What are the hardware requirements for Kw5 Lite Base?

Kw5 Lite Base requires approximately 0.4 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 Kw5 Lite Base and how large is it?

Kw5 Lite Base is developed by regnant-io. 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 Kw5 Lite Base?

Kw5 Lite Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kw5 Lite Base by regnant-io — VRAM 0.4GB, 2K context

Name: Kw5 Lite Base
Author: regnant-io

Kw5 Lite Base is an open-source language model by regnant-io. Features: LLM, VRAM: 0.4GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0.

Arxiv:2001.08361 Africa Base-model Conversational Dataset:custom-swahili-corpus Decoder-only Kenya Kiswahili Language-model Llama Low-resource Model-index Multilingual Pytorch Region:us Sw Swahili Tanzania

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/regnant-io/kw5-lite-base

Kw5 Lite Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kw5 Lite Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/regnant-io/kw5-lite-base
Required VRAM	0.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-23
Maintainer	regnant-io
Model Type	llama
Model Files	0.4 GB
Supported Languages	sw
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.36.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float32

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