What are the hardware requirements for Orca Mini 3B?

Orca Mini 3B requires approximately 13.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Orca Mini 3B and how large is it?

Orca Mini 3B is developed by pankajmathur, a model with 3b 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 Orca Mini 3B?

Orca Mini 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Orca Mini 3B by pankajmathur — VRAM 13.7GB, 2K context

Name: Orca Mini 3B
Author: pankajmathur

Orca Mini 3B is an open-source language model by pankajmathur. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 13.7GB, Context: 2K, License: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Arxiv:2306.02707 Dataset:psmathur/alpaca orca Dataset:psmathur/dolly-v2 orca Dataset:psmathur/wizardlm orca Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Llama Model-index Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/pankajmathur/orca_mini_3b

Orca Mini 3B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Additional Notes

This model can produce factually incorrect output and is not reliable for accurate information generation.

Training Details

Data Sources:

WizardLM dataset ~70K, Alpaca dataset ~52K, Dolly-V2 dataset ~15K

Methodology:

Explain tuned datasets, with instructions and input from WizardLM, Alpaca & Dolly-V2 datasets and applying Orca Research Paper dataset construction approaches.

Context Length:

1024

Training Time:

4 Hours on 8x A100(80G) GPUs

Hardware Used:

8x A100(80G) GPUs

Model Architecture:

Derived from OpenLLaMa-3B

LLM Name	Orca Mini 3b
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/pankajmathur/orca_mini_3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	13.7 GB
Updated	2026-05-24
Maintainer	pankajmathur
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 3.7 GB: 3-of-3 5.0 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 3.7 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.29.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float32

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