What are the hardware requirements for Falcon 7B Instruct?

Falcon 7B Instruct requires approximately 14.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Falcon 7B Instruct and how large is it?

Falcon 7B Instruct is developed by pcuenq, a model with 7b 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 Falcon 7B Instruct?

Falcon 7B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Falcon 7B Instruct by pcuenq — VRAM 14.4GB

Name: Falcon 7B Instruct
Author: pcuenq

Falcon 7B Instruct is an open-source language model by pcuenq. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 14.4GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.07.

Arxiv:1911.02150 Arxiv:2005.14165 Arxiv:2104.09864 Arxiv:2205.14135 Arxiv:2306.01116 Coreml Custom code Dataset:tiiuae/falcon-refinedw... En Endpoints compatible Instruct Pytorch Refinedwebmodel Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/pcuenq/falcon-7b-instruct

Falcon 7B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Causal decoder-only

Use Cases

Areas:

Research, Commercial applications

Primary Use Cases:

Chat, Instruct tasks

Limitations:

Limited generalization to non-English languages

Considerations:

Develop guardrails for production use.

Additional Notes

Training infrastructure utilized AWS SageMaker.

Supported Languages

en (Efficient), fr (Limited)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Bai ze, GPT4All, GPTeacher, RefinedWeb-English

Data Volume:

250M tokens

Methodology:

Finetuned on a mixture of chat/instruct datasets

Context Length:

2048

Hardware Used:

32 A100 40GB GPUs in P4d instances

Model Architecture:

Causal decoder-only model with optimized architecture including FlashAttention and multiquery.

Input Output

Accepted Modalities:

Text

Performance Tips:

Ensure adequate hardware and software versions for optimal performance.

LLM Name	Falcon 7B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/pcuenq/falcon-7b-instruct
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	14.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	pcuenq
Model Type	RefinedWebModel
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 4.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	RWForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.27.4
Is Biased	0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	65024
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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