What are the hardware requirements for Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409?

Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409 requires approximately 8.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409 and how large is it?

Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409 is developed by roskosmos19, a model with 4b 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 Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409?

Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409 by roskosmos19 — VRAM 8.1GB, 16K context

Name: Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409
Author: roskosmos19

Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409 is an open-source language model by roskosmos19. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.1GB, Context: 16K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

4b Conversational Dolphin Efficient Endpoints compatible Instruct Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/roskosmos19/Dolphin-4B-Instruct-0409

Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Dolphin 4B Instruct 0409
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/roskosmos19/Dolphin-4B-Instruct-0409
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.1 GB
Updated	2026-09-06
Maintainer	roskosmos19
Model Type	qwen3
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-3 4.0 GB: 2-of-3 0.1 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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