What are the hardware requirements for Payo 0.8B Core Preview?

Payo 0.8B Core Preview requires approximately 0.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Payo 0.8B Core Preview and how large is it?

Payo 0.8B Core Preview is developed by paaya, a model with 0.8b 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 Payo 0.8B Core Preview?

Payo 0.8B Core Preview is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Payo 0.8B Core Preview by paaya — VRAM 0.1GB

Name: Payo 0.8B Core Preview
Author: paaya

Payo 0.8B Core Preview is an open-source language model by paaya. Features: 0.8b LLM, VRAM: 0.1GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Adapter Base model:adapter:qwen/qwen3.... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-0.8b-b... En Finetuned Lora Payo Peft Region:us Research-preview Safetensors State-delta Structured-output Structured-state-updates

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/paaya/Payo-0.8B-Core-Preview

Payo 0.8B Core Preview Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Payo 0.8B Core Preview
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/paaya/Payo-0.8B-Core-Preview
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base
Model Size	0.8b
Required VRAM	0.1 GB
Updated	2026-10-05
Maintainer	paaya
Model Files	0.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Adapter
License	apache-2.0
Is Biased	none
PEFT Type	LORA
LoRA Model	Yes
PEFT Target Modules	m\|o\|d\|e\|l\|\\|.\|l\|a\|y\|e\|r\|s\|\\|.\|\\|d\|+\|\\|.\|(\|?\|:\|s\|e\|l\|f\|_\|a\|t\|t\|n\|\\|.\|(\|?\|:\|q\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|\|\|k\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|\|\|v\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|\|\|o\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|)\|\|\|l\|i\|n\|e\|a\|r\|_\|a\|t\|t\|n\|\\|.\|(\|?\|:\|i\|n\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|_\|q\|k\|v\|\|\|i\|n\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|_\|z\|\|\|o\|u\|t\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|)\|\|\|m\|l\|p\|\\|.\|(\|?\|:\|g\|a\|t\|e\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|\|\|u\|p\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|\|\|d\|o\|w\|n\|_\|p\|r\|o\|j\|)\|)
LoRA Alpha	64
LoRA Dropout	0.05
R Param	32

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