What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct?

Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct is developed by prithivMLmods, a model with 1.5b 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 Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct?

Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct by prithivMLmods — VRAM 3.5GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct
Author: prithivMLmods

Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct is an open-source language model by prithivMLmods. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 32K, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Merged Model Arxiv:2306.01708 Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-1.5b Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-1.5b-i... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/prithivMLmods/Qwen2.5-1.5B-DeepSeek-R1-Instruct

Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 1.5B DeepSeek R1 Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/prithivMLmods/Qwen2.5-1.5B-DeepSeek-R1-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	prithivMLmods
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.5 GB: 1-of-1
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.48.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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