What are the hardware requirements for LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts?

LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts requires approximately 6.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts and how large is it?

LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts is developed by qingy2024, 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 LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts?

LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts by qingy2024 — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts
Author: qingy2024

LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts is an open-source language model by qingy2024. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Base model:finetune:unsloth/ll... Base model:unsloth/llama-3.2-3... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Model-index Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/qingy2024/LLaMa_3.2_3B_Catalysts

LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LLaMa 3.2 3B Catalysts
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/qingy2024/LLaMa_3.2_3B_Catalysts
Base Model(s)	unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-06
Maintainer	qingy2024
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2 5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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