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nikimori/MiniCPM5-1B-Base-8bit

MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniCPM5 1B Base 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nikimori/MiniCPM5-1B-Base-8bit
Base Model(s)	MiniCPM5 1B Base openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B-Base
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	1.1 GB
Updated	2026-10-19
Maintainer	nikimori
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.1 GB
Supported Languages	en zh
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.6.2
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	130560
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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