What are the hardware requirements for Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2?

Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 requires approximately 43.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 and how large is it?

Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 is developed by nkpz, a model with 22b 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 Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2?

Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 by nkpz — VRAM 43.7GB, 4K context

Name: Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2
Author: nkpz

Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 is an open-source language model by nkpz. Features: 22b LLM, VRAM: 43.7GB, Context: 4K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nkpz/llama2-22b-daydreamer-v2

Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

Trained further with a focus on reducing over-explanation and increasing versatility. Future improvements aim to enhance problem-solving without affecting output style.

Training Details

Data Sources:

airoboros v2 general data

Methodology:

Continued training for a couple more epochs focusing on reducing over-explanation tendencies.

LLM Name	Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nkpz/llama2-22b-daydreamer-v2
Model Size	22b
Required VRAM	43.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	nkpz
Model Type	llama
Model Files	9.8 GB: 1-of-5 10.0 GB: 2-of-5 9.9 GB: 3-of-5 9.9 GB: 4-of-5 4.1 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4098
Model Max Length	4098
Transformers Version	4.31.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
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Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 GGUF	1	166	9 GB
Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 GPTQ	8	8	12 GB
Llama2 22B Daydreamer V2 GGML	4	5	9 GB

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than nkpz/llama2-22b-daydreamer-v2.