What are the hardware requirements for SmolLM2 135M Instruct?

SmolLM2 135M Instruct requires approximately 0.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed SmolLM2 135M Instruct and how large is it?

SmolLM2 135M Instruct is developed by rishitavenkat2812, a model with 135m 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 SmolLM2 135M Instruct?

SmolLM2 135M Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

SmolLM2 135M Instruct by rishitavenkat2812 — VRAM 0.3GB, 8K context

Name: SmolLM2 135M Instruct
Author: rishitavenkat2812

SmolLM2 135M Instruct is an open-source language model by rishitavenkat2812. Features: 135m LLM, VRAM: 0.3GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Arxiv:2502.02737 Base model:huggingfacetb/smoll... Base model:quantized:huggingfa... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Onnx Region:us Safetensors Tensorboard Transformers.js

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/rishitavenkat2812/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct

SmolLM2 135M Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	SmolLM2 135M Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/rishitavenkat2812/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
Base Model(s)	SmolLM2 135M HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M
Model Size	135m
Required VRAM	0.3 GB
Updated	2026-09-28
Maintainer	rishitavenkat2812
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	0.3 GB 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.42.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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